Talk:Cadre

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I enlisted in the United States Army in January, 1956. I was sent for basic training to fort chaffee, Arkansas. I was assigned to Charlie company, 81st Medium Tank Batallion. The training staff were referred to as the training cadre. I had no idea what the word cadre implied. After a week of orientation and in-processing our actual infantry training began and ran for eight weeks. Then my buddy and I (he was in a different company) were sent to fort sam Houston texas to become dental assistants for the army. we both spent 29 months in Germany, he in Ulm and I in Bamberg. 184.47.13.213 (talk) 01:30, 16 May 2013 (UTC) fred covey, stockbridge, Georgia.

cut to talk much OR

...or at least no one has done any citation work and it looks like an essay.

Because cadre are well developed in terms of knowledge, experience, and agreement with the organization's goals, they should be able to adapt and rebuild the organization's structure and ideological direction even if the organization has been weakened, through, for example, other members being killed or imprisoned. For professional revolutionaries the cadre consider themselves subject to the discipline and self-discipline of a political vanguard party model.

Radical Left movements in particular have maintained their minimum program of survival and growth very effectively through the strength of a cadre system. Basic success within a movement in which cadre are the vanguard comes when one core of cadre has gradually recruited and trained another group of cadre to ensure the perpetuation of the movement. This, in theory, both strengthens the movement politically and promotes a culture of emulation over that of competition. The drawback of the cadre system is the inevitable ossification of the ideology as competition is eliminated, and the cadre becoming a separate caste, "a state within a state".

The term is also commonly used in other venues to indicate an "original" or "leadership" group, i.e. the "first set" of users of a system who then will act as the seed-group who gain initial experience with a system, in order to facilitate its later use by a more general population. An example would be the "Initial Cadre" of pilots trained in a new airplane by the manufacturer, in advance of the more formal training that later pilots of the type might undergo at the airline, i.e. "users", level. The term in this case assumes that the group is able to explore a system and determine by experimentation what later standards will be used to train the follow-on users, and further connotates that the original group will then train the instructors who will then interface with the final users group. The term has the additional connotation of "initial" or "original".

I considered a PROD, but decided that stubbing the article up seemed better.--- sinneed (talk) 14:22, 10 July 2009 (UTC)

Conflicting Pronunciations of Cadre

In the pronunciation favoured in UK and elsewhere, the French origin is usually clearly heard (CA-druh). Unfortunate consequences of the American adoption and propagation of the ‘CA-dray’ pronunciation (as if the original were spelled cadré) have been to obscure the French origin of this word and to give the impression that this is a Spanish adoption into English (rhyming with ‘padre’and ‘Sierra Madre’). Ombudswiki (talk) 07:50, 31 August 2009 (UTC)