-Well, I was in the US Army, and most of the officers were pretty stupid. There were quite a few with Liberal Arts, political science, and business degrees and very few with engineering degrees or anything technical. In fact I remember reading about one of our Generals had a PHD in some psychology thing, a master's degree in military history, and a degree in "business" and I'm thinking "This dude sounds not very bright".
The average IQ composites for political science graduates in the US is 120, which might indicate that in average a political sciences graduate might range from 110 to 130 in IQ, which is not a dumb person. Psychology is lower with 113, which might mean that the average psychology graduate has an IQ ranging from 100 to 120 maybe. The second best part goes for philosophy students, 129 average composite that stands in superiority to all technical and engineering degrees and is only surpassed by mathematics, physics and astronomy. Technical doesn't mean smarter (although it might mean far more useful) I would suggest judging by deeds and not by papers, no offence intended.
With the second paragraph I completely agree
Edited bc I forgot to add the source
http://www.randalolson.com/2014/06/2...-gender-ratio/
Also the US spends 1'92 trillion USD in military spending then recruits the video's candidates for it's army, looks like some sort of welfare but disguised as defense. Solution for the underprepared military officials might be a military university degree, necessary for everyone inside the ranks to get into higher positions (Which is actually how it works in my country).