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Originally Posted by Sdiver
Those that want to serve, choose to do so, and in some ways, wants to be there.
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And therein lies the crux of the problem - the military reflects the makeup of those who chose to serve. The leadership reflects the makeup of those who chose to lead combat arms units. And that's how it should be. We have enough opportunities for herbivores in CS/CSS, we don't need them leading carnivores, nor do they need to be in charge of combat formations. And for the politically correct out there - combat is what the military exists for. Deter if possible, win when deterence inevitably fails.
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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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