U.S. Shifting to Headlong Pursuit of Military Academic Mediocrity

Military-education reforms seem designed to ensure fighting men and women can’t think, ... and thinking men and women can’t fight

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Excerpt to first link above: "The latest spasm of Pentagon anti-intellectualism has come in the shape of efforts to remold the military educational system. To its shame, and apparently just because Laura Loomer said it should, the Army has meekly fired Jen Easterly from her position on the faculty at West Point, even though she is a graduate, a Rhodes Scholar, a three-tour Afghan War veteran, and a bona fide cybersecurity expert.

In this case, at least, Secretary of the Army Dan Driscoll seems to have given up on the honor part of West Point’s motto, “Duty, honor, country.”

Secretary of the Navy John Phelan—whose nautical and military experience is admittedly nil—has directed his acting assistant secretary to purge 60 civilian professors from the U.S. Naval Academy, Fox News reported, and to replace them with military faculty to “promote fitness standards, maritime skills and marksmanship as essential component of the warrior ethos.” (Note: That should be components—plural—but lethal guys don’t need no grammar.)

The humanities, he ordered, should be particularly targeted. The U.S. Air Force Academy is headed in the same direction.

Perhaps this order results from Phelan having read too much C. S. Forester and Patrick O’Brian and believing that the key to naval leadership is ordering your gallant tars to back topsails, giving the enemy frigate two broadsides at point-blank range, and boarding it in the smoke with cutlass in hand. In that case, he may wish to read up on advances in naval technology and tactics since 1800."