Tuesday, October 26, 2021

You Bolshies you

"I have already adverted to the fact that the report concludes, following Col. Wigmore's letter, as you remember, that if you loosen up on this system of discipline, as you call it, you are bound to have bolshevism. That is the bugaboo now. There will never be a bit of reform or a bit of progressive legislation proposed but that the people who insist on being static will label it bolshevism."

Mr. Samuel T. Ansell, speaking to the Subcommittee on Military Affairs, United States Senate, August 20, 1919, on Establishment of Military Justice--Proposed Amendment of the Articles of War, at 293.





You can read more about the Ansell-Crowder controversy in a piece by Fred L. Borch.


Perhaps we may be forgiven for feeling a sense of déjà vu, or cognitive empathy, as we have our own experiences with military justice reform.

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