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I'm in @ForeignPolicy again, this time talking about how the frequent mobilization of a 'warrior' ideology by the U.S. military is in fact very bad and fundamentally incompatible with a free society.
Also the header picture they used is hilarious and I love it.https://twitter.com/BeijingPalmer/status/1384256143623548934 …
What I can't stress enough is that this stuff matters. There is, I think, a tendency to dismiss this kind of analysis as just some pencil-necked nonsense. But people pick up on the implications of the language you use, and if the army keeps telling soldiers...
...that they are 'warriors,' and thus a unique class apart, it is going to erode - indeed, it is *already eroding* - the ethos of citizen-soldier service that a free country depends on to defend itself.
So I go into a lot more depth as to how this damaging myth forms and is structured in a blog series: https://acoup.blog/2021/01/29/collections-the-universal-warrior-part-i-soldiers-warriors-and/ … But the bad news is that the 'warrior' ideology guys have warriors right, historically speaking. It's just that warriors are a bad thing.
Great piece; I always considered myself a citizen-soldier while serving and was sort of surprised that this attitude or approach wasn’t more common. I didn’t recognize how intentional “warrior culture” was then. Maybe it’s gotten worse over the years
I think it has. I think there's a number of GWOT impacts driving it - focus on SF over regular soldiers in for just one tour, increased physical isolation, but also mental isolation from a public that forgot we were even at war years ago.
We need more chariot related discussions . . .
This is really good. Also prompts some reflection about how military 'warrior' culture filters down into various strains of 'wannabe' culture. Which I suppose gets filtered back into military culture via recruiting.
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