An “Angry Staff Officer” writes for Wired magazine about how, as of The Mandolorian Episode 14, Imperial Stormtroopers are finally started to understand battle tactics.

Charging forward and yelling “Blast ‘em” seemed to be the limit of their ability to employ fire and maneuver against their enemies. It’s as if their strategic development had begun with the assault wave tactics of 1914 or the Soviet human waves at Stalingrad and then just stayed there forever. If you don’t have to worry about recruitment and retention, body counts aren’t a metric that drive organizational change.

In 'The Mandalorian,' Stormtroopers Have Finally Discovered Tactics