In this article on Military.com, Bryant Jordan relates several suggestions made by Diane Mazur on how the civil-military gap might be narrowed. Among them:
- Services should focus less on selling themselves as the way to a career and more as avenues for people interested in learning some life and work skills, then moving on
- A military attitude adjustment — recognizing that civilian leadership and criticism are essential
- Encourage a wider range of people consider military service such as offering short enlistment periods and taking back jobs in logistics, supply, and cooking that have been outsourced
Mazur, a professor in the Levin College of Law at the University of Florida, is a former Air Force Captain. She recently published a book on the topic titled “A More Perfect Military.”
