 Recent research into whether military personnel vote or behave politically than the general population has challenged some long-held conventional wisdom.The political behavior of officers has been extensively studied by Holsti, Van Riper & Unwalla, and Feaver & Kohn In the United States, particularly since the end of the Vietnam War, officers are strongly conservative in nature and tend to identify with the Republican Party in the United States.Enlisted personnel political behavior has only been studied more recently, notably by Dempsey,