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This is a interesting talk held on UC Berkeley about the culture of firing officers during WWII:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AxZWxxZ2JGE

Thomas E. Ricks main hypothesis is that the US failures in Vietnam, Afghanistan and Iraq can be attributed to the culture of firing under-performing disappearing.

It mirrors what I've seen in a lot of organizations as well, under-performing executives keeping their jobs when they shouldn't.



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