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hold up do any militaries achieve that last one? They’re not getting it from exercises. I guess OCS and the specialist schools are filters for personality traits that might signal competence. But it’s not like they’re anonymous, and they definitely don’t keep sending officers back to Ft. Benning every time they’re up for promotion.
No, they don't, even though they could. There's nothing stopping a good military from making a simulation of a war, sticking officers into dorms rooms for a month and having them wage virtual war 16 hours a day and communicating through monitored, anonymized chat so no cliques possibly, you wouldn't even know who is on the other side.
Officer schools filter out the worst performers, but they don't and can't evaluate the ability to lead people or improvise. In addition, this should be all promotions above a certain level.
In US armed forces it's notorious that any and every position above captain requires being political, having patrons and all that bullshit. That's how you get the level of dysfunction they have now - they stopped being able to build ships, they can't get rid of Houthis, etc. In all likelihood, every capable, disagreeable officer got filtered out by this clique system.
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