Military people are sent to ALL colleges in the country. They practice equal opportunity hiring and they send you to whatever school you are eligible for or in the area of. Their education policies will send you to Harvard if you qualify. For me it is an issue of performance. We largely have a non-performance intellectual driven type form of work that doesn't produce much of ultimate significance other than keeping people at work doing things that subvert their talents and potential. My experience of most of the private sector is that it resembles uncomfortably the movie the Matrix in which people are asleep and dreaming about performance and living but are surrounded by "ghosts" who seem to indicate that there is so much more. The military has some rather sinister purposes but it still operates on a more honest mandate than world business.
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I would once again encourage "you [all]" to read
Robert Coram's biography of John R. ("Jack") Boyd,
_Boyd: The Pilot Who Changed the Art of War_ (Little Brown,
2002).The military top brass mostly -- although not without exceptions! -- come off looking prety bad in this portrayal of one very determined, brilliant, and not always politically adroit man's attempt to make the U.S. military be all it could be in the Cold War and then in the new age of asymmetrical warfare.
The plus side: Boyd got promoted to Colonel instead of being thrown out on the street. The minus side: Boyd never made even 1 star [General], and yet he is recognized around the world as a military genius. I have previously said that Boyd is the most astute person I have ever heard lecture -- he was a real joy to listen to (for me, at least).
Boyd is a martyr for our time.
Perhaps today we have a new martyr [JG -- Boyd was big time]: British WMD scientist David Kelly. I, for one, would feel some measure of decency was belatedly shown if British PM Blair would commit sepeku now.
\brad mccormick
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Let your light so shine before men,
that they may see your good works.... (Matt 5:16)Prove all things; hold fast that which is good. (1 Thes 5:21)
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