But also, fuck the military, why am I giving them good advice? Fuck

that is kind of what i'm thinking about. the Revolution provided this unique opportunity for a bunch of assholes who would have languished in the low officer-ranks to become the leaders, and it blew the whole of europe out of the damn water. now, both the soviet union and modern china did do the direct-to-officer education, so maybe i'm missing something (and i defeinitely agree that the military is something that ought to have a hierarchy in it)

but i can't shake the impression that all the troops should probably be trained for basic administration (NCO-equivalent) and then the stand-outs who are actually good at it can be selected and further trained. but maybe it takes a long ass time to forge a good officer and the time just isn't there if we want them relatively young, i really don't know