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An  unusual book that deals with leadership at the tactical level.  “Combat 
Team: The Captain's War, An Interactive Exercise in Company Level Command in 
Battle, is by John F. Antal, an Army officer presently serving in the office 
of the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. The premise of the book, which 
the author describes as a "scrambled text"; is that the reader commands a 
company-sized combined arms team and leads it through a series of combat 
situations. The "scrambled text" requires an action at the end of each 
section of the book. Readers will jump to specified sections of the narrative 
based on a roll of the dice or decisions they have made while working through 
each section. This replication of a profoundly nonlinear process illustrates 
the passage from Clausewitz's On War with which Antal introduces the 
Foreword: 
"Everything in war is simple, but the simplest thing is difficult. The 
difficulties accumulate and end by producing a kind of friction that is 
inconceivable unless one has experienced war." 
From PARAMETERS, US Army War College Quarterly, The United States Army's 
Senior Professional Journal,  Winter 1998, pp. 143-44.

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