I am taking advantage of this comment to ask a general question hoping to read some insights into it.
On different occasions after doing some casual war history reading, I ended up with the diffuse belief that the ability to delegate initiative to low ranking soldiers was one of the key attributes of the winning side ( for example during different israelo-arab wars ).
Then I stumbled upon a military evaluation of how the german army performed during WWII. It spent time stressing the point that german officers were constantly encouraged to show initiative and independant thinking, more so than other western european armies.
Supposedly, it was a cultural trait dating back from the prussian army. It shattered my cliché view of the german army as first and foremost an organization built on discipline.
So here is my question: Is is possible there is a tendency/bias to simply view ourselves as more independant and any adversary we face as more "drone" like ? ( The same way ancient kingdoms would simply label their opponents as savages ? )
On different occasions after doing some casual war history reading, I ended up with the diffuse belief that the ability to delegate initiative to low ranking soldiers was one of the key attributes of the winning side ( for example during different israelo-arab wars ).
Then I stumbled upon a military evaluation of how the german army performed during WWII. It spent time stressing the point that german officers were constantly encouraged to show initiative and independant thinking, more so than other western european armies. Supposedly, it was a cultural trait dating back from the prussian army. It shattered my cliché view of the german army as first and foremost an organization built on discipline.
So here is my question: Is is possible there is a tendency/bias to simply view ourselves as more independant and any adversary we face as more "drone" like ? ( The same way ancient kingdoms would simply label their opponents as savages ? )