Be it intentional or accidental, formal or informal, legal or illegal, every life began the day two people, a man and a woman, met and decided to "relate." Every child journeys into adulthood greatly influenced by physical, societal, emotional, natural and psychological factors - starting from the quality of that "man" and "woman" who came together to have h(im/er). THE SOLDIER WITHIN answers the fundamental question "What makes a man?" and emphasizes how his life and present activities trace back to all the people he has known from birth and how they have affected him. How, like a tree, he was in the ground and gradually developed trunk, branches, leaves and fruits. This book give insights and retorts to the most disquieting queries about what a Nation and her individuals must do to attain absolute greatness. Enlisting its readers in the class of those who fly with the eagle's wings by deliberate effort, away from the "earth-bound" chickens who only hope for the best without working out what is best.