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No surprises in the article. Smart, dedicated professionals will evaluate everything they can and integrate enhancing TTPs as expeditiously as possible. Cutting edge units have been learning from civilians for decades. No - that doesn't mean everything is applicable but it does mean that smart Soldiers look for advantages wherever they can find them. And yes - MSG Satterlee is absolutely right. Sometimes the military's "conservative" approach to incorporating new TTPs is a detriment. Other times it serves to control the fallout generated by an inverse ratio of enthusiasm to rational expectations.
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A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero (42B.C)
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