#Miltwitter has been overcome by a heated debate over the negative influence of higher education on our nation’s officer corps, prompting indignation from Twitter’s wokevets not unlike the umbrage religious fundamentalists take to blasphemy.

This is their church, after all...

Many are ignoring the consequences of requiring officers to be credentialed by hyper-partisan academic institutions... relying on that tired internet refrain of “show me the evidence” - while they cling to on their own personal anecdotes, of course...

If anecdotes are still fair game, let’s take a look at how a seemingly evidence-based institution with a cadre of highly-credentialed leaders found themselves in the kind of quandary that veterans like @braxton_mccoy are warning about...

Weeks ago the CDC offered recommendations for vaccinations that prioritized racial minorities and low-income individuals over elderly populations, who are clearly the most at-risk of dying from COVID19. This recommendation was intended to mitigate “health inequities”...

After all, as Harald Schmidt of @PennMEHP observed, “Older populations are whiter. Society is structured in a way that enables them to live longer. Instead of giving additional health benefits to those who already had more of them, we can start to level the playing field a bit."

This view may seem foreign to most Americans, but for those of us who’ve spent time in our nation’s elite universities, it’s not at all surprising. Furthermore, it is equally unsurprising that this perspective would shape a CDC policy recommendation...

The American university is the finishing-school of our nation’s elite- gatekeepers to highly-coveted credentials that promise wealth, influence, and access.

The academic clerisy has an enormous impact on how public and private institutions operate.

The CDC is not exempt, and neither is our nation’s military.

By requiring military leaders to be credentialed by hyper-partisan institutions where ideology increasingly serves as a substitute for competence, expertise, and integrity...

We will inevitably see the insanity of the college campus bleed into every level of our national defense, and the consequences might just be catastrophic for the entire nation.

Our country has been at war in Afghanistan for two decades, with very little to show for all the blood and treasure wasted there.

How did we get here? Why is the most powerful nation on earth stymied in a global backwater populated by shepherds and farmers?

Those who knowingly perpetuated the Afghanistan disaster, even after privately acknowledging the futility of the project, were overwhelmingly credentialed by these prestigious institutions of higher learning. They are the “best and brightest.”

Meanwhile, ask any grunt with a high school diploma how things are going in Afghanistan and he will tell you that this nation is pissing in the wind- despite all the “democracy” and “gender equality” the Afghans are now enjoying.

We didn’t walk into this mess accidentally. Our leaders failed, and somehow even their precious university educations couldn’t avert a catastrophe.

The more that higher education determines success and defines our morality, the more vulnerable we are to tragedies like the GWOT.

And the latest insanities emanating from our most elite universities only increase the stakes.

If things continue, I imagine not only more endless wars, but a fighting force incapable of performing its most fundamental role.