askchapo

22766 readers

449 users here now

Ask Hexbear is the place to ask and answer ~~thought-provoking~~ questions.

Rules:

Posts must ask a question.
If the question asked is serious, answer seriously.
Questions where you want to learn more about socialism are allowed, but questions in bad faith are not.
Try [email protected] if you're having questions about regarding moderation, site policy, the site itself, development, volunteering or the mod team.

founded 4 years ago

MODERATORS

[email protected]

Class Character of the US officer corps (hexbear.net)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

12 comments fedilink hide all child comments

specifically right now/recently. what are the recruitment paths, who do they draw? has it changed much? how different is the officers' disposition from the enlisted?

im reading about the Grande Armeé rn so naturally im curious about existing systems

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago

But also, fuck the military, why am I giving them good advice? Fuck

that is kind of what i'm thinking about. the Revolution provided this unique opportunity for a bunch of assholes who would have languished in the low officer-ranks to become the leaders, and it blew the whole of europe out of the damn water. now, both the soviet union and modern china did do the direct-to-officer education, so maybe i'm missing something (and i defeinitely agree that the military is something that ought to have a hierarchy in it)

but i can't shake the impression that all the troops should probably be trained for basic administration (NCO-equivalent) and then the stand-outs who are actually good at it can be selected and further trained. but maybe it takes a long ass time to forge a good officer and the time just isn't there if we want them relatively young, i really don't know