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Originally Posted by jaehkimx
I see an earlier comment about the Prussians and the US Army - maybe something to do with Von Clauswitz. I think the US rank system comes straight from the British army during the revolution and has nothing to do with American admiration for the Prussian rank system. The US army seems to have maintained the logical way to go about this. 2nd LT - platoon leader, 1st LT company XO, next rank is captain for company actual.
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i've always wondered why people were so enamoured of Von Clauswitz, after all he's a a German, so WTF would he know about winning wars!
the 'Prussian' system is a form of discipline type, a very rigid rank-bound system, lots of standing to attention and shouting 'sir' whenever anyone with one more camping badge than you walks into the room. having six different ranks of Sergeant (excluding the Three Seargent Major ranks) indicates an organisation obsessed with rank.
your analysis of what rank should perform what task depends almost entirely on whether you believe that a 2nd Lt should be in charge of wiping his own arrse, it also utterly fails to grasp the relevence of operational history, but jumps onto historical
irrelevence