Woke ideology infiltrates the Naval Academy

In today’s Martin Center article, J. A. Cauthen, a graduate and former faculty member at the Naval Academy, writes about the way “wokeness” has penetrated into that once-great school.

Cauthen writes, “In early 2021, the Naval Academy published a Diversity and Inclusion Strategic Plan, a complementary compendium to its 2030 Strategic Plan. This vision, if achieved, will erode the competency of future officers and imperil our national security. Endorsed and signed by all senior Naval Academy leadership, from the superintendent to the academic dean and provost, the plan will set the tone and tenor of forthcoming DEI initiatives and programs, with enforcement centralized through the Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (ODEI). Drafted and promulgated by ODEI, some of the published objectives and actions read like bygone Soviet and Maoist slogans. To describe these as troubling is charitable; pernicious and punitive are more apt descriptors.”

Evidently, the Washington swamp that needs to be drained extends up to Annapolis.