My experience as an officer in a conscription Army was that a third of your troops carried more than their weight, a third carried their share, and those two carried the third that were dead weight.
When it came to the mission, a third would energetically go after it, a third would do what was expected and they had to make up for the third that had an attitude.
A corrolary was that if you did your job leading them, a third would follow you enthusiastically, a third willingly, and a third hated your guts.
See a pattern?
It doesn’t surprise me that with a little digging one could find troops that hated any and every officer.
My experience as an officer in a conscription Army was that a third of your troops carried more than their weight, a third carried their share, and those two carried the third that were dead weight.
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Doesn’t that ‘theory’ work almost everywhere?
I believe that during the Revolutionary War that only about 1/3 of the people (openly) believed in the ‘cause’.
Even elections have basically broken down to 40% are diehard R, 40% diehard D and the ‘fight’ is for the 20% that are ??????
Of course when one starts IGNORING their base 40% they start losing.
Wasn’t that supposed to be Romneys ‘thought’ when he mentioned the 47% were ‘lost’ mostly because 47% were on some sort of Govt program (of course he was mixing Military, LEGITIMATE SocSec, etc etc etc).
Like the line that was attributed to many but basically said that a Republic will last about 200 years as it takes that long to get the ‘minorities’ and have nots in one mind set and to band together to replace the haves.
OF COURSE, no one points out that once the HAVES become HAVENOTS, there is no one left to pick up the slack....