It would, however, demonstrate "martial values" of "self-discipline, respect and an ability to listen".
Real men may not eat quiche, but neither do they necessarily embrace, embody or exude martial values.
For the Psalms, as well as being prayers, are also a people's military songs, with martial values very different from those we nowadays cherish.
Instead, the Phoenix free school in Manchester would offer students ambitious academic goals, outdoor activities and a demonstration of "martial values".
But war calls also for martial values, pride, a personal stake — not just in your own life but in your cause, which in the U.N.'s case is every noncombatant's life.
Her ideological descendants, in unbroken power from then until now, showed the same penchant for suspiciously long-range martial values by indicating that the former Prime Ministers funeral will have a war theme.
The answer lies not in Kennedy's record, which Goldberg assures us was slim, but rather in his cold-war brinkmanship, his "adrenaline-soaked" appeals to national service and martial values, and, of course, the Nazi-like cult of personality that he buffed to gleaming perfection.
This includes the decoration of military dress and equipment, the inculcation and transmission of martial values at military educational institutions of every sort, and the huge number of exercises and games whose objective is to prepare for war and simulate it.
But a film that glorifies martial values and puts them squarely at the center of the country's founding is going to be good for the martial candidate.
The martial values and the strict military hierarchy inherent in armed struggle can become accepted as the norm, particularly if the military leaders of the rebellion become the political leaders of the nation, as is usually the case.
