The author makes several distinctions on how reading for the purposes of military self-development differs from reading practices in academia.
Shared sacrifice often leads to innovative solutions that make operations more efficient. This requires openness to bottom-up communication.
What happened to the sports college?
The trajectory of developments holds value as a guide to the challenges of the next decade and the education and training needed to meet them.
When an adversary arrives in a form that was unanticipated, an intellectually curious officer will be able to draw upon years of education tested not in the classroom, but in the real world.
The military would benefit from more officers with hard science backgrounds enabling them to solve the challenging problems the military faces in modern wars.
Re-evaluate exactly what we want from our educational system and to strip away the non-essential.
