Eisenhower's message was spot-on, butcame too late, says Andrew Bacevich, a retired careerofficerin theU.S.Army and professorofhistoryandinternationalrelations at BostonUniversity.
Edwards served as a U.S. Army combat infantry officer in Vietnam and graduated from the University of Southern California, according to a biography on his company's website.
He became involved in the officer training corps while studying environmental geography at university, enlisted in the Territorial Army in October 2006 and was said to have had ambitions to attend Sandhurst.