[pnathan]

The question of leadership is much larger, more general, and more timeless than the last 15 years. I invite those curious about it to look into the American Army.

> Leadership is the process of influencing people by providing purpose, direction, and motivation to accomplish the mission and improve the organization.

taken from -

-- https://www.eiu.edu/armyrotc/docs/adp6_22.pdf

[hapless]

The American army, the origin of the term "fragging." (to wit, making sure your commanding officer has a close, and final, encounter with a piece of ordnance, such as a frag grenade)

if we are to learn anything from the US military, it is twofold

1. You can absolutely create a self-reproducing tradition of absolute conformity while retaining ample capacity for local decisionmaking, if you have enough money and time. (In the case of the US army, approximately 150 years, and more money than any other organization in the history of man)

2. Segregating the staff into "officers" and "enlisted" is still gonna get a lot of "officers" killed dead, and even more "objectives" un-taken, because it spreads their incentives too far apart.