[ffusco]

It takes 2 points to make a line, or discern a trend. Gulf War 1 was just 1 point. The success of GW2 will re-inforce any latent trends.

[only1percent]

To make real cultural change happens, I think that the military needs to move aggressively into recruiting young officers from top colleges. Right now, it is an very rare for someone graduating from a top 25 college to go into OCS, it's just no on the radar. If a few years as a lieutenant came to be generally thought of at Dartmouth or UVA as as good or as better a prelude to law school or b-school as a few years at McKinsey or in Teach for America, that would really change thing. Recruiting for corporate American is damn slow these days -- this is a perfect opportunity to reinject a tradition of military service into future business and political leaders.