FLIP-FLOP WAR: Libya's Punk Revolution

In the manual Baron von Steuben wrote for George Washington's American army, the most remarkable theme was love: love of the soldier for his fellow soldier, love of the officer for his men, love of country and love of his nation's ideals. Steuben obviously intuited that a people's army, a force of citizen-soldiers fighting for freedom from oppression, would be motivated most powerfully not by fear but, as he put it, by love and confidence -- love of their cause, confidence in their officers and in themselves. The genius of this nation, Steuben explained in a letter to a Prussian officer, is not in the least to be compared with that of the Prussians, Austrians, or French. You say to your soldier, Do this, and he does it; but I am obliged to say, 'This is the reason why you ought to do that,' and then he does it."