Vase Study in Leadership - Colonel Paul Emil Von Lettow-Vorbeck

摘要

Never captured nor defeated in battle, Colonel Paul von Lettow- Vorbeck successfully fought the British for four years with virtually no external support from Germany. Through brilliant leadership and unequalled use of terrain and weapons placement Lettow-Vorbeck rapidly moved his army across the rugged terrain of Africa and conducted numerous raids and ambushes against the British in East Africa. Only after the war was lost in Europe did Lettow- Vorbeck surrender. His professionalism and leadership style earned him the utmost of respect from his adversaries. Studying Lettow-Vorbeck as a gifted military leader who conducted a strategic guerrilla campaign against overwhelming odds and continually won, demonstrates how a numerically inferior force can achieve success on the battlefield.