ABSTRACT
This chapter explains the less obvious characteristics that differentiate soldiers from civilians and give the Militia its distinctive character. It focuses on the Militia so that it can be understood in greater depth as a military and a civic institution. When social scientists consider the military, they usually mean the full-time or regular army, navy, and air force. The designation of certain occupations as excepted from liability to wartime military service would affect military and civilian sectors and should feature in the problems studied at the National Defense College. The term honor is especially apposite because it reflects a concept that is intrinsic to military ideology and its links with chivalry. One plausible explanation of the apprehension among the military toward conventional civilian education, especially since Vietnam, has been the suspicion that the academe is influenced strongly by pacifism and is staffed by many people who profess conscientious objection to armed service.
