Mike Ritland
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What Actually Makes A Unit Effective?
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July 31, 2026
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0:25Now Playing"Most people think there's one thing that makes a combat unit effective. There's not."
Urban warfare expert John Spencer explains that unit effectiveness comes from multiple overlapping systems, not a single factor, drawing on what he's seen traveling the world and observing conscript armies versus the US military's volunteer force and NCO structure, a tradition he traces back to Baron Von Steuben's Blue Book.
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