Which teaches officers more, engineering or the humanities?
Comment of the day goes to “Rubber Ducky,” who made this observation in the discussion earlier this week of the Naval Academy: It’s a long time since the US was out-engineered in a war (like never), but one can point to Vietnam, Iraq, and Afghanistan as three examples of a failure of human understanding, the ...
Comment of the day goes to “Rubber Ducky,” who made this observation in the discussion earlier this week of the Naval Academy:
It’s a long time since the US was out-engineered in a war (like never), but one can point to Vietnam, Iraq, and Afghanistan as three examples of a failure of human understanding, the subject of the humanities.
I’ve studied military education some, but had never quite heard that thought expressed so well.
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