User blog comment:AYET/The worth of the Shichibukai to the Marines/@comment-3425840-20130530013138/@comment-4754162-20130530053356

Soul-kun, thanks for the lengthy, thought-provoking response. Always a pleasure to read one of your "good read" comments. The comparison between the two Marineford war factions that you made is interesting.

And about your comments on "stronger than before Marines", frankly I had the same thoughts as you but without thinking deep into it, I casually discarded the thought away.

p.s. The conversation about Luffy's single strongest man-to-man fight, I will KIV this until I have enough material to blog about.

EDIT:

Myth, true that there may be significant promotions within Marine ranks but we have seen almost all of the significant marines during the war but none of the lower-than-Admiral ranked individual showed excellent potentials to be as good as the then 3 admirals' abilities / skills. If a new character pops up into the admiral post (like Issho), then Oda need to have a good flashback or explanation in hand or otherwise its just "plot-convenience" tactic which many may not be happy about.