> Fod wrote:

>> On 3 Sep, 06:44, Stimpy yahoo.com> wrote:

>>> On Tue, 2 Sep 2008 23:22:52 +0100, John Wright wrote

>

>>>> We don't teach how to manage properly - or how to lead. It must be
>>>> possible to do it to some degree otherwise we would never have won WWII.

>>> We had a decent Public School system which had evolved over many hundreds of
>>> years specifically to churn out leaders for the Army and the empire.

>

>>> A traditional public school education - with a formal hierarchy of prefects,
>>> fagging and discipline - was, essentially, the apprenticeship for running an
>>> empire and winning wars.

>

>> would you say that was what produced the leadership in the US and
>> Russian armies during WWII?

>
> Perhaps it was the lack of it which produced the leadership in the USSR?
>