The mystery seems to be located in the officer ranks. Before the GI Bill, academics were expected to be poor and undistinguished. Since WW II, they are expected to get rich and be rock stars.
The issue seems to be located in the contamination of military colleges with venom from mainstream academia, which was taken over by the effects of Cultural Communism (the Frankfurt School) via "The New Left" of Herbert Marcuse, with the phony intellectual foundation of Michel Foucault.
US citizens are feeling increasingly alienated from their own country, and are becoming both more conservative and more politically active than ever before.
Because they see what the Bush League Republicans and Democrats are doing to their country.
Flooding it with foreigners to steal it from the citizens and subsume it to the UN as part of the Bush Plan for the New World Order.
In addition, as one former Marine explained to me, military people are accustomed to being cared for by a large, well-funded federal bureaucracy. They tend to see political issues as remediable by putting the administrative state in charge, with the right kind of people at the top.
I think you’re making it too complicated.
The military is a top down hierarchy just like any socialist economic command society. People get used to that, also it encourages maintaining the status quo. Paradigm breakers are definitely frowned upon, look at Bill Mitchell, Patton, etc. Also this is necessary when you have a war. Consistent, reliable, repeatable behavior is absolutely required for a military to function. Not the best way to run a society though, look at Sparta! Its societal militaristic customs produced a ferocious military but as conditions changed both outside threats & economic it couldn’t or was too slow to change.
Basically a military is a bureaucracy with guns, bureaucracies tend not to be dynamic.
When my son was in the Marines he said most of his ncos and officers were conservatives. They talked a lot about Obama turning the military against Americans and what they’d do.
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Most of the Democrat military personnel I knew were Democrat because their family voted Democrat.
It’s a fascinating question. I’ve wondered the same for a long time.
Only liberals I saw in the Army worked in Supply or Admin.
It’s by design. Democrats have intentionally packed the military with Leftists, in order to neutralize an enormous bastion of rational thinking and voting. That’s why they were so eager to bring women, homosexuals, transsexual, et al. into the military: to nullify the military as an anti-Democrat Party voting block.
Many signed up for the benefits, such as for education. I think 40% of the military is now minorities, which tend toward liberalism.