People can learn things, but Institutions are not people. ‘Peacetime’ militaries usually start wars as Institutions run by procedure, are thrown into chaos as procedure heedlessly dashes itself against the rocks of Being, repeatedly experiencing failure and catastrophe, and end the war, if they succeed and survive, as teams of people run by fiat, having relearned all the old forgotten lessons once again.

Or to put it in more prosaic terms, victory in war tends to go to the side that can afford to make the most mistakes.

Success in a bureaucracy marks you as a threat to be eliminated, not an asset to be cultivated. Actually accomplishing the nominal purpose the institution supposedly exists for is a rallying flag for all the Bureaucracy Men to put aside their usual backbiting and come together in focusing their backbiting on side-lining the source of collective embarrassment.

In other words, you can’t ‘nudge’ a bureaucracy; it will sooner crash its ostensible responsibility with no survivors, than shed one iota of its accumulated sinecure, in response to changes in funding or ‘incentives’. Only personnel matters, the power to hire and fire. Changes in behavior means changes in personnel. You either kill it and replace it with something else, or be killed by it.

https://johntreed.com/blogs/john-t-reed-s-blog-about-military-matters/60879683-the-u-s-military-s-marathon-30-year-single-elimination-suck-up-tournament-or-how-america-selects-its-generals

https://anarchonomicon.substack.com/p/cocytarchy

Are we so soon forgetting Miss Rona and her Great Hoax?

If the best information is at the edge, then the edge is where I want to be.

You mean the “vaccine” that just last year murdered more children than the number of American soldiers who perished in World War One?