Societies need military people {military personality}. The military profession has skills and conduct codes. It requires elaborate rules for maintaining order and discipline.
aggression
The military practices aggressive behavior that is forbidden inside society, so it must distinguish between society members and outsiders. It provides legitimate outlets for controlled aggression. It must control aggressive behaviors.
candidates
The military can be a good environment for people that lack inner controls. It provides security, strong institution, and substitute parent.
leadership
Military commanders make most decisions using partial and uncertain information, under psychological pressure and physical danger {leadership, military}. Militaristic personality is not adaptive for commanders.
Personality {militaristic personality} can be authoritarian, rigid, and obsessive. It exhibits defense mechanisms used against anxiety and aggression. Militaristic personality traits include inflexibility, low imagination, grandiose speech, obedience, new-information blockage, conservatism, and conformism. It is adaptive for soldiers and lower ranking officers.
soldier
The military needs people {soldier} that can withstand war shocks {robustness, personality}, have no introversion, do not have complex personalities, and are moldable.
Militaristic personality can cause military error patterns {military failure}. Failures use more force than needed, leaving other places unprotected or wasting resources. They are too slow in attack or defense. They follow military tradition or are too conservative on attack or defense. They are indecisive. They show obstinate persistence. They make frontal assaults on enemy's strongest points. They do not finish attack or exploit situation. They underestimate enemy and overestimate their abilities.
information
They misuse or do not use available technology. They reject new information, which is often bad or conflicts with preconceptions. They lack reconnaissance. They use force alone, rather than using trick. They lack surprise or deception.
They use belief in mystical forces, fate, and bad luck.
openness
The military often refuses to admit past mistakes, finds scapegoats for military setbacks, and suppresses or distorts news from the front.
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