What is your most radical or unpopular opinion concerning the military?

The Post 911 GI Bill is WAY too generous.

I like the transferability to children. I'm not a huge fan of transferability to spouses (just because I've seen too many 'contract marriages' where a young guy signs over his GI Bill for BAH), but that's not the hill I'm going to die on.
What aggravates me is that it is supposed to be an assistance program-- not a sustenance program for 4 years after completing the service. The old Montgomery GI Bill (which you had to elect and pay for, by the way) was a tuition assistance program. It covered state school tuition (or up to that amount at a more expensive school), and that was IT. No housing stipend, no meal plan stipend, none of the extras that Post 911 has. It was designed to HELP a servicemember through college, and it was affordable (largely because not a lot of people who earned it used it or used it fully-- a lot used it for vocational training which costs a LOT less than a worthless 4 year degree.) What we have now is an unaffordable entitlement program.
Do I like getting free stuff for my service-- sure. I DON'T like adding to the crippling federal debt or otherwise crippling the defense budget with money better spent elsewhere.

War is obsolete in resolving conflicts. It does not prove who is Right or Wrong; Good or Bad. - from a Veteran For Peace and Pax Christi member.

It appears from Colnel up they are tied into one scam or another and stealing from the troops they are supposedly in charge of

The most unpopular opinion concerning the Marine Corps has nothing to do with the Marine Corps itself.
When I served I actually serve with fellow Marines that actually Carried Ku-Klux Klan membership cards. I serve with Caucasian Marines that had never came into contact with a real black person outside of TV. And some of these situations were not fun, When any in we are respected each other and we had each other's back. In a couple even burned up their membership cards because they realized over time that what they were told about African Americans whether true. Is just a part of life but I would never tell anyone in the civilian world that I did not like the Marine Corps or that I am glad I am out of the military. The military isn't designed for you to have fun or to be treated like a king or Queen we all enlisted to do a job and sometimes that job is awfully dirty and hard. I practically lived in the Middle East before it was popular to be in the Middle East the technology wasn't there to film us in real time and broadcast it over Satellite TV. And I am in no hurry to recount some of the things that went on I just thank God I made it back.

shooting people who are beyond FUBAR

Combat MOS = males
Nuke the PT belt
Increase pay, especially haz duty

Not sure how radical this is: Military leaders should stop seeking intellectualism. Leadership isn't about philosophy. There is no need to be an anthropologist in order to lead. "Human terrain" and civil considerations are important, but not the focus of military science. The civilian corporate world, with its fascination with pseudo-scientific management fads, has _nothing_ to offer the professional military with regard to how-to-think. Also, contrarianism does not equal wisdom. Be wary of fads, slogans, or anything that uses the term "methodology" (which should mean a study of method, but is instead used for the purpose of making the word "method" look fancy).

I was only an E-5, and a long time ago. However, later, I worked at a defense contractor in a role that exposed me to lots of discussion of doctrine, particularly with regard to the whole counterinsurgency and military operations other the war stuff. There seemed to be lots of fascination with anything from the world of academia or business. It seemed like the Army invented the entire concept of hipsterism before hipster was even a thing. Just a few weeks ago there was National Geographic program, Chain of Command, that kept showing segments in each episode that presented what seemed to be highly scripted interactions between officers and a civilian academic. I am very skeptical of that sort of thing.

I see the need to understand what's going on in societies where our troops are deployed or might be deployed. I see a need to detect problems before they require attention. I see a need to develop and maintain relationships with influential or observant people on the ground in a British empire kind of way, but these are things that I think belong more in the realm of the civilian intelligence community and the Dept of State. Also, I think such things require much more specific expertise than just a broad coverage of social studies.

In the military, there is certainly a need for intellect, but not intellectualism. In other words, if you had to figure out how the United States could physically destroy the North Korean threat to its neighbors and the US before the North Korean regime could cause large-scale harm, that would require mental heavy-lifting. How do you achieve surprise? What is the extent of DPRK capabilities? What to hit in what order and where? What countermeasures does the enemy employ and how can we overcome those? Another fairly recent example, from the post-9/11 world, would be the development of tactics, techniques, and procedures for defeating the IED threat or more generally improving the ability of US ground forces to operate in an environment in which the enemy makes frequent use of guerrilla tactics. (The Left of Boom stuff.) Those are the kinds of things that military thinkers need to be good at. That's where the brains need to be applied (and have been). But while technologies may change the battlefield, and the identities of the enemies change over time, the military art and science is just an extrapolation of what's already been learned. There is no need to throw out the book and replace it with something from the faculty lounge and the board room.

If the ARMY wanted you to have an opinion they would have issued you one.

That the military has become a defunct/corrupt welfare system.

I remember when the Army experimented with "stress cards" in basic training. Really? If you can't handle being yelled and cursed at, how in the heck are you going to handle a combat situation? GEEZ!