Expressed like this, military culture-essentially the meanings attached to death and destruction and the threat of death and destruction-can seem like a sinister attempt at the manipulation of people’s lives and ideas.
This culture from above can either successfully help keep the diverse institution organized and transmit back up the line of command the reassuring messages of shared values, or the culture of the upper echelons can lose its hold on the younger men and women down below. Eventually, it meets the diverse emotions and loyalties of very different individuals with very different experiences.
This culture from above originates among a handful of senior officers with a similar education, career and professional experience that started in Vietnam and traversed the American military’s darkest days in the 1970’s. Both are diffused by highly self-conscious leaders and repeated by others, over a complex system of military communications where they stimulate and motivate the sensibilities of individuals throughout the entire military organization.
1American military culture is deployed from the top down along a hierarchical chain of command.
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