In Lt. Forethought’s first dream, the main character gets his first taste of true combat and inevitab

A final and rather critical lesson learned was the creation of good clear fields of fire and massing of firepower. In the early conflicts with the Boers, the main character positions his defense where the enemy could easily approach with relative ease and concealment using the natural bushes. Lt. Forethought discovered early on that, “…it would be better…to have the enemy in the open,” rather than concealed and difficult to locate. Following this, he also stumbled upon the vitalness of inspections. In the fifth dream, after completing the unit’s defenses, the platoon leader did not inspect his soldier’s positions and fields of fire. This unfortunately led to a sizeable “dead ground” where his troops could not see the enemy. Proper inspections of the defense could easily prevented this fatal error.

Lloyd Jones once wrote that, “the men who try to do something and fail are infinitely better than those who try to do nothing and succeed.” The author carries this idea throughout the book and uses it as his main tool in teaching the audien

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