Quote Originally Posted by Bill Jakola View Post

My question is how do we, as a profession of arms, establish clear roles and develop our military leaders to operate within those established boundaries?
The Cuban Missile Crisis is an interesting example. The Army had another option to offer the President largely because it had a different Strategy on how to fight a war. The Army had a Missile-Counter Missile-Civil Defense Plan that was largely different than the other services. I saw this up close and personal and the Army has never received the proper credit for preventing WW3-IMO.

The point being if the Army concentrates on offering differant policy advice(option) than everybody else it will be easier to develop a proper curriculum for the PME of it's soldiers. It would also increase its ability to influence policy simply because it is differant. Just my opinion.