Re:Why is American administrative capacity in decline?
by thrwy_meta on Monday June 13, 2022 @12:29AM
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>>>I'm not sure how I would get that research, or if it's even possible.
Military Operations Research is a huge field. I like to use Google Scholar, which has many Masters Theses from military grad students, etc... Here's a few results to walk you "on target" if you want to continue to dig:
https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/pdfs/ADA545145.pdf
https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/pdfs/ADA618622.pdf
https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C5&q=airb...
What I can say with some confidence is that there are perverse organizational incentives for some highly accident-prone training exercises. So, even if these exercises are required for readiness, that's not the (only) reason they're done in such high numbers.