So what are these military values? What are these notions that any kind of military organization has to instill in its soldiers? We're going to talk about five, and these are very broad, but I think they give us an idea of what we're talking about. And I've called them camaraderie, leadership, faith, honor, and courage. And I think of these as, in a sense, the commandments of any kind of military organization. Rules that almost every single organization across a history that is associated with the military have followed and have tried to instill in their men. So let's first talk about camaraderie. The importance of friendship is critical in uniting soldiers in war. Sometimes, some have said that this is over-expressed, that this is exaggerated. I don't think so. Every single account that we have of war, talks about the special bond. Talks about this kind, linking that people feel when they're facing these situations. If you think of most war movies, for example, or any kind of action movie. Often times, it is really a movie about friendship. It is really an account of that special friendship that comes from sharing this incredible danger, this sense of participation, this sense of being all in one thing. And wanting, wanting to help this other person and feeling something special for that person. Stephen Crane once said that there are mysterious fraternities that are born out of smoke and danger of death. That the kinds of friendships that these people might feel, the kinds of illusions they might have about each other, the kind of ties. And it's very interesting that war time is often remembered as a time of the most intense friendships. That when asked what could they remember about the war, if they choose to talk about it, they will often talk about the kinds of friends that they had. The kinds of bonds that they have. This sense of nobody will ever know you as well as the person who is faced death along with you. Interestingly, American soldiers surveyed in 1944 as part of S.L.A. Marshall's survey reported to obligations to comrades were the most powerful reasons to fight. I've called this in, in my class here at, at Princeton, the moral code of the buddy. That is, that what you're fighting for is not the flag, it's not some abstract. You are fighting, in a sense, for that person who is next to you. And that kind of bonding is what prevents you from running away. There is almost a semi-erotic bond between men, which takes its extreme form, let's say, in the Theban Sacred Band of 4th century B.C. Greece, where homosexual lovers fought side by side. But consider that in battle and in combat is one of the spaces that until very, very recently, one of the very few spaces that men could ascribe love to each other. That men could talk about, I love you guy. and they could use that language without any sense of self consciousness. We have made this semi-erotic bond part of the value, of we teach the, our soldiers to depend on each other and yes, yes, very much to love each other.