![]() The emerging aristocracy generally remain warriors forming a warrior class, while their social inferiors begin to be conscript-soldiers or mercenaries. This is a slow gradual development and of course there are overlaps. Thus the military structure changes to specialization of labor too. Agriculture allows larger demographics and more complex social structures which develop hierarchies and specialization of labor. Tribal societies (hunter-gathers and small agricultural communities) have social structures and demographics that produce reasonably egalitarian societies, and here all males are warriors, and these warriors basically fit the traits I list below. Both warriors and soldiers can be militarists both in this narrow definition and in more standard definitions of militarist. For people (of course nearly always men) who self-actualize in war I use the term “militarists”. Hit men, murders, torturers, serial killers, priests performing a sacrifice, etc., may all self-actualize through their performance of violence, but they are in no way warriors because of that violence. ![]() Warriors and soldiers self-actualize in war. ![]() First a distinction must be made between violence in war and during war and violence in general. In general this statement follows in the line of thinking in the other posts and comments that ‘warrior’ is an emotional psychological trait. To go back John T Kuehn’s original “hand grenade” The Cult of the Warrior - Helpful or.Silly, or.Dangerous? to start things off, he said: “but warrior really implies someone who is self-actualizing through violence”. In this post here, I will be arguing against some of my own comments made back in 2008. It is a continuation of the recent The Cult of the Warrior - Helpful or.Silly, or.Dangerous?” And indeed back in 2008 there was an exchange on Soldiers and Warrior in which I participated. The latest instalment in the debate came under the title of Military Professionalism and the Warrior Ethos: Both are Needed to Win. I have written much longer draft than I am posting here, but to put it all here, I might as well write an article.Īs a general statement: a big part of the problem arises because of the shifting and changed meaning of “warrior” taking place over time. The latest posts on the ongoing warrior-soldier debate has spurred me to once again try and make a point for a systematic approach to addressing this question.
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