Vision 2016 H1

[Ola Fosheim Grøstad via Digitalmars-d]

On Monday, 25 January 2016 at 15:28:47 UTC, kldjlkd wrote:
> You deny the whole modern history with such a speech.

That's a bold statement with no argument to back it up.

> The current state of human being, with all its history and 
> experience, is that so far we haven't found any better solution 
> than being organized and prioritized (or specialized).
>
> In the past, people tried to adopt a more horizontal system but 
> it didn't work.

Of course we have horizontal and organic ways of organizing civil 
society. The military is just a very very special case where no 
failure is accepted in very chaotic situations. That means 
everything is routine. It is far more bureaucratic than even the 
most bureaucratic civil organization. The legal system is organic 
in comparison.

People who have romantic ideas about the army probably have their 
ideas of what it is like from movies or games. That does not 
reflect the incredibly dull day-to-day army life.

The overarching principle in the army is that nobody should need 
to be so skilled in their task that they cannot easily be 
replaced on the spot. Basically an ant colony.