Service academies politically correct?

VFW Magazine, Sept, 2003

Civilian professors are importing politically correct attitudes into the nation's military academies, according to John J. Miller in an article in National Review. While the percentage of civilian professors at West Point (22%) and the Air Force Academy (26%) remain reasonable, he wrote, the Naval Academy teaching staff is now 50% civilian. This has prompted fears of the "Annapolization" of the other schools.

Civilians at Annapolis also serve as deans and department heads. This allows them freedom to tailor courses and select textbooks. "There's a striking lack of ideological diversity here," one Naval Academy professor told Miller. "Most of the civilian professors actually opposed the war against Iraq." Miller cited a case of a Marine captain presenting a paper claiming the U.S. invaded Iwo Jima because of racial hatred.