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Listen up, cadets — your dusty old institution is under siege… from me, the world’s most offended armchair critic. As someone who’s never fired a rifle, never been marched at 5 a.m., and whose greatest battle was choosing between oat milk or almond at Starbucks, I hereby launch my campaign to transform West Point into Soy Boy University — the safe space you never knew you wanted.
Here’s the problem with pendulums: they never stop neatly in the middle. They swing. And when one extreme breaks down, the opposite extreme often rushes in like it’s auditioning for the sequel.
I entered the Army in July of 1993, before President Clinton’s “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” experiment. Back then, the military was still primarily about blowing holes in things, breaking enemy armies, and defending the Republic. Then slowly, like a frog in a pot, the Pentagon began feeding the social science laboratory every “good idea” — except the good ideas about how to win wars.
The Pentagon isn’t focused on warfighting anymore. It’s obsessed with DEI quotas and social-engineering experiments. “Representation” is now more important than readiness.
A focus on DEI rather than merit has infiltrated the military through a back door.
While some still believe the military exists for national defense, history tells a different story—it’s actually America’s premier social science laboratory.
In a warzone filled with IEDs, insurgents, and actual life-or-death decisions, the U.S. Department of Defense somehow decided that the real priority in Iraq wasn’t winning battles—it was censoring the anatomically correct genitalia of an ancient Mesopotamian bull
Democrats may have lost the military. In his first term, the four stars kept Trump from being the actual commander-in-chief blocking him with Milley, Mattis and Marx leading the way.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth told Breitbart News in an exclusive interview on Thursday that he is paying “very close attention” to who is executing the lawful orders from President Donald Trump and that woke generals “will have a different job in due time.”
DEI is currently being thrown overboard in corporate boardrooms, federal agencies, and academia. For the military I would submit it’s a feel good program that forces conformity and seriously degrades unit cohesiveness and war fighting skills.
A former West Point professor’s letter exposes corruption, cheating, and failing standards.
Recently, the Superintendent and Dean at West Point wrote “the Army and the Academy are at an inflection point1.” Their “West Point 2050” addressed academics “to intellectually prepare graduates to lead across the full spectrum of conflict.” It would be interesting to read their deliberations on the inflection point and its implications. Absent that, here …
The Drudge Report, the deep-state’s electronic bulletin board, promoted an NYT column it ran under General Stanley McChrystal’s name: “Why Kamala Harris Has Won Me Over.”
On Sept. 12, Real Clear Defense published my commentary, “West Point Needs a Reset,” detailing why I and many fellow graduates believe the United States Military Academy has lost its way and needs to get back to the basics of educating future Army officers to fight and win our nation’s wars. Almost immediately, the piece …
Not only has the taxpayer cost of a West Point education risen, but the Academy’s moral and professional compass seems to have shifted.
The U.S. military began to show signs of shifting priorities in the early 1990s, with a focus on risk aversion that would later become a key feature of a more “woke” military.
Our woke military through its DEI efforts is going out of its way to alienate the very demographic that has done most of the bleeding and dying in our nation’s wars.
Today we wonder why patriotism is at a low for younger people. We wonder why we can’t meet recruiting or retention goals. Why our senior leaders apparently don’t understand what unit cohesiveness is all about.
Like our Base Renaming Commission, the Taliban also practice iconoclasm, the smashing of images or destruction of traditional ideas for political ends.
Service academies have few safeguards to mitigate the implementation and prioritization of programs, however disruptive and destructive.