I 100% agree with the sentiment, but you should not plan to be "badly trained."
Simplicity is the key, but doing very simple things well requires great skill. That is why war isn't engineering.
As resident of Israel and the product of a British Public School, I am extremely aware of the disproportionately high casualties among junior officers.And next time, you should really exclude "lieutenants die like fleas on battlefields" from "Luckily none of that reflects reality." or I'll slap you with a load of statistics about the remaining life expectation of mechanised infantry lieutenants in war.
The reality I was challenging the idea that if that happens life grinds to a halt because the Platoon Sergeant is "systematically ill-trained."
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