What Is a War College?

There is, at last, a battle to claw back our war colleges and service academies from a few decades of an unchallenged march through these institutions by the academic left that has changed so many of our civilian institutions.

We’ve covered this topic often here, but today we’re going to look specifically at a story unfolding at our Naval War College that frames this well.

At its core, this pushback is based on different views of what our war colleges should be. Is there a need for war colleges to replicate the latest socio-political trends and fads found at civilian universities, or should war colleges focus their finite time and resources in areas that cannot be found in civilian universities that can help support the development of strategic thinking in our field grade and higher officers?

We can frame the argument, no pun intended here, on the right and left sides, by two articles that nicely mirror each other not just in title, but in substance.