From a reader:

Dear Mr. Robinson, I’m an avid reader of The Corner, and I enjoyed very much your post today, “A
Call, and An Answer”, about the two newly-commissioned Marines who just
graduated from Dartmouth. I myself am headed into my second year as an
undergraduate at the University of Oxford, where I am studying Classics &
English. I’m an American citizen – making my undergraduate
position at Oxford relatively unusual – and even more unusually, once I’m done I
plan to apply for a commission in the US Army, hopefully in the Airborne
Infantry. While I have the full support of my family and closest friends in
this, you can imagine the questions I often am asked from people who don’t know
me that well. I was hugely pleased, therefore, to come across this quotation
this year from Thucydides, the father of all military history: “The society that
separates its scholars from its warriors will have its thinking done by cowards
and its fighting by fools.”