Reference: Which Army? Minutemen or Legionnaires?

10 Security, 11 Society, Cultural Intelligence, DoD, Military, Officers Call
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Marcus Aurelius
Attached 17-page (12 plus footnotes) paper is worth reading.  Much to agree with, little to dispute.  Major thesis is that Army has, since about 1989, transformed from a citizen force that may go nowhere for decades to a professional legion that deploys operationally on a routine basis.
The single part that most seized me is that portion of the abstract that reads, “… In the midst of a civilian society that is increasingly pacifistic, easygoing, and well adjusted, the Army (career and non-career soldiers alike) remains flinty, harshly results-oriented, and emotionally extreme.  The inevitable civil-military gap has become a chasm.”

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