Join the military: Searching for adventure and intrigue
But of course people join the military for many reasons. I only want to concentrate on one of them: The individual who joins for combating boredom and is warrior spirited.
On C-Span 3 this afternoon, the highly decorated military man was answering a question from a reporters’ inquiry as to the number of programs involved in the Odyssey Dawn operation currently going on in Libya.
The highly decorated and disciplined military man from the State Department rapidly reeled off about seven or eight jaw dropping operations that included everything from communications jamming of all sorts to propaganda machines. The completed list of the operations I later found on *Wikipedia.
My mind went ballistic while internalizing the individual training and organizational structure involved in each operation. My first and lasting thoughts were human factors. You have to keep the colossal personnel involved in those structures busy and the only way to keep them busy is to allow them to actively participate in their areas of expertise which means, of course, keeping them in a war.
War simulations will no longer work. Simulations are good for training purposes and have their place. However, there are saturation points which come all to quickly for the easily bored and warrior spirited individual of whom I speak.
The worst thing the military could do would be allowing them to become bored. The military would have a heap big problem on their hands if that happens. One of those problems would be for the maverick not re-enlisting or defecting, coming back home with no usable skills for a peaceful society thereby becoming a mis-fit, maybe even a biter one. Many of them would be poorly educated ending up jobless and homeless with military propaganda oozing out of their ying yang. How's that for collateral damage? I am mindful we have over 500 military bases around the world, each needing its portion of 'busy work!'
As always,
BB
* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Odyssey_Dawn
On C-Span 3 this afternoon, the highly decorated military man was answering a question from a reporters’ inquiry as to the number of programs involved in the Odyssey Dawn operation currently going on in Libya.
The highly decorated and disciplined military man from the State Department rapidly reeled off about seven or eight jaw dropping operations that included everything from communications jamming of all sorts to propaganda machines. The completed list of the operations I later found on *Wikipedia.
My mind went ballistic while internalizing the individual training and organizational structure involved in each operation. My first and lasting thoughts were human factors. You have to keep the colossal personnel involved in those structures busy and the only way to keep them busy is to allow them to actively participate in their areas of expertise which means, of course, keeping them in a war.
War simulations will no longer work. Simulations are good for training purposes and have their place. However, there are saturation points which come all to quickly for the easily bored and warrior spirited individual of whom I speak.
The worst thing the military could do would be allowing them to become bored. The military would have a heap big problem on their hands if that happens. One of those problems would be for the maverick not re-enlisting or defecting, coming back home with no usable skills for a peaceful society thereby becoming a mis-fit, maybe even a biter one. Many of them would be poorly educated ending up jobless and homeless with military propaganda oozing out of their ying yang. How's that for collateral damage? I am mindful we have over 500 military bases around the world, each needing its portion of 'busy work!'
As always,
BB
* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Odyssey_Dawn
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