> how confident can you generally be with applying your expertise/giving advice, when you yourself learn about the circumstances from secondary sources?
How do doctors know about diseases they haven't had themselves?
Someone who's experienced one specific conflict, even first hand, may know less than someone who's studied a range of conflicts and derived and war-gamed doctrine from what they saw.
How do doctors know about diseases they haven't had themselves?
Someone who's experienced one specific conflict, even first hand, may know less than someone who's studied a range of conflicts and derived and war-gamed doctrine from what they saw.