Back when I was doing our Disloyal Military pamphlets on military wokeness, one of the points I made about the infection in the academies was that it began when the Clinton administration had pushed in civilian leftist professors.
Now Secretary of Defense Hegseth, whom we are incredibly lucky to have (because he’s making real changes, not just tweeting and going on podcasts) has been driving them out and the media is outraged.
“What do Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth have against soldiers listening to civilians?” Politico asks.
What are they supposed to be listening to? The core subject of the profile is a professor who interrogates gender norms
Years later, at CUNY graduate school, Parsons began untangling his childhood urges, thanks to mentorship from two prominent feminist philosophers: Virginia Held and Linda Martín Alcoff.
In one 2023 paper, Parson argues that American society has established male gender norms that shape and inspire military service, in part by normalizing the idea that the male soldier is “expendable.”
…but there’s also this really revealing quote.
Retired General Martin France, himself an Air Force Academy graduate and former chair of the academy’s department of astronautics and engineering, views this military campus crackdown, which includes complementary work by other federal bodies, as a myopic effort to eliminate courses that encourage independence, an instinct echoed by many of the more than 20 current and former civilian and military faculty I spoke with, many of whom were granted anonymity to freely discuss the conditions of the crackdown.
“Our officers should be sentient beings who understand just war theory, the laws around conflict, the orders that they are morally obligated to disobey,” France said, arguing that the Trump administration, by contrast, wants to breed compliance rather than teach nuance. This, in turn, France alleged, forms an officer class of “flesh-and-bone drones.”
It’s about getting officers who obey the Left not the elected commander-in-chief of the armed forces.