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ProudNewfoundlander said:Despite the formal apolitical approach the forces takes its no secret that the good majority are conservative ideologically and partisan wise. Same goes for other western countries
Yes, if you read Samuel Huntington's The Soldier and the Sate, you will see that the professional military is conservative but not, necessarily, Conservative - and Sam Huntington was careful to use conservative in its correct, old fashioned sense, not as it is misused in 2011. Conservatives, like the military, value institutions and rules and are suspicious of individualism - most military men are not attracted to Ayn Rand, they prefer Edmund Burke.
That many Canadian military men are suspicious of the Liberal Party of Canada and the NDP is, I suggest, not ideological, but, rather it is based on experience (e.g. Trudeau, etc) and public statements (e.g. Libby Davies).