https://digital-commons.usnwc.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1026&context=cmsi-maritime-reports
The Naval War College is a ticket punch where naval officers acquire the table manners necessary (but not sufficient) to become flag officers, i.e admirals.
Their equivalents of John McCain. Weird.
There used to be a commonly used, though unkind metaphor related to that philosophy; “Like a Chinese Firedrill!”
Why would you consign your best people to shoddy death traps? You put low grade expendables into them.
Because this kind of logic is how China operates.
So much more efficient to do it the Western way. Only one idiot required.
More likely to follow orders blindly without thinking about them too much, I guess.
If their nuke boats are still based on Soviet designs we can hear them coming a week away.
CC
US picks lowest IQ former Senators/VPs to be POTUS.
I wonder where they fit into the von Hammerstein quad?
Well, I for one, and I know of others, have not had much success with tools made in China, or power equipment either, unless it’s from an American or European company and assembled there. Even then the quality is not the same, I’ve noticed my Stihl chain saw didn’t last as long as the prior one and didn’t rev as fast either, and that’s just one example. So, I wouldn’t want to go in a Chinese sub for all of their tea. Put the idiots on it.
I’m not so sure I agree with the conclusion. This is an apples and oranges comparison. It’s comparing command officers with engineers.
If this War College thesis compared US Naval Academy SATs with MIT SATs it might reach the same conclusion about our naval officers.
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Every school is going to have its lowest scorers but with affirmative action we have students who don’t score well enough to be in the school at all, so they amount to much less than the lowest of all who are qualified.
USN is now DEI based so it’s worse than the lowest score it’s the ones that least capable and don’t know what sex they are.
Being in the military is not considered a “good” job in China. The best of them is average.