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.
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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