Bringing Academies & War Colleges Back To Centerline
By Commander Salamader
August 13, 2025
People, processes, place, and mindsets
For those who’ve watched for a long time, especially over the last decade, our service academies and war colleges have drifted further toward academic leftist orthodoxy and away from their core competence as serious military organizations. The last eight months have been a whirlwind of change, as efforts are finally underway to refocus these institutions on their core competency.
The two most high-profile Navy centers of higher education (with the Naval Postgraduate School a close 3rd, sorry fellas) are the U.S. Naval Academy (USNA) in Annapolis, MD and the Naval War College (NWC) in Newport, RI.
We have covered the need for a depolarization and re-militarization at both institutions here for years, so the latest developments have been welcome with wide, if not patient, smiles.
SECDEF Hegseth and his team at the Pentagon have been leaning forward and more aggressive in this area than I thought I would ever see.
https://armedforces.press/bringing-academies-war-colleges-back-to-centerline/
