I linked to one article as an example, a couple more below.
I keep seeing superficial, positive coverage about this system and it has been bothering me for awhile because it seems like an awful idea. Sure reward your most talented personnel but also only rewarding what you can measure, especially in war is a horrendous idea in my opinion…
Rewarding and valuing only what you can most easily measure is a reliable route to self imposed disaster and ineffective optimization.
This system goes a long way towards over-emphasizing drones as well to a degree that is dangerous to good doctrine, any impact that isn’t neatly quantifiable like a drone clip becomes a liability and blindspot to this approach it seems to me.
What about units that aren’t getting enough support and resources to be effective? Does rewarding them less make them more effective…?
Certainly empowering soldiers to get the equipment they want and are requesting is great, but the idea of making this like Call Of Duty is weird to me where only the people currently experiencing success are rewarded, it will breed toxic institutions obsessed with maximizing gain to the exclusion of all else like those that are strangling the US.
I am sure I am getting an incomplete picture, but it seems worrying from what I can see.
Ukraine didn’t roll this out all at once on a whim.
They tested it on small sections of the front, saw that it was effective and rolled it out to more sections. This has been slowly in the making for years.
They also don’t do their entire logistics on this point based system, it’s a supplimentary mechanism.
You’re way too focused on ivory tower philosophizing.