THE MILITARY CULTURE AND THE STRATEGIC ART
THE MILITARY CULTURE AND THE STRATEGIC ART

Summary/Abstract: The military profession seems pragmatic and, within this framework, it is free of creative artistic and theoretic complexities, geopolitics paradigms and cultural vocations. There is still, for some of us, a very simple logic, even simplistic, according to which the soldier must only carry out orders. For a soldier, other individuals must think. Or, in any case, the soldier’s thinking should limit utmost to the strategic domain, specifically, to the ways and methods to put into practice a political decision related to a war or any other type of military involvement. These methods (the art and science), to put into practice a political decision, represent the most current definition given to strategy. The culture, for a soldier, would be a waste of time and useless. Unfortunately, a vision like this is not totally foreign to us, Romanians. Some of us consider that the soldier should be military and nothing more. His or her profession is so dense, risky and demanding that there is no more time for anything else, anything including culture. Moreover, the culture would be a disturbing factor that will distract from the professional framework and could become more sophisticated. Those who share these opinions forget or do not know that, in fact, culture is the first condition for human existence and evolution. The culture is the mandatory support of any profession within the cognitive society, including the military one.

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