Ideological purges are a feature of despotic and intellectually inbred regimes. Why fix or fight it? The military academies are a vestigial legacy of a bygone era. The nearly 4x cost over ROTC grads and only 6% increased retention rate.

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Maybe turn the mil academies into a finishing school prior to follow on commissioned PME courses. Pilot training is already turning towards a hybrid civilian/military model to modernize and streamline cost. What made sense in 1954 just doesn’t project clearly into the future 70 years later.