Political Outlooks of US Military Officers

Yoshie Furuhashi furuhashi.1 at osu.edu
Sun Mar 30 07:31:36 PST 2003


***** ...Those who warn of a warrior class cite a study by the Triangle Institute for Security Studies in North Carolina showing that between 1976 and 1996 the percentage of military officers who saw themselves as nonpartisan or politically independent fell from more than 50 percent to less than 20 percent. The main beneficiary of this shift has been the Republican Party.

"The officer corps has always been more conservative," said Richard H. Kohn, a professor of military history at the University of North Carolina. "But even so, the change there is dramatic."...

(David M. Halbfinger and Steven A. Holmes, "Military Mirrors Working-Class America," NYT, March 30, 2003<http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/30/international/worldspecial/30DEMO.html>) ***** -- Yoshie

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