Description
Given the continued and increasing growth in military engagement with academia within the UK, we have seen an increase in the number of students who are undergoing under- and post-graduate education while they are either on secondment or still serving in post. The Army's Higher Education Pathway (AHEP) is a prime example of this. While this is commendable it is causing some friction as these particular students need to adapt to the demands of academic essay writing while still maintaining very particular forms of communication within their professional lives.
This paper proposes a way of easing this transition that should make it easier for military students to adapt to academic essay writing and make it easier for academics to engage with the constraints present in balancing the needs of their 'normal' students with the increasing number of military students they may encounter. This can be achieved through adapting the NATO order system currently employed by the military into a way to understand and communicate ideas within politics and International relations.
