Originally Posted by
Elvis90
Mission accomplishment should be the #1 priority over education or anything else. Look at the leaders in WWII and you'll find many of our great leaders didn't deal with this academic nonsense. Leadership and innovation were the most important qualities.
In the WWII era, promotions were routine due to the buildup and combat attrition. A better comparison would be with previous periods when promotions were scarce, e.g. during postwar drawdowns. I suspect that those passed over were equally critical of whatever filter was being used at that time. If everyone gets a Masters, will something even more objectionable be used to select candidates? Of course they
should use "leadership and innovation" qualities, but will they?
