The Warrior Ethos is not just those four sentences in the middle of the Soldier’s Creed. It is more than that it could mean anything. In the book The Warrior Ethos written by Steven Pressfield; tells us that since the beginning an Ethos has been used. From the Greeks and Romans to the modern-day military. To be able to follow a Warrior Ethos means a soldier is a warrior, that soldiers honor their enemy, that they show no fear. Pressfield splits this book into three parts.
The first part is talking about how the Warrior Ethos started and whom can follow the Warrior Ethos. Stating that warriors must honor thy enemy in battle if the commander and the soldiers do not acknowledge thy enemy then the men cannot support the Ethos. Pressfield continues to indicate that if a person or a group performs acts that demean the honor of their enemy, then they are not warriors at all. That the person or the team cannot follow the Warriors Ethos and that they only develop their own set of codes.
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It stated that a Spartan warrior was not considered a man until that boy receives his shield, or how an Afghan boy was receiving an AK-47 from his father. That real man who becomes warriors respected their enemy from all walks of life. These boys are taught respect before they can do anything. The Spartans, however, were trained how to be tough no matter what. In fact, the Spartans were encouraged to steal to get food because they received very little of it in training. Stealing back then wasn’t a crime, but getting caught stealing was a crime, and they had to endure the punishment quietly, some even died because of