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Great article and read on Charles "Chinese" Gordon. In his day - he was the media's favorite and excelled in providing a gripping story with his exploits. Probably no other British Army officer more depicts the Age of Victoria than Gordon, and as such - history is likely to never forget his stand in the Sudan.
Governor-General Charles Gordon
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I've always admired Gordon.
To my mind, we'll never know what similar types of leaders have been cast-aside in their "infancy" over the last century owing to a "modernized" concept of what makes a good officer.
Eccentrics, those who sometimes "buck the system", or struggle with some rote competencies...but show immense instinct in others; maybe we shouldn't be so quick to see them off.
To my mind, we'll never know what similar types of leaders have been cast-aside in their "infancy" over the last century owing to a "modernized" concept of what makes a good officer.
Eccentrics, those who sometimes "buck the system", or struggle with some rote competencies...but show immense instinct in others; maybe we shouldn't be so quick to see them off.
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LTC Eric Udouj
He was a man at the right time in history - and alot of it also was that he was a superb Engineer Officer. hard to imagine an Engineer Officer in the US military being given the opportunities he undertook - or that our system will ever see the abilities in men and women vs a standardized system that never allows them to really be effective.
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