Political portions of the Military Times survey

The Military Times survey also included a series of questions about political views and affiliations. The aspect of the survey which got some attention was that 46% of the respondents identified themselves as Republicans. This is down from two years ago (60%) and also down from last year (56%). Phillip Carter has a good post at Intel Dump about these results. Carter explains a little bit about the nature of the survey and why the results are significant.

I highly recommend reading his entire post.

At this time I will highlight one of his opinions, namely that "the majority of conservatives in the military are issue conservatives, not party conservatives." (emphasis in original). I tend to think he is correct, and if that view is correct, it shows that "What's changed is their support for the Republican Party, and this administration in particular, over the past few years. The survey clearly indicates that much of this shift owes to discontent with the management of the war and specific policies adopted by the administration." And that could in part explain the other survey results discussed in the previous post.