Any studies by those entities in the military-academic complex, who benefit from the status quo, should be summarily discounted.

Your emotional connection with the subject matter stemming from your Military Service places your objectivity in severe doubt.

"Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.'" -Isaac Asimov