Replacing frontier veterans with urban administrators deepened Granada’s instability

Evidence

On the Christian side there was a parallel destabilizing development. The original generation of men who had fought the wars of the Reconquest, who “knew their Moors” from long direct experience and knew the terrain of the frontier because they had fought over it so many times, came to be replaced by fresh incomers, administrators and lawyers, often quite out of touch with the rapidly changing realities of life away from the cities where they preferred to live. — L. P. Harvey, Muslims in Spain, 1500 to 1614, 245

Categorization

• XREF: Parallel to the diamond trade reading where expertise and physical knowledge of a domain matters more than administrative credentials (Opting out of the Legal System).