Old weapons mean old tactics. Nothing was safer in the crabbed minds of these men than the risk of failed ventures. To Dixon's mind, it is the military or thereterians lack of emotional maturity that makes him or her so dangerous to the organization even once seated liberally with other authoritarians. The worst mischief happens when they are promoted to supreme command, not because they overreach but because they have risen to that rank by obeying orders. Suddenly, with no one above them, they become unmoored,. which is a scary thing, right? Who gets promoted? I'm promoting the person that obeyed me.