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2012.
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| Summary/Abstract |
When considering how to make the war colleges more effective, it should be remembered that first and foremost, the job of the war colleges is to educate students to make them better defenders of the United States of America and its interests and its allies around the world. However, the author gives many recommendations on how these colleges can better educate, rather than train.
It has been 25 years since the landmark 1986 Goldwater-Nichols Act reformed U.S. national defense. Part of that important legislation specifically mandated guidelines for military education, with intent to open the military culture and to encourage intellectual integration with civilians and among the services themselves. This was followed by the "Skelton Panel," chaired by Rep. Ike Skelton (D-MO). The idea behind both was simple, reflecting the classic wisdom that "the society that separates its scholars from its warriors will have its thinking done by cowards and its fighting done by fools.1 "Over a decade earlier, Admiral Stansfield Turner had similarly reformed the Naval War College (NWC), warning that if military officers could not hold their own with the best civilian strategists, the military would end up "abdicating control over its profession."
In 2010 the House Armed Service Committee issued a report titled Another Crossroads? Profession
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