Professional Military Education: The Current Debate  

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Our military’s service academies and ROTC programs are the best in the world, yet learning must continue as soldiers remain in the service. Warriors matching the strength of a Spartan hoplite, the flexibility of a Roman legionnaire, and the brilliant tactical mind of a Hannibal or Scipio are commissioned every year. As we face new domains of warfare in space and in cyberspace, officers who understand the past and anticipate the future will be well prepared to adapt the world’s finest military to new ways of war.

  Ike Skelton, Former Chairman, House Armed Services Committee  

The Future of National Defense and the U.S. Military Ten Years after 9/11: Perspectives of Former Chairmen of the Committees on Armed Services, 12 October 2011

As military men and women, ours is the profession of arms. But it’s also a profession of scholarly pursuit. As Thucydides once wrote, ‘The nation that makes great distinction between its scholars and its warriors will have its thinking done by cowards and its fighting done by fools’.

                                                         ADM. James Stavridis

 Let Us Dare. Australian Defence Force Journal, iss. no. 181,
 2010, p. 72

No one could emerge from the experience of the last war without a most profound respect for the contribution to victory made by men trained in the liberal arts.

                                                     Dwight D. Eisenhower

Liberal Education in the Military Forces,  Journal of General Education, October 1946, p. 1

Professional military education (PME) – PME conveys the broad body of knowledge and develops the habits of mind essential to the military professional’s expertise in the art and science of war.

          CJCSI 1800.01D CH 1;

           15 September 2011; GL-8

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