Open Source Analysis of WikiLeaks?

[AmericanPride]

The glorification is actually quite recent (say after 1940 or so), and I honestly don't think you'd find a draftee force any more reliable under your criteria.

The issue isn't the all-volunteer concept itself, but the employment of a glorified all-volunteer military used in an expeditionary manner for the occasional controversial political objective. The Iraq leak could not reconcile the two, and decided to expose what he thought to be criminal and immoral behavior. Soldiers are encouraged, after all, to act with integrity and personal courage, and the Army's own values led him in that direction. There is a cognitive dissonance at the core of this issue. One solution is to screen volunteers for their political reliability.

[Steve Blair]

The issue isn't the all-volunteer concept itself, but the employment of a glorified all-volunteer military used in an expeditionary manner for the occasional controversial political objective. The Iraq leak could not reconcile the two, and decided to expose what he thought to be criminal and immoral behavior. Soldiers are encouraged, after all, to act with integrity and personal courage, and the Army's own values led him in that direction. There is a cognitive dissonance at the core of this issue. One solution is to screen volunteers for their political reliability.

And again, if you look back, we've been here before with an all-volunteer force. You're focusing on the wrong issue. It's not so much political reliability as it is saturation of information combined with over-classification.

[Ken White]

And again, if you look back, we've been here before with an all-volunteer force. You're focusing on the wrong issue. It's not so much political reliability as it is saturation of information combined with over-classification.

Not to mention there is no way to 'enforce' political reliability. None. You can't even screen for it in hiring as many people will change in strange ways as they grow older...