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Not just the military
If I'm taking the thread off-topic, please delete, but IMO, this parallels exactly what's happening in U.S. industry.
In the industries I typically consult in (healthcare/finance), strong leadership has almost totally been pushed out in favor of bureaucratic consensus management. Lot's of "Double Triple Super Executive Vice President of Nothing Much" positions that a couple decades ago would have just been a staff role in a back office somewhere. Simple decisions require consensus from a large pool of people that don't have a clue what's happening in the field.
If this keeps up with military and civilian organizations, I wonder in the future how we'll be able to win global conflicts or compete in global industry.
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