Book 7 Question

After the conclusion of Season six, I was way too tickled to stop there so I have been reading and just finished Persepolis Rising. It was fantastic! I cant wait to start the next book.

Now on to my question...

>!Why does Duarte choose Singh to be the governor of Medina? The more I think about this it just not make any sense to me.

Yes we do have the explanation from the Tempest Admiral, telling Singh that they are trying to season their young and inexperienced command staff, however this makes no sense to me.

Polishing stones is what the military hierarchy is built to do, put senior leadership in command and less experienced officers in 2IC roles. That way they can learn off the experienced leaders as they grow, the military naturally does this really well.

Medina is critical to Laconia's plans, without control of Medina, Laconia would be shut out of the gate system. Their state of the art techonology useless if the gates get overloaded when they try to go through. And they put it in charge of an asbolutely noobie, who has flown one quick command in his life.

Throughout the book we often see Duarte described as highly intelligent/genius, but this just seems outright dumb. Yes Singh is described as being a logistical master, so make him logistics officer for the station, not the governor.

Anyway, those are my thoughts, anything im missing!<