The Utility of Janowitz’s Political Awareness in Officer Education

In the pages of this journal, Damon Coletta and Tom Crosbie published a response to our article entitled, “The Continuing Relevance of Morris Janowitz’s The Professional Soldier for the Education of Officers.” In that article, we argued that Janowitz’s emphasis on the need for political awareness in the U.S. military should receive greater attention in the education of today’s officer corps. Coletta and Crosbie suggest that we are too ready to abandon Samuel Huntington’s classic work, The Soldier and the State. In this continuation of that dialogue, we respond with three clarifications and three substantive disagreements. Huntington and Janowitz offer divergent perspectives on the issues of officer education and “political virtue,” we suggest, and Janowitz’s perspective deserves greater weight that it has traditionally received. Coletta and Crosbie also place greater emphasis on the separability of political and military affairs than is warranted, and Janowitz is more helpful here as well.

Air Force Education at the RCAF Staff College, 1945–1955

Thanks to the Reichswehr's secret planning and preparation, a thoroughly well-prepared training and education system for the Luftwaffe was already functioning when Hitler came to power in 1933. During the next two years, through the visionary leadership of Walter Wever and the brilliant work of Hans-Jürgen Stumpf in recruiting the initial cadre of the Luftwaffe, the Luftwaffe created a cadre air force with good officer leadership. By 1935 the Luftwaffe, now an open force, was ready for a systematic and well-organized expansion program, and its officer education program quickly reached maturity with a range of basic courses for every officer, an intermediate officer course, and two complementary general staff courses. While the Luftwaffe had many serious weaknesses the interwar officer education system was not one of them.

ANALISIS YURIDIS FUNGSI DAN PERAN TENAGA PENDIDIK DALAM PEMBENTUKAN BINTARA DI SPN POLDA METRO JAYA

Police efforts in achieving the educational goals has not come true as well. Jakarta Police SPN even further behind the other Police-Police found in Indonesia. Indicators not maximal achievement of educational goals Police use them visible on the lower end of the exam results Education and Formation (Diktuk) Police Officer Polda Metro Jaya on the NES. The role of educators is expected to print the candidates NCO Professional Police so that they can run their police duties properly in accordance with the ethics of the police which is based on the Tribrata. The method used in this research is the method of juridical sociological (empirical). The establishment of the Police Officer Education is an education to establish and equip students to be members of the police who have the knowledge, skills, abilities, commendable attitude and behavior in the context of carrying out police duties that come from the general public with the lowest level of high school graduates who have passed the various required tests such as administration and others.