Why abolishing military ranks creates new hierarchy problems

What happens when a military abolishes ranks and identifies personnel only by their positions?

Authority and equivalence become ambiguous, so the organization eventually recreates a rank-like hierarchy to make command and careers work.

The panel calls the replacement of ranks with position titles an administrative and command nightmare. A title such as platoon commander does not by itself establish equivalence with logistics or staff positions across different units and services. Ranks encode training, experience, and relative authority while allowing people to move between assignments without renegotiating precedence each time. Even an organization that abolishes them will tend to rebuild a disguised hierarchy through increasingly elaborate position labels and local fixes.