> Their entire argument for this also applying outside the military domain seems to be that the military is a very large employer… However, is not the military

> Their entire argument for this also applying outside the military domain seems to be that the military is a very large employer… However, is not the military a vastly different environment from normal civilian workplaces? It’s not vastly different from other professions except software. Source: I have been in the U.S. Army for 25 years and I have been a corporate software developer for 16 years. The only valid question is not what makes the military unique but instead what makes software unique. The answer: a complete absence of professionalism. I wrote about this here: https://github.com/prettydiff/wisdom/blob/master/Leadership_In_Software.md https://github.com/prettydiff/wisdom/blob/master/Leadership_... Edit: corrected the hyperlink.