Rommel’s Recipe for Success.
Taken from ‘Real Men Eat Pufferfish’ by Robert Twigger:
- Everyday do something you find physically painful and unpleasant. Rommel always rose at 6 a.m every day and ran 1km flat out. Even when he was diagnosed with a heart condition and had chest pains.
- Never be tired, never eat and never sleep in public. Nothing inspires people more than a superman.
- Minimise losses by tactics rather than maximise gains.
- Reconnotoire in force.
- Be merciless on any mistake made by the enemy.
- Promote enthusiasm, spirit and correct values ahead of specialised skills, physical fitness and training.
- Carry out an attack regardless of what is happening on your rear flank.
- Choose fairness over popularity every time.
- Use tanks. Use tanks in numbers.
- Trust your intuition in the heat of battle.
- A disordered enemy does not protect his flanks, use this to your advantage.
