en-us https://www.intensedebate.com/users/1504130 Comments by rmhitchens http://www.samefacts.com/2014/07/domestic-politics/military-education-apparently/#IDComment857574317 Standards must really have slipped within the military's higher education system. When I attended the National Defense Intelligence College back in the mid-80s, this accredited graduate school (obviously much lower in prestige than the National War College) required, in addition to coursework for a Master's degree, either two 30-page scholarly papers or a full-blown thesis. I did the latter over the course of a year, although it was also a classified intelligence report of considerable length, the only difference being that I footnoted the hell out of it for the version I submitted to NDIC, which is not common practice for routine intelligence studies. Thu, 24 Jul 2014 20:43:31 +0000 http://www.samefacts.com/2014/07/domestic-politics/military-education-apparently/#IDComment857574317 http://defensetech.org/2010/07/29/mattis-still-supports-light-coin-plane-air-force-wants-dead/#IDComment89584923 Alas, my old service -- a successful 20th century organization -- is adrift in the postmodern, post-9/11 world in which we find ourselves. They need to 1) get serious about UAV operators as a distinctive career track not requiring UPT graduates, and 2) grab any manned aircraft opportunities that come along. Like this turbo-COIN machine. As some guy said a few years ago, the times they are a changin'. Thu, 29 Jul 2010 16:35:40 +0000 http://defensetech.org/2010/07/29/mattis-still-supports-light-coin-plane-air-force-wants-dead/#IDComment89584923