Comments by "Quizmaster China" (@QuizmasterLaw) on "Why I'm Passionate about HISTORY and What Got Me Into it" video.

  1. Your desire to know the truth is clearly sincere and a good goal, so is self improvement; unfortunately, at least as to the war in the east the truth often cannot be known. Maskirovka, provokatsiya, tainost were and are basic Russian military principles. Sun Tzu likewise argues, correctly, that "all war is based on deception". Examples of unknowable questions: Was Tukachevsky really plotting to depose Stalin. We will never know. Did Stalin believe Tukachevsky was planning a coup? Probably, but maybe not! Did Hitler truly believe the Jews, Bolsheviks, and Bankers were conspiring against Aryans? Maybe, maybe not! Did Stalin know Hitler was going to attack? Probably. Did Stalin know exactly when? Probably not. Was Tito really a Russian secret agent? Maybe! Did Beria kill Stalin? Quite possibly, but maybe not. I don't think miitary management, whose object is to kill, incapacitate, and capture the enemy has much to do with business management, which is about production and sale of products. They're two different fields with only few parallels. Many people confuse them, for whatever reason. Anyway, we study past wars to prevent future wars, and failing that - to win them. Again, not much in common with manufacturing distributing and selling products. Military leadership is often about the willingness to sacrifice one's own life, always about calculated risk taking, and this whilst literally planning to kill people. Furthermore the military environment features lack of food, sleep, shelter, along with extreme physial exertion. There are so many reasons militself leadership has nothing in common with producing and selling products in peace time it's amazes me that people think they have carry over. Both involve groups of people organized to a common purpose, but beyond that they have not much in common. If you are interested in business management then go and look into that.
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