This is Jockel Podcast number 233 with Echo Charles and me, Jockel Willink. Good evening, Echo. Good evening.

So the last podcast we were reviewing a book about the Boor Wars and we were going to pick up where we left off last time, which is what the British did with the lessons that they learned, the military reforms that they made and how they made this transition and then where it ended up in the

well in World War I. So the name of the book is the Boor War and military reforms by J Stone and Irwin Schmiddell. And let's take it back to the book. So picking up where we left off, this is the this is what this is when they start talking about the reforms that got made from the top down appointments were made in a casual random way.

And then the usual random manner that often resulted in matching of poor and poor matching of personality skills or personal inclinations, inclinations to the demands of a particular post.

So the way that they were appointing officers was just kind of random. And then the way they were matching up teams was also kind of random. And then you take the wrong personalities and mix them together.

Don't wanna put good leadership. And so the actual question what one of these incidents and the phone was what took you a very long time.

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into mixed battalions.

This was done with a seeming disregard of structural

and historic uniformity with adverse consequences

on a spriti corps in an army with strong wrench of mental ties.

So they take a bunch of teams,

they get to South Africa and they split them all up

and mix them all up.

This is just a bad move.

I used to be, I used to feel like I was kind of cheating

a little bit when it came to,

when it wouldn't task unit bruiser,

it was going through our pre-deployment workup

because we would train, we would split up and we'd mix up,

but when we had to do a training operation,

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