Seeing It The Way It Is.
COL Mulholland: Pretty confident for a guy who’s never done this before. Never been to war.
CAPT Nelson: I don’t see that as a disadvantage Sir.
COL: Well, maybe you should explain that?
CAPT Nelson: We’re teaming up with a warlord we know nothing about. We’re not going to be able to tell our enemies from our allies. Every step we’re gonna take is going to be on a minefield from a hundred different wars. And no-one’s every called in a smart bomb airstrike from a B52. So anyone who tells you they’ve done this before or has experience in this is lying, Sir. There’s no playbook here. We have to write it ourselves.
COL Mulholland: I briefed five potential captains for this mission. About a hundred years of military experience between them. But you’re the only one that sees it the way it is. I choose you. You and 11 men. Task Force Dagger.
The first job of a leader is to define reality.