The idea that people who aren’t good at their jobs must be fired shouldn’t be a revolutionary concept in a place like the Army, where failure gets people killed. Gen. George Marshall fired 16 army division commanders during WWII, notes reporter Thomas Ricks in his new book, “The Generals.”
Generals normally don’t get fired by each other anymore; it’s now up to the civilian hierarchy to complete that task, and rarely does anyone below the four-star level get removed.
Ricks’ hard-cover book provides a detailed account of performance standards which eroded as the military looked to fashion itself after corporate America in the 1950s, and how those mistakes laid the groundwork for costlier errors in Vietnam and Iraq.
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