{"id":81981,"date":"2018-09-25T09:36:44","date_gmt":"2018-09-25T13:36:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=81981"},"modified":"2022-01-13T20:33:36","modified_gmt":"2022-01-14T01:33:36","slug":"the-virtue-of-military-service-is-a-myth-and-it-is-destroying-this-country","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=81981","title":{"rendered":"The virtue of Military Service is a Myth and it is destroying this country."},"content":{"rendered":"

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Careful Citizen, having reverence for those who served in the military erodes our Democracy.<\/p>\n

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The gap in civilian and military experiences in the United States over the 17 years since 9\/11 has led to persuasive, persistent, and unrealistic myths that have eroded faith in civilian leadership of defense policy. Among these myths are the superior virtue of military over other kinds of public service; that battlefield experience is the most authoritative source of military policy expertise; and that an exclusively civilian background is inadequate for strategic defense leadership. In the United States, these myths are nurtured and perpetuated by both military and civilian communities and affect general public opinion as well as the attitudes of national security professionals. These myths are also corrosive. Unless they are acknowledged, addressed, and challenged, future civilian leaders may struggle to control the use of force\u2014a profound problem for a democratic system. Downgrading civilian leadership will weaken U.S. national security and the military itself.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I thought having experience in the field you were administering was a good thing.\u00a0 \u00a0Silly me.<\/p>\n

The myth with which the majority of Americans are most familiar is the notion that military service tops the hierarchy of civic duties. The Pew Research Center\u00a0found\u00a0<\/a>in 2011 that 83 percent of American adults believe military personnel and their families have had to make sacrifices since 9\/11, but at the same time less than half the population believes the American public has shared the burden of war. The kernel of truth underlying this perception has grown into a sense that there is a deficit on the civilian side of U.S. society.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Civilians have made and equal sacrifice to those who serve in the military?\u00a0 Someone explain this to me.<\/p>\n

Veterans are often offered early boarding for airplanes. Harris Teeter grocery stores provide preferred parking for veterans. Veterans\u2019 issues top the list for dozens of major charities and are included among the charitable giving priorities of corporate foundations. On the one hand, this is all as it should be: Admiring and expressing gratitude for military service, especially in wartime, is simply the right thing for a society to do. The problem is that admiration for military service eclipses respect for other national-level institutions and other forms of service. In today\u2019s polarized political environment, the chasm has put those in uniform in the awkward position of embodying civic virtue.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I had no idea my service to this country was eroding Democracy.<\/p>\n

A\u00a0Washington Post<\/em>\/Kaiser Family Foundation poll of veterans\u00a0found\u00a0<\/a>in 2013 that nearly half believe the American public doesn\u2019t genuinely respect their service.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Shocked face.<\/p>\n

A 2017\u00a0Gallup poll\u00a0<\/a>found Americans\u2019 trust in the military is more than twice what it is for the presidency and six times higher than faith in Congress.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Well, we can’t have that.\u00a0 Americans trusting in the military has to be stopped.\u00a0 \u00a0We should all entrust our safety to some Commie Pinko babe from NY.\u00a0 \u00a0We should put people who have no idea what the military is all about in charge of protecting us and stop this reverence\u00a0for those who served before it destroys this nation.<\/p>\n

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