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> would you say that the military gets things done better than your average tech company?

No, because a tech company is all about avoiding work. Tech companies do as little as possible to reach the benchmark and no more.

The military is about "Getting unit X of work done. Period." Whether that work is stupid or irrelevant is not up for debate once it's assigned. The work must get done; it will get done; there is a minimum standard; the cost is now irrelevant."

The military spends a fucking ton to get the results they get, I'd bet they put a million bucks into my training as a junior officer back then (it was a while ago). That's mostly why they get results. It wouldn't work for most businesses.

In wartime it does, usually.