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Does the officer/NCO hierarchy make sense in the modern world?
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It seems odd to me that a veteran with 25 years field combat experience has to take orders from some 19 year old college student just because the latter went to a fancy college. Is it really prudent to keep that hierarchy today?

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It makes as little sense as MBAs in charge of screenwriting decisions yet here we are.

Looking back on history you'll see that militaries pretty much invariably grow a fatberg of halfwit middle managers which is the point at which they start dying.

See: All the armies that Napoleon beat into the dirt by just not having that.

Like yes technically it makes sense but in practice the modern execution is terrible.

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