Posted by Michael M. O'Leary from Owen Sound ON Canada on November 21, 2021 at 16:17:00:
In Reply to: Bachelor of Arts in Weekend Warrioring? posted by Dickey on November 20, 2021 at 23:04:49:
If lack of 'degreed' officers is such a significant weakening element, why has the officer corps not evolved into two distinct and readily identifiable groups: the "degreed, thinking" and the "non-educated, non-thinking". They have not, because education is not the root casue of the problem. It is the degree of hierarchical conformity which should be exanmined more closely. Those officers which allow themselves to become moral slaves to every bad idea of a weak system, whether educated or not, become part of the problem. Those trying to be part of the solution, because they don't conform to the system, fail to achieve promotion. They then leave, by dismissal, quitting in disgust or simply to seek a work environment which allows them to be thinking individuals.- this is our (rumoured) brain drain.
Higher average education CAN lead to a stronger officer corps and an improved military. BUT only if the environment these "new" officers are expected to perform within is changed sufficiently to allow them to do so.
By all means, lets have a better educated officer corps, but let's not delude ourselves into thinking that this single element is, itself, a solution.