Reply #5: Process worship -- GOLDEN WORDS

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Process worship cripples operating forces

Let me just say, from the perspective of a 7-year veteran of the Marine Corps, those are golden words. Process is critical for training and then must be essentially jettisoned. It's like learning counterpoint when you're a young composer: first you learn all the very strict rules so that when the time comes, you'll know which ones to break.

Supply in war is beyond crucial; it's everything. Why were Alexander and Napoleon geniuses? Not for going to this flank or that flank but for being able to move, feed, and equip thousands of men so that they could then go to this or that flank. It's easy to watch a set of red and blue arrows move on the History Channel but it takes creativity, drive, and frankly genius to actually accomplish those evolutions.