By Robert H. Scales, War on the Rocks: “Suzy died in the summer of 2005, a time when Ike became, by his own admission, a tortured soul. He was fearful that his signature military reform, the Goldwater-Nichols act of 1986, was failing. Ike’s passion for educational reform in the 1980s was born in the belief that the military had performed so poorly during the invasion of Grenada in 1983 because the services had not learned to fight together.”
By Andrew Loftesnes, Small Wars Journal: “The caliber of a bullet and the damage it does to the enemy is not dependent on the rank of the Marine pulling the trigger. Likewise, in this warfighting organization, the caliber of an idea and the potential impact it can have on battlefield success should not be dependent on the rank of the mind which conceived it.
By Pauline Shanks Kaurin, Strategy Bridge: “Professional Military Education (PME) covers a wide range of activities. In one sense it refers to a plethora of training, continuing education, and other activities designed to provide development to members of the military at various points in their career and to prepare them for the next level of responsibilities. The U.S. military requires professional education for both officers and enlisted personnel and its form, content, and objective varies across rank, service, and military role. But what is its overarching purpose? Why do we invest so much in this effort?”