The military has a unique mission that requires a high degree of regimentation. Other functions in society require a lack of this regimentation. We would not have the modern society that we know if Thomas Edison, Albert Einstein and Bill Gates had been subject to military style regimentation from childhood onwards. The inventors of the weapons the army uses could only create their inventions in a setting much different from that in the fighting core of the army. Highly regimented nations have had to relax their regimentation when their economic sponsor cut off aid.
What scares me is that so many in this Coffee Room are so fascinated with military style regimentation, and want to extend it to the entire community. For a community to be self sufficient economically, regimentation needs to be relaxed.