Of Patton, Ian Khama and the art of (an election) war

In fact he was of the view, perhaps not unlike many men of the forces, that there was no point in recognising the individual if the individual did not recognise that the only role he/she had was to serve the team.

In the 1970 classic war movie of the same name, Patton, played by George C. Scott, in his Academy Award winning role, delivers a monologue on that most important virtue of them all; team work. "Now an army is a team. It lives, eats, sleeps, fights as a team.