"My Hair! He shot my hair! Son of a bitch!"
Posted on 10/10/2023 6:14:39 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Established in 1802 under President Thomas Jefferson, West Point is our nation’s oldest armed services academy and the first engineering school in the United States. Why engineering? Because it is a battlefield-relevant discipline that promotes the kind of critical thinking military leaders need to fight and win wars. Successful combat officers must be able to solve basic engineering problems, such as determining whether bridges will support trucks and armored vehicles, how best to cross rivers and other obstacles, how to plan and build fortifications, and where to place demolition charges, to name just a few required skills.
According to the West Point website, “graduates were largely responsible for the construction of the bulk of the nation’s earliest waterways, infrastructure, harbors, the Washington Monument, and surveys for the future transcontinental railroads. Perhaps the greatest engineering feat in world history was the Panama Canal completed in 1914 under the direction of Colonel George W. Goethals (Class of 1880), an Army engineer.”
All that began to change in the mid-1980s, when West Point transitioned to a liberal arts institution offering degrees in a wide variety of disciplines, many of which have little to no relevance to the battlefield or to leading troops. Most useless and counterproductive of these is a minor that now woke West Point offers: “Diversity and Inclusion.”
Courses within this minor include Social Inequality; Power and Difference; The Politics of Race, Gender and Sexuality; World Religions; Sex and Civilizations; Race, Ethnicity, Nation; and Society & Culture in American History. These are fitting for a military academy that now promotes anti-white racism, communist-style self-criticism sessions for white cadets, transgenderism, discriminatory entry requirements, and race-over-merit promotions.
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Do we really need military academies anymore? I don’t think so. Commanders are being relieved of their commands as fast as the academies can pump them out.
I’ve had no idea it’s been getting this bad
We need them so women can crash ships at sea, and blacks can eliminate Special Forces in the Army.
All the people here pining for WWIII think our military is at a 1980’s level.
They have no clue.
Forget about military academies. A more basic issue is that the U.S. should not even have a standing army of any consequential size.
America is toast, stick a fork in it... :(
One of the Founders argued against professional military academics, as it would lead to elitism (I think it was Benjamin Franklin, but I’m not sure). Better to train all future officers at colleges. We know that program today as ROTC.
That idea has some merit. Or should I say, had some merit. Because we are now stuck between a rock and a hard place. Do we want our future generals to come from woke West Point or from super-woke Harvard?
The Army War College and Navy equivalents have also gone to hell.
BS degrees is the only way to get low IQ women and minorities to pass.
This is known and deliberate.
If USA went against Russia or any modern army, we would get our asses kicked.
I can imagine the tiktok videos of homos filming themselves crying in the battlefield and how they want to go home.
I talked to a friend feom the military and he said he went in an Army post recently and they were flying the queer flag
When I was in the army in the mid 60's, believe me, there was one helluva big difference between an ROTC and a West Point man..
During tough times, discipline and trust can go a long way...
Most here really don’t get it. Half our country was freaking out over the Iraq of Afghanistan death toll.
Russians can suffer and have 120 million people.
China has 1.3 billion people.
Iran has 90 million people.
Are we going to draft Gen Z? Have you met them?
Or are we just going to pop off a thousand nukes?
I’m convinced that the internet has ruined people’s ability to think.
People respond without thinking. Impulse control is down across the board.
Imagine describing the geopolitical ramifications of WWIII in 140 characters or fewer.
She/he/it broke a nail switching mags, and that nasty ol’ helmet - and just LOOK what it’s done to her/his/its hair - it’s a CRIME!!
"My Hair! He shot my hair! Son of a bitch!"
“World Religions”
Future officers should know the basics of Islam and its history.
I don’t think military academies can be replaced by instruction at civilian universities.
Much of what officers need to know is military specific and officers need to get to know each other and to think in similar patterns.
“Communism will Win”
America is toast, stick a fork in it... :(
We disagree, and what looks like we been forked hasn’t happened yet. It gets worse from here, but in the end we will find minority woke needs, and will get the forking it deserves.
Right, the same Russian army that's struggling in Ukraine for 594th days against an enemy, with no air force, is going to "kick our asses". No
The value of focusing on engineering is that it weeds out glib idiots.
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