Fear Not the Blue-Haired Soldier?
War on the Rocks
War on the Rocks
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🗓️ 19 February 2018
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
Does the future of warfare demand the U.S. military change its standards for everything from fitness to personal appearance? This question opened up a major debate in the electronic pages of War on the Rocks. So Ryan Evans invited the participants in that debate -- Jacqueline Schneider, Mark Cancian, and Crispin Burke -- to join him on the show and work out everything from why military standards exist to what the wars of the future will look like, along with the warriors who fight them.
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| 0:00.0 | You are listening to the War on the Rocks podcast on strategy, defense, and foreign affairs. |
| 0:14.0 | My name is Ryan Evans. I'm the editor and chief of War on the Rocks. I'm joined today by Jackie Schneider, Crispin Burke, and Mark |
| 0:20.9 | Kansian. We're going to be talking about military personnel policies as they relate to the future of warfare. |
| 0:26.2 | Turned over to my guest to introduce themselves. |
| 0:28.6 | I'm Jacqueline Schneider. I'm an assistant professor at the Naval War College. I'm also a reservist. So I have six years of active duty, time in the Air Force, and six and a half is a reservist in the Air Force. |
| 0:41.0 | My name is Crispin Burke. |
| 0:43.0 | I'm a serving military officer, and therefore, |
| 0:44.9 | none of my views represent those |
| 0:46.4 | of the Department of Defense. |
| 0:47.5 | And like Jacqueline here, we are both drinking |
| 0:50.5 | a nice red bordeaux. |
| 0:53.0 | I'm Mark Kansi and I'm a senior advisor at the Center for Strategic International Studies |
| 0:57.6 | in a retired Marine Colonel and spent many years in the Pentagon. |
| 1:01.6 | Now I write mostly about military budgets and military forces. |
| 1:05.6 | And I'm on the bourbon tonight. |
| 1:07.1 | We just did a podcast where I did Irish whiskey and I thought I'd spread the love a little bit. |
| 1:11.5 | It was Scotch before that. So, Jackie, why don't you kick us off since you started this debate? I'm Warren the Rocks at least. It's obviously a debate that's been going on for a while. Why blue-haired soldiers? |
| 1:23.0 | Yeah, and so I will admit that this is a bit of a polemic looking at the edges really and questioning |
| 1:29.5 | what about our manpower policies are really necessary and what are not useful in new war. |
| 1:36.4 | So for me this was started as a really personal discussion because I was really frustrated |
| 1:42.0 | by this future forces gallery that I would walk through every |
| 1:46.2 | morning that had all these models of unmanned systems and this discussion about future |
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