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American Civil-Military Relations: The Soldier and the State in a New Era, edited by Suzanne C. Nielsen and Don M. Snider, Baltimore, Md., Johns Hopkins University Press, is reviewed in the Spring...

In the Summer 2010 issue of Parameters, the War College quarterly, there is an historic overview of the involvement of U.S. military officers in politics. According to the author:



The article...

One of my main concerns about the Profession of Arms in the U.S. is that we now seem to be more concerned about the smooth functioning of our administrative and logistical processes rather than...

Most of our decisions to go to war are driven by domestic politics. Usually that translates into the ill-defined goal of "doing something" to solve or have the appearance of solving a foreign policy...

Oh wow man, kinda makes you want to freak out, you know? :eek: :confused:

In 1982 when I was in a 105mm howitzer battalion I was given the assignment of interviewing one of our soldiers who had decided he was a conscientious objector and wanted to be released from the...

True, but Napier also said, "So perverse is mankind that every nationality prefers to be misgoverned by its own people than to be well ruled by another."

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Halt, this is the Apostrophe Police. The word "its" only has an apostrophe when it is a contraction of "it is." Drop and give me two zero and go and sin no more.

Chuck G., what does CAPE stand for?

There's morality and then there's morality. When I was in OCS in '77 we had a lecture on the Law of Land Warfare in the auditorium of Infantry Hall at Fort Benning. The instructor described a...

Speaking of the Profession of Arms, the Army-speak that has creeped into our doctrinal writings over the last 20 years drives me up the wall. Soldiers should be plain-speaking guys who say what they...

The Airborne guys I knew used to say it was the Profession of Legs that brought the Army low. ;)