The Heart and the Fist
by Eric Greitens
Humanitarian work in Rwanda, Bosnia and Bolivia, then Navy SEAL training and deployments, and the argument that compassion needs strength. Greitens's later political disgrace does not change the book's content; read with that in mind.
Read it if…
you want a case that service needs both heart and strength.
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Skip it if…
the author's later conduct makes him impossible for you to read.
Try instead: Tides of War →
Three things you will actually use
- Compassion without strength is sentiment.
- Strength without compassion is brutality.
- Serve where you are.
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Read the Hell Week chapters.
Our verdict
Compassion and strength.
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