The Washington Post has an op-ed up by Thomas Ricks, saying that we should close service academies like West Point:

On top of the economic advantage, I’ve been told by some commanders that they prefer officers who come out of ROTC programs, because they tend to be better educated and less cynical about the military.

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We should also consider closing the services’ war colleges, where colonels supposedly learn strategic thinking. These institutions strike me as second-rate. If we want to open the minds of rising officers and prepare them for top command, we should send them to civilian schools where their assumptions will be challenged, and where they will interact with diplomats and executives, not to a service institution where they can reinforce their biases while getting in afternoon golf games.

In other words, send them to liberal schools where they’ll learn to loathe the career they’ve chosen. Nice call, huh?

Besides that, the obvious problem is, as Jules Crittenden points out, that a lot of liberal colleges aren’t allowing the ROTC in. A very, very bad idea.

Outside The Beltway has some thoughts on this, too.