How to Overcome Friction in the Marine Corps

Charles Charles: Friction is inevitable. Marine leaders must accept it. Do everything in their power to minimize its effects and learn to fight effectively in spite of it. Iron will power can overcome this friction. It pulverizes every obstacle. But of course, it wears down the machine as well. Whatever form it takes, because war is a human enterprise, friction will always have a psychological as well as a physical impact. You are getting worn down by the friction.