In the woods with each leader and really understanding them fully as a person. and psychologically where meeting them where they are, to understand how to act strategically with them, you have to know them. what separated your father from so many other leaders is he did not take the fdr approach where he thought the personality meant anything. he would try to figure out strategically what was going to happen, but he understood at the end of the day being buddies, it was the last thing he was interested in doing. no. and he always talked about how you had to look at the other leader to see what was in their selfish best interest and then negotiate from that point. yeah. he did some pretty good messaging, too. i remember probably the most famous picture of him standing in the pass looking down in afghanistan sighting along the ....