PARTNERSHIPS WITH ACADEMIA GIVE MILITARY AN EDGE
Photo by: U.S. Army/Sgt. Brayton Daniel
Wed, 04/06/2022 - 13:08
Maintaining a relationship between the U.S. military and higher education is key to preserving democracy, said Gen. Bob Brown, president and CEO of the Association of the U.S. Army.
Speaking April 6 during an event hosted by the University of North Georgia’s Institute for Leadership and Strategic Studies, Brown said a “close, productive relationship” between the two entities “is really essential to our democratic way of life.”
Unlike previous generations, Americans today are less likely to know a service member, Brown said. This deepens the civilian-military divide, a challenge that the military and academia will need to address.
“Broadening our understanding of war is difficult because of a second challenge: the growing military-civilian gap,” he said. “In the United States on active duty, we have the smallest percentage of individuals serving in a peacetime era since between World War I and World War II.”
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