For those readers who served in Vietnam - there is nothing new to be read here.
The man on the front lines who is risking everything is controlled by a thing in the rear that is risking nothing.
The worse thing a warrior can ever see is another warrior who has changed because of his promotion and become a REMF of a perfumed prince and is making decisions for his personal promotion vice keeping is ex-superiors and ex-subordinates alive.
And, unfortunately this track was entirely predictable from the outset.
If I were king, everyone who desires to write the rules of engagement, military or civilian, male or female, would get to field test his proposed rules for six months as the point man. But then, that would clear out too many REMFs/perfumed princes and how would the military bureaucratic empires ever survive?
I agree.
(PS: it’s ‘BOHICA’)