One professor at Annapolis thinks so
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Elitist mofo New Dick Times.
This writer is using the mild favoritism shown Academy athletes over their Academy brethren (and sisteren) to bash the entire idea of the military. Also, he’s NOT comparing the low level of athletic favoritism in the Academies to that in major universities, where it is ridiculously pervasive. That would have ended his tirade in a hurry.
The point is that the military requires an officer corps, one that can think, but one that can manage violent conflict well also.
Managing violent conflict is simply not taught outside of Service Academies (and some senior NCO schools), and this writer knows that, but pretends that it doesn’t matter, any kind of manager could lead troops in combat or ships in surface, air or undersea warfare. Being good at combat as a troop on the decks/battlefields helps, but it is only a small part of what it take to be an officer.
Don’t fall for the blandishments of this peacenik hack.
to bash the entire idea of the military
I didn’t get that from the article. I got a guy who was upset at what he sees is a declining academic standard in the academies being ignored by a cycling administration that is not interested in attempting reform.
I’d have to say my read of the article was closer to MadRocketScientist’s.
Having worked for and alongside officers who were products of ROTC, Annapolis, and OCS (or its predecessors), really there wasn’t much to choose; except the more experience they had under their belt before they were given a shiny gold bar, the less of an asshole they tended to be, and the more realistic their worldview.
Having served under officers from the Academy, as well as ROTC grads and prior-enlisted, I usually would take the latter 2 over the former, and this was 15 years ago. It usually took until they had been J.G.s for a while before you finally cleaned that Academy smug off of them.
One nice thing about dealing only with officers who had to pass the Navy Nuclear Power training course was that they had almost a year to get the stupid knocked out of them before they got to the fleet.
That didn’t suffice for *all* of them by any means but it helped.
And yes, prior enlisted officers tended to have more of that “real-world” experience I mentioned so were generally better than ROTC or Academy types… but I had a couple stellar examples of both of the latter (and a couple terrible ones too).
There are always those exceptional ones.