Chain of ideas - world domination

During my younger years (I am NOT that old yet) I have imagined myself to be among the most powerful in the world. I thought of myself as a dictator... of the world... World domination was my goal.

After watching several cartoon shows about villains trying to take over the world, I came to realize that the same thing was my goal.

Using my grandfather's globe in his library, I began marking national capitals with masking tapes. I also attached several threads from our country to those world capitals as if marking paths for my invasion forces.

After that, I planned a time table for my conquest with centers of government first to come off. I was not planning on any nuclear strikes then but more on force vs force.

I then elaborately designed force delivery vehicles. I drew several retrofitted oil tankers, submarines, passenger luxury liners, and jumbo jets. All water vessels can deliver heavy equipment like tanks and biped robot gun platforms as well as air and land assault vehicles. The jumbo jets on the other hand can deliver paratroops as well as light assault vehicles from buggies to motorcycles.

These assault units are armed with various weapons from the usual rifles and pistols to energy blasters and nuclear fission munitions.

I even designed several exoskeletons to allow flight as well as wielding of energy weapons powered by micro nuclear power plants. These energy weapons utilize micro particle accelerators based on the cyclotron to those based on the betatron to propel its energy rounds.

If this were true, I would be king of the world!

Chain of ideas - subordinate leadership

The phrase "good leaders are good followers" we can deduce that leaders became good ones because they had been good followers in the past.

But is not only limited to that deduction. Leaders themselves are followers as well. Take military structure for example.

Privates are subordinates to sergeants who have several levels of sergeant-hood.

Sergeants are subordinates themselves to military officers ranging from 2nd Lieutenant up to Colonel. Each officer in that level is subordinate to the next.

These officers are themselves subordinates to various generals from the brigadier to the five-start general with each general subordinate to the one with more stars on their shoulders that what they have.

These generals are likewise subordinates to the senior officials of their defense departments which has it's own hierarchy.

The defense hierarchy is also subordinate to the Commander-in-Chief which is the head of the state or sovereign.

Government leaders themselves are subordinates to the will of the people (in democratic countries as far as I remember). In some cases, the government leaders are subordinates to their campaign contributors, businesses, and, for the case of male leaders, to their wives. :)

This can go on this time considering the "people."

But who is the "leader-est" of them all? Well, each to his own belief. :)