Controversy at the Military Academy
A former West Point professor’s letter exposes corruption, cheating, and failing standards.
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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 …
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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.
The decision to remove branch insignia from Army Combat Uniforms (ACUs) in 2005 marked a significant milestone in the ongoing evolution of Army culture.
Citizen Writer, Barb Dwyer, lampoons the U.S. Navy’s emphasis on recruiting people with behavioral disorders.
If Alan George had given this guidance at a tribal or family ceremony, it would be absolute gold for the cadets. Conducting any ceremony based on “race” at West Point is wrong.
“The United States Military Academy honors Native American Heritage Month by reflecting on the their annual ceremony where cadets receive an eagle feather prior to graduation and commissioning.” USMA public release. How do we know the cadets in this picture are Indians? What makes them Indians? What’s different in their lives at West Point from …
Did Sgt. Maj. Ron Cook create the Eagle Feather Ceremony at West Point or was he recruited by the USMA DEI Office to perform it?
Why does West Point promote any identity other than American? Why officially cheer or even recognize a personal identity other than cadet, classmate, soldier and soon to be officer in the United States Army?
Obama and Biden put our troops in harm’s way by imposing stifling and dangerous Rules of Engagement (ROE). It was almost as if they worried that American forces would kill too many Taliban. they are now attempting to force thee same thing on the IDF
It’s always a good thing when an all-female tank crew of “infidels” ensures 50 Islamist terrorists who murder babies in their cribs, get sent to Allah to explain their misdeeds. But that’s not necessarily good personnel policy for the United States military.
The military’s recent forays into cultural “woke” marketing campaigns have polarized opinions among traditionally supportive segments of the population.
In a poignant ceremony, 398 West Point Cadets, whose ancestors served in the Confederate Army, were gifted to “symbolize the intersection of heritage and military service.