Free Download Battle Exhortation: The Rhetoric of Combat Leadership by Keith Yellin
English | June 30, 2008 | ISBN: 1570037353 | 191 pages | EPUB | 0.83 Mb
Battle Exhortation: The Rhetoric of Combat Leadership is now a selection of the Marine Corps Professional Reading List. In this groundbreaking examination of the symbolic strategies used to prepare troops for imminent combat, Keith Yellin offers an interdisciplinary look into a mode of rhetorical discourse that has played a prominent role in warfare, history, and popular culture from antiquity to the present day. In Battle Exhortation he focuses on one of the most time-honored forms of motivational communication, the encouraging speech of military commanders, to offer a pragmatic and scholarly evaluation of how persuasion contributes to combat leadership.