"Harry Krause" wrote in message

*Why* the military wants college graduates is a question I cannot answer.

Thucydides answered it some 2400 years ago when he wrote...

"That state which separates its scholars from its warriors will have its
thinking done by cowards, and its fighting by fools."

I would have thought that a bright, educated guy like you would have known
that.

"John Gaquin" wrote in message
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"Harry Krause" wrote in message

*Why* the military wants college graduates is a question I cannot answer.

Thucydides answered it some 2400 years ago when he wrote...

"That state which separates its scholars from its warriors will have its
thinking done by cowards, and its fighting by fools."

I would have thought that a bright, educated guy like you would have known
that.



Thinking done by cowards.....that part is certainly true.