SocraticGadfly: Tom Ricks – Close West Point

April 19, 2009

Tom Ricks – Close West Point

Coming from the dean of American newspapers’ war correspondents, the call to close U.S. military academies isn’t a shot in the dark.

Ricks says it takes twice as much to educate an officer at one of the military academies rather than through ROTC, and that – ROTC grads make better officers and get better educations.

Read the full story for more of Ricks’ thinking.

I think he’s on to something. It’s far short of a draft, but relying on just ROTC officers might connect the military with the outside world more.

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