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For clarity. Can I ask for a rough breakdown as to what are J2 - J8 responsibilities I was FAA in the 70's and this is way above my pay grade
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Joint staff is _WAY_ above the pay grade I was at! Battalion S2 shop is a much different placeJ1 - Personnel
J2 - Intelligence
J3 - Operations
J4 - Logistics
J5 - Plans
J6 - Communications
J7 - Training and Exercises
J8 - Future Capabilities
I also had interactions, and still do, with the J7 team so I'm not missing much in terms of HQ work across the staff.
I hear sir David Attenborough doing some lines.
An example of tribal bias comes to mind from the time of Iraq and Saddam. A relative had a long relationship with a skilled Doctor originally from Iraq. The doctor visited our relatives home shortly after U.S. military involvement and was asked if he had heard from any of his family still in Iraq. He was definitely against Saddam, the reason he left many years earlier, and when I agreed with his views of Saddam as evil, I added Saddam even gassed his own people, the Kurds. At that, the doctor responded, "That's OK, those are bad people." I was astonished this very caring man of medicine would think that. Tribal bias.That's an AWESOME video. Thanks for sharing. It's 100% relevant to what we're seeing today.
I think, in part, stupidity is driven by humankind's tribal ancestry. We automatically divide people into groups of "us" and "them", whether it's the sports teams we support, the political parties we endorse, the "otherness" of people with differently-coloured skins, or even those in different social strata. If we always assume "we" are right, then "them" must clearly be wrong. "Them" are the people we don't listen to. "Them" become the enemy.
There's also the tendency of people who are highly-capable in one discipline to believe they're equally capable in other disciplines. I think this is where we tip over from self-confidence to arrogance. A good general officer is humble enough and self-confident enough to know that they have hundreds of experts across all sorts of disciplines, and that integrating the efforts of those experts will deliver better recommendations upon which the general can make a decision. An arrogant general thinks they're the smartest person in the room, regardless of the topic under discussion, inevitably leading to staff not thinking for themselves (because the general does all the thinking anyway) and, ultimately, poor recommendations and decisions.
I think, in part, stupidity is driven by humankind's tribal ancestry. We automatically divide people into groups of "us" and "them", whether it's the sports teams we support, the political parties we endorse, the "otherness" of people with differently-coloured skins, or even those in different social strata. If we always assume "we" are right, then "them" must clearly be wrong. "Them" are the people we don't listen to. "Them" become the enemy.
Joint staff is _WAY_ above the pay grade I was at! Battalion S2 shop is a much different place
Is Ukraine conscripting?Reinstating the draft is absolutely NOT the way to expand the West's military capability. You end up with a host of unskilled people, many of whom don't even want to be there. Managing a large force of relatively untrained people massively denudes operational capability because you have to spread your skilled, professional personnel across the force, with a net effect of lowering operational effectiveness. Yes, you get more people in the front line but they end up being just like the Russian army - cannon fodder to be thrown into the meat grinder.
As outlined above by ThomasP, they have had national service for the last 25 years.Is Ukraine conscripting?
Russia Lacks Resources to Launch Massive Anniversary Offensive, Military Intelligence tells Kyiv Post
Andriy Chernyak told Kyiv Post that an attack from the territory of Belarus and a second attempt to take the capital Kyiv was “unlikely in the coming weeks”.www.kyivpost.com
If your country was in an existential fight for survival, wouldn't you?Is Ukraine conscripting?
Absolutely. It really has worked out well for Russia hasn't it ?Reinstating the draft is absolutely NOT the way to expand the West's military capability.
There's also the tendency of people who are highly-capable in one discipline to believe they're equally capable in other disciplines.