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   From: steuard@slimy.com   
      
   In message , T.M. Sommers   
    wrote:   
   > But since armies are organized hierarchically, to control an army you   
   > only have to control the commander, not the individual soldiers.   
      
   Well, within limits, right? I mean, if Sauron somehow subverted Prince   
   Imrahil and made him order his knights to attack their cousins in the   
   unit from Pelargir beside them, I doubt they'd jump straight to it   
   with no questions asked! And yet that's the sort of control that (say)   
   Aragorn would need to exert over Sauron's armies to have any hope of   
   victory at the Black Gate.   
      
   						Steuard Jensen   
      
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