One way to get more out of people is well, to pay more. Another way is to treat them better. Yet another way is to abuse them, but I would think that would only

One way to get more out of people is well, to pay more. Another way is to treat them better. Yet another way is to abuse them, but I would think that would only work for people who don't really have any other options in life, and you do run into the problem of turnover when people quit, so you pay for it anyway, although I'm not sure how the military works - can you just quit and go work as a civilian? I can immediately find another job that pays at least as much as my current job if my boss were to start abusing me, for example. If you can't quit the military then it does start making sense to me. The people who stay justify their life choices by characterizing the people who leave as being weak, but those people simply had better options. I don't think building a stressful/abusive culture is necessary to get the best out of people. Great people have been produced without such structures, although some people can be coerced into greatness, so it is a way, but not something I'd want to deal with nor is that the kind of culture I would want to build if I were in charge.