The speaker expects army leadership quality and soldier count to be complementary: excellent leadership with an army of only 100 people would not get very far.

“like i think um it's much harder if you're talking about something like uh complementarity between uh labor and capital or complementary between like remote work and in-person work or like skilled or unskilled work and like there there are inputs pairs for which i would expect it to be much more difficult or like for example you're looking at the complementarity between like the quality of leadership of an army and its number of soldiers right i mean”

“that there is some effect there like if you just scale up you just have excellent like leadership but your army only has 100 people you're”

“not like you're not gonna get like very far so”