I've seen that before, I think it was in Clausewitz, and I think it was the other way around.
Smart/ambitious: Make them unit leaders
Smart/unambitious: Make them staff officers for the leaders.
Dumb/unambitious: leave them alone, on their own they will find a quiet out-of-the-way spot where they can't do much harm.
Dumb/ambitious: get rid of them before they kill someone!
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My Twilight claim to fame: I ran "Allegheny Uprising" at Allegheny College, spring of 1988.
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