Army officers had to write haikus about Pacific theater of World War II during a leadership course

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Army officers had to write haikus about Pacific theater of World War II during a leadership course

Instructors at a military leadership course gave field grade and warrant officers a lesson in communicating complex ideas in a simple format. Their chosen medium: a haiku. Haikus are a Japanese style of poem with three lines written in 5-7-5 syllable count and typically focus on nature imagery — not so much the nature of war. (There’s also the ironic turn of writing about a military campaign against the Japanese using their own style of poetry.)…