Pajamas Media » Strategic Collapse at the Army War College
A second post last week, “Fiasco at the Army War College: The Sequel,” records an exchange between Ricks and defense expert and author Mark Perry. Assessing the academic state of affairs at the War College, Perry informed Ricks:
It’s worse than you think. They have curtailed the curriculum so that their students are not exposed to radical Islam. Akin to denying students access to Marx during the Cold War.
The elites’ mad lust for “political correctitude” regarding Islam verges on the insane. I don’t find it at all difficult to imagine that War College students are denied knowledge of the less savory aspects of Islamism. The generals probably fear being assaulted by minions, both congressional and otherwise, of CAIR and Ibraiham Cooper, a perpetually aggrieved propaganda management group owned by Saudi Arabia.
But if we can’t know our enemy, how can we defeat him? The short answer is that the Islamist-loving (or fearing?) PC crowd doesn’t want us to defeat him. They want us to lose to militant Islam, the more grievous the loss, the better as far as they are concerned.
Submit to Stumbled Upon!
Fortunately the Corps maintains their own War College at MCB Quantico. IMHO a much better one.
I am in my fourth year teaching on the faculty of the US Army War College.
The idea that anyone has tried to keep students or teaching faculty from reading about or talking about Islam in general or militant Islam in particular at the Army War College is false. In a course entitled Theory of War and Strategy, my students and I take militant Islamists’ behaviors from the first World Trade Center bombing of 1993 up to their tactics in Afghanistan, Iraq, and elsewhere today, and evaluate those actions in light of their words as expressed in the media and on the Internet. We try to understand their expressed objectives in order to accurately prepare the students to lead our forces in the achievement of our own objectives.
I have not experienced a single attempt by anyone in authority to stifle my expression or constrain my freedom to research, read or teach about Islam, and I have taken advantage of that freedom each year to educate my students on aspects of Islam that most of them were unfamiliar with when they began the school year.
Col Harry Leach, USAF
Faculty Instructor
Department of National Security & Strategy
US Army War College
Col Leach, thanks for the comment. I hope you are correct and the article is wrong. Would you mind commenting about the referenced article itself?