Hamiltonian
Member
"BURIED IN THE NEWS last week was one of the most potentially significant stories of recent years. The Military Times released its annual poll of active-duty service members, and the results showed something virtually unprecedented: a one-year decline of 10 percentage points in the number of military personnel identifying themselves as Republicans. In the 2004 poll, the percentage of military respondents who characterized themselves as Republicans stood at 60%. By the end of 2005, that had dropped to 56%. And by the end of 2006, the percentage of military Republicans plummeted to 46%.
The drop in Republican Party identification among active-duty personnel is a sharp reversal of a 30-year trend toward the "Republicanization" of the U.S. military, and it could mark a sea change in the nature of the military and the nature of public debates about national security issues..."
You can find the rest of the article here:
http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-oe-brooks5jan05,0,3406790.column?coll=la-opinion-center
Although I do not support some of his ideas at the end of the article about a primarily Republican Military being dangerous, but I thought that it was interesting that there was this shift in the military. It makes me wonder how morale is doing.
The drop in Republican Party identification among active-duty personnel is a sharp reversal of a 30-year trend toward the "Republicanization" of the U.S. military, and it could mark a sea change in the nature of the military and the nature of public debates about national security issues..."
You can find the rest of the article here:
http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-oe-brooks5jan05,0,3406790.column?coll=la-opinion-center
Although I do not support some of his ideas at the end of the article about a primarily Republican Military being dangerous, but I thought that it was interesting that there was this shift in the military. It makes me wonder how morale is doing.