LDN - you do say a career in 'the military' leads to being trained in torture, mental health problems etc etc. You do not bother to differentiate between the different Services, so yes, you are lumping them all in together by definition. Differentiation is something you will have to learn about if you want to teach, so best get started.
If you want to argue that 'the military' do certain things, then you need to be very sure of your ground and very specific about what you are alleging our military do and do not do. You have no concrete evidence that having a military past impacts on teaching ability, any more than the fact I used to work for HMRC impacts on mine. Again you generalise about a 'culture of mental health problems' - some of those who have been in combat may manifest this, but others won't, and those who haven't been in a a war zone won't, anymore than Joe Public might have mental health problems. I had severe delayed PND years before I went into teaching. That hasn't made a difference to my teaching ability - should I have had a psychological assessment as well because I had a mental health problem?
'A lot of the information i sighted is sourced from reputable articles, some quotes have been taken from ex service people' Nope, not many (and please, it's cited; did you say you are doing a dissertation?) - and as I have pointed out Grossman is irrelevant because US Forces training is very different to our own.
'and the controversy surrounding the uses of torture has brought to light that it is a very real thing and commanding officers participate or were aware, the fact that there was legal action taken against the British military by people who had been tortured should substantiate that, it is common knowledge that it goes on.' The man in Iraq was an isolated incident; those who did it have been punished as they should have been, but your assertion that COs participate or are aware is well wide of the mark. Why would anybody jeopardise their honour, reputation, career, pension and face jail as a CO for that? People try to bring legal action against the Military frequently, that doesn't always mean that those allegations are true, just that perhaps they think HMG will pay out. It is not common that torture goes on by the UK Military (Geneva convention and all that legally binding treaty stuff) whatever you may like to think, so thus it cannot be common knowledge. Abu Grahib was a US run facility, not a Brit one if that is what you were thinking of.
'I didn't say that all military personnel are exposed to combat, but all go through training to make them part of the military system, you cannot deviate from the core set of values and still be part of the military so it means extreme uniformity.' And my point was that they do not go through the same type of training as there is no point in training a Cavalry Officer in the same way as a nuclear submariner. As to extreme uniformity, nope, Army are different to Navy (who can be split into skimmers and submariners) who are different to the RAF. There is an amazing mix of sub cultures going on in HM Forces, so what may appear uniform to an uninformed observer like yourself, isn't the case at all.
'I feel this would hinder a persons ability to teach when teaching is not about uniformity and I question whether the person could adapt.' See above. What you don't realise, because you don't know and like to generalise, is that Forces personnel have to adapt every 18 months to 2 years to a completely new job, requiring new skills in anew environment, often away from home, and with new people to adapt to and work for, with or supervise. Thus, one might in the space of 12 years have 7 different postings/jobs with different people in different places all requiring a different skill set and having to learn new skills as well and having to hot the ground running form Day 1. That's adapting imo.
One thing you will need to grasp if you want to teach is avoiding bias. On balance, you haven't done that very well here. You have bought into the majority of the stereotypes about 'the military', without bothering to investigate or understand the reality of and the legalities binding HM Forces. Those of us 'right wing military affiliated people' (some of whom will undoubtedly vote Labour, you make a sweeping and unfounded generalisation yet again, voting is anonymous so how would you even know what the political leaning is of a random stranger on the internet? Remember: PQE) know that the military isn't perfect, but we can see past the ends of our noses and recognise the skills that being in the Forces gives to people.
You say you are West African - the only place I can see there that the UK Military are involved in is Sierra Leone and that needs all the help it can get. I don't see where else in that region the Govt or the Military are eroding rights.
Wikileaks mmmmm. A very US take on events, and having seen Assange's rants on the news during his extradition hearings, I think he is more than a little unhinged. I'd like to know what is driving his particular agenda.
Love your comment about 'absolutist points of view'...pot, kettle?