The Future of PME
By 
Graham Parsons, former professor of philosophy at the US Military Academy at West Point:
It turned out to be easy to undermine West Point. All it took was an executive order from President Trump and a memo from Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth dictating what could and couldn’t be taught in the military and its educational institutions.
In a matter of days, the United States Military Academy at West Point abandoned its core principles. Once a school that strove to give cadets the broad-based, critical-minded, nonpartisan education they need for careers as Army officers, it was suddenly eliminating courses, modifying syllabuses and censoring arguments to comport with the ideological tastes of the Trump administration.
I will be resigning after this semester from my tenured position at West Point after 13 years on the faculty. I cannot tolerate these changes, which prevent me from doing my job responsibly. I am ashamed to be associated with the academy in its current form.
Professional Military Education (PME) is taking it on the chin in this administration, in no small part because of its association with the broader project of disciplining the entire US higher education sector. I suspect that things are going to get worse before they get better [ED]. The Trump administration now views the officer corps with great suspicion and thinks that PME (from undergraduate institutions like West Point to the War Colleges in Carlisle, Newport, and Maxwell) are sources of disloyalty to administration policy.