ABSTRACT
Academics and most members of the military have very different understandings of the meaning of the word, and those differences lie at the root of a significant gap in the academic-military relationship. For commentary on anti-intellectualism in the armed forces Matthews 2002a and 2002b. Lest they be accused of too much navel gazing, hundreds of academics in the military's employ leave behind their professional standards and spend most of their time doing work that they know any reasonably bright master's student could handle. The military seems to know something more to tell its history, provide the intellectual foundation for its actions, and to educate, than just train people. And so the tension threatens to become artificial: because there are folks with PhDs around, too many in the military think service members are navel gazing, but they are only doing it Google deep. The tension between academic and military culture for academics working in the military will never go away entirely.
