Leadership in vertical organizations is a merging of Leadership by influence, and compliance by choice. To work both the upper and lower echelons must be working towards the same goals, or at least compatible goals. The better leaders understand this and phrase their directions as such. In our Militias this is most important!
Since their inception Militias have always been groups of people aligned for like, or at least, compatible goals. In 1776 it was not for freedom, but for protection. Most of the original militias were gathered not to defeat the British Crown, but to keep the British troops and mercenaries out of the peoples homes. The group at Bunker hill did not rise to defeat the British Garrison, but to prevent them from entering into the peoples homes and taking the weapons they needed to hunt, defend their families, and possess since they paid for them. Regardless why they came, the result was a mutual success of the people. Continue reading “The State Militias”