Which links in the tail's chain can be removed without the chain breaking? I defer to your military background to calculate that.

Would this 100 year old Princeton professor emeritus have survived Omaha Beach and the Battle of the Bulge without his drill sergeant?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wzyTmmSxoK0

What training, or social capital, gave the American pilots at Midway who sunk four Japanese carriers in 12 minutes the gift of bottom-up improvisation that yielded that result?