Not one war...
Not one war in all of history, probably not even ONE BATTLE, has ever been won by commissioned officers and their equivalents, without the enlisted men or their equivalents-- the troops in the ranks-- to carry out all those fine orders the officers hand down. Throughout most of history, it has been the enlisted men and their equivalents-- the troops in the ranks-- who have done the fighting, the killing, the bleeding, the dying-- without which all these fine officers would have accomplished nothing at all. Even now, where the Air Force 'has it right'-- they send the officers out to fight while the enlisted personnel stay safe back at base-- not one plane flies, not one mission gets done, without the enlisted men and women doing all the maintenance, refueling, and rearming on those aircraft.