{"id":105078,"date":"2020-09-15T07:15:57","date_gmt":"2020-09-15T11:15:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=105078"},"modified":"2020-09-14T21:58:08","modified_gmt":"2020-09-15T01:58:08","slug":"come-on-you-apes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=105078","title":{"rendered":"Come on you apes!"},"content":{"rendered":"

“You want to live forever?” Robert Heinlein attributed that line to an “unknown platoon sergeant, 1918.” In reality, the line came from Sergeant Major Daniel Daly, USMC circa 1918 in the trenches of France. I discussed him here<\/a>, but his quote is said to have been something along the lines of “Come on, you sons of bitches, do you want to live forever?”<\/p>\n

Anyway, the reason I bring up apes, is apparently the military is gleaning insight from apes to better understand the interactions of men. Chimps and people, according to the research (with Army mathematicians confirming it), both the apes and us humans communicate most effectively in teams of 5, 15, and so forth to a peak around 150, then in groups of 50 until you reach 500 people.<\/p>\n

The original research came from,<\/p>\n

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anthropologist Robin Dunbar in the 1990s. The research hypothesized that 150 was the largest group that humans can maintain \u201cstable social relations.\u201d<\/p>\n

Recently, Army Research Office Chief Scientist Bruce West and students at the University of North Texas were able to test the decades-old theory.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe layering sequence is interesting because each number in the sequence is within a factor of two of the empirical magnitudes of entity sizes in the U.S. Army, ranging from a squad of roughly 15 to a platoon of approximately three times the squad size, next to a company consisting of three platoons and followed by a brigade the size of roughly three companies and so on,\u201d West said.<\/p>\n

Understanding how the information flows in a group, then analyzed and either accepted or rejected, is critical both within a single team of any size and how individual teams work with other teams, West said in an Army statement.<\/p>\n

West and his team were the first to \u201ccomputationally capture\u201d the dynamics of how information moved through the group, where it flowed or stalled.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s a major factor in unit cohesion and combat effectiveness.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

These numbers will probably seem pretty familiar to any vet as all of the branches have, independently and organically, arrived at these numbers for many common military formations.<\/p>\n

Read more at\u00a0Army Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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