Political Outlooks of US Military Officers

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

*****   ...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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