We need the best we can get, and we need them fast.  Maybe you’re not going to work out for us, and maybe your are.  Maybe you’ll break down under the pressure, maybe it’ll ruin your life maybe you’ll hate me for coming here to your house today.  But if there’s a chance that because you’re with the fleet, mankind might survive...” (Card 25).

What characteristics do you assume that this military genius would contain physically, mentally, emotionally, etc.?