As a second Trump term becomes possible, the literary world of military pundits is ablaze with articles, recommendations, and ideas on how to reform the Department of Defense in a second Trump Administration.
All of the military services send their promising O-4s, O-5s, and O-6s to advanced degree-producing programs at civilian universities, with the choicest schooling opportunities happening at Ivy League universities.
You probably know the service academies, but the service and joint service "War Colleges" are equally important in building military culture and skills.
In the DoD, career SES members sit in some of the highest and most influential offices in the Pentagon and the military agencies, wielding enormous power over defense budgets, material acquisition, warfighting doctrine, personnel policies, and force structure.
If they don't like what their military boss tells them to do, they can obfuscate, delay, bluster, and just generally wait until a new military boss shows up, then the cycle can start again.
This bloated, careerist system of never-changing bureaucracy contributes immeasurably to the civilianization of the military and the diminishment of the Warrior Ethos and is a great inhibitor to meaningful structural change.
I am entirely confident that the above recommendations can halt the civilianization of our military and serve as a great start to restoring an essential warfighting focus.
https://amgreatness.com/2024/11/03/restoring-the-warrior-ethos-to-the-trump-military/
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