End the military academies?

Well, it costs four times as much for an academy to produce an officer as it does ROTC, and only 20 percent of our officers come from a service academy.

A professor at Annapolis notes all this in arguing, not to close the USNA, et al, but to reform them and toughen them up.

Frankly, I wonder if the answer isn't just having the academies serve as 1-year finishing schools, at most, for ROTC grads, combined with some war-college ty pe advanceed training.