Keegan, one of the foremost general military scholars of the twentieth century, uses studies of four leaders to examine issues of leadership and of more formal command. Alexander the Great, the Duke of Wellington, U.S. Grant, and Adolf Hitler are employed to illustrate the development of social attributes of leadership and functionalities of command. Each is discussed as an individual, in relation to his national and military society, in the context of his army and his command systems. From these discussions, Keegan draws a number of attributes (kinship, prescription, sanction, action, example), against which he assesses the national nuclear command systems of the modern (Cold War) world.
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