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Proceedings Magazine - August 1968 Vol. 94/8/786

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The Mystique of Command Presence

Issue: Proceedings Magazine - August 1968 Vol. 94/8/786

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  The foreign officer in the unfamiliar uniform stood before the ill-equipped soldiery and, lacking a facility in the mother tongue of the troops, he took a weapon in hand and painstakingly demonstrated each of the movements he sought to convey....

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