INTJ.

This is coolbert:

From the mega-list of those persons sharing the same personality type as myself, INTJ, we find a number of military leaders and combat commanders of repute.

INTJ. Introverted iNtuitive Thinking Judging.

A personality type, one of the sixteen recognized personality types, characterized by:

* "INTJs know what they know, and perhaps still more importantly, they know what they don't know"

* "INTJs apply (often ruthlessly) the criterion 'Does it work?' to everything . . . This in turn produces an unusual independence of mind, freeing the INTJ from the constraints of authority, convention, or sentiment for its own sake."

Prominent military leaders having the INTJ personality type include:

* Dwight D. Eisenhower - general officer and American President.

* General Colin Powell - former U.S. Secretary of State.

* Hannibal Barca - Military Commander.

* General Ulysses S. Grant – Union general, American President.

* Helmuth von Moltke – German military general.

And too the fictional character from "Star Trek":

* Ensign Ro Laren - "Star Trek: The Next Generation".

Seems I am in pretty good company. In particular U.S. Grant and Hannibal Barca [yes, THE Hannibal!] stand out. NOT merely military leaders but combat commanders, battlefield tacticians and masters of the operational art! Grant indeed did have "an unusual independence of mind"! This is incontrovertible? NOT slavish adherence to the rules, rather knowing "what works" was the Grant style? In the aftermath of the major blunder at Cold Harbor [10,000 Union casualties in ten minutes!!], Grant NEVER did repeat such a mistake.

"If men make war in slavish obedience to rules, they will fail." - General Ulysses S. Grant.

True then, true now, true always!

coolbert.