Yes, but I came across this which I think is good food for thought:
“So Germany has a civilian, female career politician with no military background or previous interest in military affairs as minister of defence. Does she do a good job? Apparently, she’s more in command than at least two of her three male predecessors, using an inner circle of longtime loyalists and external consultants to penetrate the bureaucracy. Does she reform in anyway like I’d like to see it? Hell, no. Nor did any of her male predecessors. Our last minister of defence* with a very good reputation left office almost three decades ago, and I hold huge disagreements with some of even his big decisions.
“By comparison, that Russian minister of defence from the photo above is the overlord of a deeply corrupt, deeply inefficient bureaucracy that repeatedly fails to meet military reform or even only procurement objectives, is so badly run that recruiting shortfalls are a nightmare and last but not least he’s almost guaranteed to be deeply corrupt himself. He’s a “General of the Army”, but has apparently no or almost no military experience**, being a civil engineer who became a career politician in 1991 already.
To give a man a rank and a uniform doesn’t make him an expert on military affairs.”
https://defense-and-freedom.blogspot.com/2016/04/the-defence-ministers-of-sweden-norway.html
Well, fair point. I know little about it -— maybe even less than little, because I’d have to unlearn some thing I know that ain’t so. Y’know?