But it didn't come from on top, and that was my principle objection. That is the part of curriculum development I'm familiar with. In order for that to happen, a skill or behaviour from the US Army training manual has to be stripped out, analyzed, and condensed its bare bones so that a lesson can be developed to produce the skill or behaviour. It gets seen by a lot of people: and I guarantee you that if that happened, you would have seen reporting much earlier, and it would have been reporting attributed to specific people and documents from TRADOC out in Ft Leavenworth.
That is how the Army works. All the services work that way.
It didn’t come from the top?
You think this is the first time this has come up?
Whether it be military or federal law enforcement, this has become quite common.
Does the military’s formal curriculum - that’s gone through the process you describe - tell the individual presenters to present information on which specific groups are extremist? Is that one of the skills that military members are supposed to have?