Critical thinking anchored in a solid general culture at the service of the profession of arms: Reflections on the education mission of military academies
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Abstract This essay is a reflection on the challenges faced by military academies, while developing in naval and officer-cadets, the ‘singular mindset’ required to prepare them for the professional responsibility awaiting them as future officers of the armed forces. As vocational schools, the main purpose of military academies is to train leaders of the armed forces with a comprehensive training and education programme, including, in most countries today, university studies. The choice of a specific academic discipline is of less importance, as there is no single or unique way to become an officer. The most important thing is that the education provided at military academies leads to the development of critical thinking rooted in a solid general culture at the service of the profession of arms.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.023 | 0.027 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.019 | 0.074 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.015 | 0.009 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.010 |
| Research integrity | 0.005 | 0.018 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.002 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".