To be fair - almost any organisation are hippies in comparison to the BB.
The early scouts were, as you say, the BB. As I understand it Baden-Powell didn’t actually want to set up a new organisation, just widen the appeal of existing ones like the BB.
As for ‘de-militarising’ the Scouts, the early editions of Scouting for Boys are fairly explicit that the end result of the training is a good, little citizen prepared (both in the sense of willingness and ability) to do his bit for King & Empire.
There’s also a whole bunch of fairly unpleasant class oppression going on if I remember correctly - things like noticing that someone was a wrong’un because he used the wrong fork or hadn’t shaved recently (those examples are hyperbole - I don’t have my copy to hand and I can’t seem to find early editions on the net.)
There is this though which makes the point pretty clearly:
Young Knights of the Empire by R B-P.
Published in 1917 admittedly so hardly surprising that it’s a full on propaganda piece in favour of doing one’s bit for Blighty.
Likewise it’s hardly surprising that the training manual written by the premier military hero of the day which was only popular because of his military fame drew pretty heavily on his military experiences and pro-establishment views.
