Thanks Richard. That was a good read. Although I must admit that I need to reread it again to fully absorb a lot of what was outlined. What I found interesting was in the conclusion,
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If as a nation, the United States is unwilling to directly oppose the rise of a Warrior Class, action should be taken to ensure it consistently derives its legitimacy from the population and never comes to adhere to an ideology inconsistent with broader American values.
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Derives its legitimacy from the population?...I don't see how this is even remotely possible given the liberal stretch that most of the populace is putting towards their "American values."
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This can be accomplished through increased civil schooling opportunities, a broadened focus on community involvement, and through programs that increase opportunities for college students and trade workers to learn together with military members. Programs such as ACS should be expanded to include variations which send NCO’s to school for their Bachelor’s Degrees and that bring college students into military schools for a year to share ideas. The military should actively and aggressively recruit the best and brightest professors in academia for teaching positions with the military, even if this means increased cost. Additionally, military officers possessing PhD’s should be accepted into temporary teaching positions at our nation’s finest universities. Only through a consistent and aggressive campaign designed to keep the process of learning and developing future generations together can we ensure we avoid ideological divergence between a potential Warrior Class and the population itself.
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I say the genie is out of the bottle on that one. That divergence has already occured as a result of the 10 plus years of fighting done by a very small segment of the population while America has gone about it's way going to the mall.
Of course now that we're shutting down on one front and winding down on another there's talk of how expensive it is for our long term care, retirement benefits, education, etc. It's easy to feel like there's a divergence when the elected officials of the country split away from you.