The Samurai Tradition - A Man of Courage, Hardness and Resilience

The samurai tradition basically believes that the potential of a soldier has to be high rather than low. It's the combination of a university professor, a martial arts bodybuilder and an extreme warrior. The Praetorian guards, the invincibles in the Persian court are the nearest you get in the western tradition to the samurai epic. But even then your average SAS man could hardly be described as an intellectual or literate,.