Mapping Major Jonathan Buckland's tooth-to-tail ratio onto software systems — watching how over-optimised architectures shatter under stress.
🪖 Inspired by Major Jonathan Buckland's West Point article "The Glass Backbone — Why the Army's Logistics Will Break in the Next War". The tooth-to-tail ratio maps onto the same blind spot that leaves COBOL mainframes with no graceful degradation and microservices with no circuit breakers.