A cult is a group or movement exhibiting a great or excessive devotion or dedication to some person, idea, or thing and employing unethically manipulative techniques of persuasion and control (e.g., isolation from former friends and family, debilitation, use of special methods to heighten suggestibility and subservience, powerful group pressures, information management, suspension of individuality or critical judgment, promotion of total dependency on the group and fear of leaving it, etc.) designed to advance the goals of the group’s leaders to the actual or possible detriment of members, their families, or the community.”
I’m going to go through the characteristics of a cult and break down how they apply to military. You’ll see by the end of this post that the similarities are too blatant to be explained by mere coincidence. The more you understand the design of a cult the more obvious it becomes that the military system was painstakingly designed around the cult model.