Yes.
Marshall has, sort of, been well hammered. But you have to give him credit for, for that time, going down to the units and in a very primitive and narrative way, getting some quantitative idea of what was going on.
He just didn’t have the education, which even then in manufacturing was only just getting a hold.
Now a days, of course, the military is always sending Ph.D’s around to get , as much as possible, grip on what is going on.
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I remember talking to a Delta guy and he said he, with others, was made to talk to so many eggheads it was making him think there was something wrong with him.
A lot of this stuff is touchy feely and makes the more rigid uncomfortable, but it goes back in disguise, and ‘common sense’, as far as recorded history.
Every leader is interested in getting his expensive troops to expend maximum effort. Soldiers, and cops, are human, and have all the foibles and faults of their culture and our species
Thank you for all your informed and penetrating posts.