Fix the Service Academies

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth’s task force on DEI/CRT declared “Mission Accomplished.”  Indeed, the Defense Department may have mowed the grass of Cultural Marxism at the Service Academies.  But, West Point – USMA, the Naval Academy – USNA, and the Air Force Academy – USAFA aren’t cured from the root of the Cultural Marxist rot.  Moreover, other aspects of the Academies need to be fixed for the long haul.  Make institutional transformation which can last through three generations of officers to the end of this century.

The first order question is what needs to be fixed?  Half of America and maybe half or more of active duty, former, and retired officers would argue nothing needs to be fixed at the Service Academies.

So, when 10 of 12 recently banned politically-correct identity group “affinity” clubs at West Point are reorganizing with new “more inclusive” charters how will they be different from the old affinity groups?  Will the officer sponsors be different?  Will their focus and activities be different?  How so?

Something stinketh on The Plain above the Hudson.  It’s Cultural Marxist black mold.  A lot of institutional drywall must be ripped out to find all the rot.

If and when it is discovered what needs to be done about it?

Ending Cultural Marxism at the Academies means changing the worldviews and self-identities of cadets and midshipmen thoroughly indoctrinated by k-12 Cultural Marxism.

In other words, the Service Academies, which served as the castle keep maintaining our American National values and moral virtues, must now teach and inculcate them in cadets and midshipmen.

This teaching must overcome reflexive Cultural Marxism at the same time that America’s demographics shift significantly.  More young people with unassimilated or hostile to Western Civilization immigrant parents will enter the Service Academies.

They’ll serve exceptionally well when they don’t identify with their ethnicity or enemies of Western Civilization.  They’ll be as American as apple pie when they graduate.

Also, recognize the other challenges the Service Academies must prepare for in this century.  Like, a peer enemy and potential global war of national survival like WW2 with even greater casualties, a long-war of much greater intensity than two decades of Global War On Terrorism (GWOT), October 7^th attacks across the US homeland, and clash of Civilizations civil wars across NATO countries.  And devastating nuclear, cyber, biological, and chemical warfare.

Leadership development must prepare officer leaders for adversity equal or greater to earlier “This We’ll Defend” struggles of national survival.

The Service Academies need to produce professional officers dedicated for career, selfless service in the military priesthood.  Retention in service stats show the Service Academies, as the liberal arts colleges they are, produce too many “5 and out” Grads (graduates) fast-tracked to pick up professional degrees or jump out of uniform to be entrepreneurs.

The unsuccessful exceptions who are brought in below the stated minimum standards for SAT/ACT and carried to graduation to play a sport or meet a DEI quota never should be admitted.

Much more data-based evidence is needed to determine what must be fixed at the Service Academies.

What needs to be retained as is to meet the current and future needs of the Services?

What needs to be restored and how – like the Honor Systems – to the highest standards achievable?

What needs to be reformed and how much – like the selection of faculty and administration, the core curriculum, degree programs, and NCAA athletics?

What needs to be improved to have more Grads serve successful, full careers in uniform?

How do the processes for periodic review and accountability need to improve?

Then, how can those institutional changes be put into institutional concrete resistant to politics?

It’s time to fix the Service Academies.  Make reforms which last for decades like General of the Armies MacArthur made at West Point after WW1.

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