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Group: uk.transport · Group Profile
Author: ®i©ardo®i©ardo Date: Sep 3, 2008 07:46
Fod wrote:
> On 3 Sep, 06:44, Stimpy yahoo.com> wrote:>> On Tue, 2 Sep 2008 23:22:52 +0100, John Wright wrote
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>>> 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.
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>> 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.
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> would you say that was what produced the leadership in the US and
> Russian armies during WWII?
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> Fod
Didn't Stalin, in the best of Socialist style, murder most of his own
officers, just in case they started to get ideas above their station by
thinking?
However, with both the US and USSR, sheer weight of numbers, natural
resources and production capacity made up for a lot of failings.
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