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The capacity of soldiers to kill on order and to remain doing so has always proved troublesome for higher command, because an army may be ‘a dumb beast which kills when it is set down but its soldiers also feel pain’.1 Looking back at D-Day one quote always comes to mind: ‘A rational army would run away’.2 Yet, by and large, armies do not act in this way and certainly the vast majority of all troops involved on both sides carried out their duties on D-Day. Keegan3 suggests several other reasons why, in the main, most soldiers do not run away, despite the danger involved in staying put in a crisis.
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Grint, K. (2008). Commanding. In: Leadership, Management and Command. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230590502_12
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