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Machiavelli says it is better to be feared than loved. From sixteen years of campaign I would add: it is best to be both, briefly, and then indispensable. A general who is only feared will be obeyed under supervision and abandoned under fire. A general who is only loved will be mourned when dead but not followed into the impossible. The man who combines dread and devotion — who seems to the soldier both more dangerous than any enemy and more likely to lead him to glory — this man can attempt Austerlitz.