Timeline for Additional officer ranks for large military organizations
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| Feb 12, 2023 at 22:43 | answer | added | Keith Morrison | timeline score: 0 | |
| Feb 11, 2023 at 7:58 | answer | added | M. A. Golding | timeline score: 1 | |
| Feb 3, 2023 at 21:58 | answer | added | RonJohn | timeline score: 3 | |
| Feb 3, 2023 at 14:33 | comment | added | Austin Hemmelgarn | You seem to be thinking in terms of an ‘old doctrine’ military where things were micromanaged from the top down and everyone in the field had to call back to base to ask for orders whenever something unexpected happened, which does not scale at all. No sensible military operates that way anymore, they instead use a mission command style of management, where the CO says what the goal is and why, and then leaves their subordinates to figure out the how based on their capabilities and rules of engagement. This style of management actually scales horizontally very well. | |
| Feb 3, 2023 at 6:44 | comment | added | TheDyingOfLight | I think your putting the cart before the horse here. Atomic Rockets has a great guide for building a space military, starting from the strategic environment. | |
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| Feb 3, 2023 at 1:28 | comment | added | user535733 | There is no physical law preventing your vast horde from having additional ranks as needed, and call them whatever you wish. In fact, your horde should be organized by function and effectiveness (that's how you win), not focused on historical structures (that's how you lose). If Colonel A needs 2000 subordinates to do their specific operational job, while Colonel B need only 600 to do their completely different job, then that's what dictates the structure. | |
| Feb 2, 2023 at 21:18 | answer | added | JamieB | timeline score: 2 | |
| Feb 2, 2023 at 21:01 | answer | added | wokopa | timeline score: 4 | |
| Feb 2, 2023 at 20:45 | answer | added | AlexP | timeline score: 8 | |
| Feb 2, 2023 at 19:28 | comment | added | Demigan | The point I’m trying to make: even in the worst case you have one dude coordinating for a single continent, and if the world united because bored aliens wanted a bloody reality show and keep invading with increasingly challenging but survivable soldiers you’d have one person who all those continental generals report to. You could at worst then expand that to solar, sector and galactic command structures maybe? | |
| Feb 2, 2023 at 19:26 | comment | added | Demigan | I think you may be overcomplicating things. For example in America and Australia one guy is essentially responsible for an entire continent, regardless of how many people are in the military at that point. Because that amount doesnt matter to what they manage. They are more general in their duties, they dont get to hear what private conscriptovitch has to complain about or tell him where to dig a trench. They lead by where to spend money and overall planning of potential wars, after which their subordinates fill in with increasing exactness what to do. | |
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| Feb 2, 2023 at 19:02 | answer | added | o.m. | timeline score: 1 | |
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| Feb 2, 2023 at 18:55 | comment | added | dreamforge | @Demigan the only problem is that if you keep on expanding laterally like you mentioned, you will keep on increasing the number of flag officers at the top; and given the existing ranks, at some point in time you'll have too many of the highest (e.g., five-star ranks) reporting to one individual (the head of state) to be able to effectively manage a force. I'm wondering what the ranks and/or doctrine for bridging that gap would be. | |
| Feb 2, 2023 at 18:51 | comment | added | Demigan | I dont see the point? If you create another platoon, you just add another group of first lieutenants and all the ranks below. This reports to a captain or whatever. Too many platoons per captain? Add another captain! Too many captains reporting to a Colonel? Add another colonel! Too many reporting to a General? Add another general! The highest top is going to be broad-strokes managerial anyway, so having one special general appointed to a certain theatre and having them report to one highest general would work fine. | |
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| Feb 2, 2023 at 18:50 | answer | added | user71781 | timeline score: 12 | |
| Feb 2, 2023 at 18:37 | history | asked | dreamforge | CC BY-SA 4.0 |