sort of operations manual, a handbook for the U.S. Army that I think George Marshall wrote. It was published in 1944. I'm going to read you this quote because it strikes me as what you were just talking about, the idea of how do I know what I have, what it takes. When you're talking to men and women that are going to go out into combat potentially, that's the big doubt. Do I know what I have, what it takes? But let me know what you think of this quote. This is from the Army Life Handbook, 1944. It says, fear before you're actually in battle is a normal reaction. It's the last step of preparation, the not knowing. This is where you'll prove you're a good soldier. That first fight, that fight with yourself will have gone, and then you will be ready to fight the enemy. In your book, you call this the first victory. Absolutely.

I think Marshall had probably read The Art of War by Sun Tzu, and he may have seen that same chapter that jumped right out at me. The idea that if you're going to win, you win the inner battle against self-doubt, etc. first before you go into that initial engagement. Victorious warriors win first and then go into battle, wrote Sunsa, while losing warriors, go into battle and just hope to win. So it's that initial decision. I know what to do. I've got the right equipment. I've got the right teammates. We've got the right plan. We're going to commit to it. Even if we've never done it before, but we're going to commit to this plan because we've got the tools, because we've got the guys to the left and to the right. We've got the right folks. Here we go.