This posting is in reply to the admin staff "slimy" who told an anti-military poster to check his facts on education. At a military conference in 1998, a report was issued about the sorry state of leadership and education in Canada's military. The author writes...
"Ours became a military that prided itself on its inability to think. And ours was a military that in the mid-1990s had only half its officers with undergraduate degrees and only seven percent with graduate degrees. This despite the fact that in 1947, Chief of the General Staff Charles Foulkes (one of few officers then with a BA) argued that the technological nature of war required that all officers have a degree."
((From an article "Conference of Defence Associations Institute: First Annual Graduate Student Symposium. (CANADA) 13-14 November 1998"))
This article was about officers' lack of edcuation, but it safe to assume that statistics for lower ranking soldiers would even lower. This only proves most Canadians' suspicions: that most soldiers and recruits are unintellectual, even the ranking officers. How sad. Regular Canadians have university degrees (about 2/3 according to StatsCan) Education might be subsidized by the military, but soldiers aren't interested in it. It says alot.
Face it: The CF is little more than a repository for lost young Canadians. Ottawa wants to send them overseas to kill or be killed, at public expense no less! Very, very sad indeed.
Signed,
antiwarguy