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International Handbook of Personality and Intelligence pp 727–737Cite as

Personality and Intelligence in the Military

The Case of War Heroes

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“How would I behave in a battle?” This, claims British military historian John Keegan (1976), is the central question for any young man training to be a professional soldier. The battlefield is one of the ultimate tests of what will triumph: the situation or the personality; the innate instincts or the acquired skills; the emotions—fear, horror, rage, vengeance—or the cognition, tactics, and intelligence.

The better part of valor is discretion.

—Shakespeare

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  1. The Israeli Institute for Military Studies, Zikhron Ya’akov, Israel, 30900

    Reuven Gal

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  1. Department of Educational Psychology, University of Saskatchewan, S7N 0W0, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada

    Donald H. Saklofske

  2. School of Education, University of Haifa, 31999, Mount Carmel, Israel

    Moshe Zeidner

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Gal, R. (1995). Personality and Intelligence in the Military. In: Saklofske, D.H., Zeidner, M. (eds) International Handbook of Personality and Intelligence. Perspectives on Individual Differences. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-5571-8_33

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