17:45 - So commission buying prevented the Peter Principle, where one gets promoted for being good at the lower-ranking jobs into positions where they're awful?
@AnotherHistorianWargamer2 жыл бұрын
Exactly, although it didn't stop it entirely it did reduce it, once you stopped having large scale active wars tests of real competency got harder and harder to find. That's one of the reasons Crimea was such a disaster and why WWI started the way it did compared to the largely successful actions at the start of WWII. Also you need good, experienced lower ranking officers. Captains and Lieutenants have tasks and are important not just stepping stones to higher ranks and by artificially restricting some men to those ranks they improved the regiment. It was possible to get a "non-purchase" promotion but they were very rare in peacetime. The purchase system also acted as a bond, if an officer was convicted of a crime he would lose his commission which in today's money is hundreds of thousands to millions of dollars.
@ingold14702 жыл бұрын
@@AnotherHistorianWargamer Have later militaries come up with another solution to this problem? Sometimes I worry it is quite pervasive in this "follow your dreams" era of careerism in the civilian world too, where "essential" jobs have well-publicised shortages and educated professions require constant self-marketing in addition to the credentials themselves to get into. Though if most of the basic work was really done by resentful burnouts it would be a wonder that things work at all.
@AnotherHistorianWargamer2 жыл бұрын
@@ingold1470 I can't speak to modern militaries but I would imagine they haven't. Everyone can do everything and the only difference between a Private and a General is training. In our time we discount natural ability and proclivity towards leadership, intuition, tenacity ect. The type of person who makes a good sergeant is different to the person who makes a good Lieutenant and the same is true for Lieutenant and Captain but we don't acknowledge that today.
@JamesJohnson-wq6bs2 жыл бұрын
See? Now this is the mark of a true friend. People have been asking me to review this movie on our channel, and I've always dreaded it. Now I don't have do. THANK YOU Dylan for stepping in front of this bullet. and saving my life, or at least my sanity. I'm gonna stop now, because if I start agreeing or talking about certain points ... this will be an 800-page post. One of the fucking WORST historical or war movies EVER made, a steaming pile of lie, insult, lie, insult, and lie again. God, just thinking about this movie gives me a headache.
@milostone64982 жыл бұрын
The drummer with a head bandage 🤕 is from an old American iconic painting. Well, actually the flute player has the bandage and the drummer was a boy with a tricorne. Spirit of 76. Clearly the director went for the asthenic over accuracy. Something Hollywood will to do, and is well know for. There is no archetype in the details. Entertainment runs on archetypes.
@balrog2629 ай бұрын
I think it's tad unfair to say Tarleton is a bad guy. I've not heard any really bad things outside of the US propaganda. Also the Britsh troops thought the Americans had committed perfidy. Which is a WAR CRIME. So they gave no quarter under the impression it was a trick. It's a mess, but not a war crime by the British.
@deece14822 жыл бұрын
Even my American friends hate this movie.
@AnotherHistorianWargamer2 жыл бұрын
Yep you can see one of my American friends in the comments expressing a similar opinion. Good to know that even He on Terra who sits in the Golden Throne watching over all Mankind thinks the Patriot sucks.