I was a mid-grade Captain when it just struck me like a ton of bricks what a quintessentially socialist system the military is. From soup to nuts. With two key things that made it work, more or less. One, it was, generally, and certainly for the career crowd, a personal choice to stay in. Yes, draftees are an outlier of sort... except when you look at the sometimes rather compulsory aspects of socialism.Two, it was dependent upon (and worked because) of all the inputs from outside the system; i.e...