The discussion asks when corruption or poor oversight becomes severe enough to impede military action. British shell design and testing before Jutland provide a case where accepted practices had begun to damage combat effectiveness. The battle made those failures unacceptable and prompted rapid correction. Reliable shells and torpedoes then became an enforced institutional expectation.
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Jutland shell failures and quality control
Jutland's shell-performance failures illustrate the point at which institutional corruption begins to undermine combat reliability.