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Babylon Comes to Sparta: Have our service academies gotten too modern?
Earlier this year, the history faculty on a Maryland campus met to hear a young colleague discuss a paper he was writing. The author hoped to receive feedback and eventually publish his work in a scholarly journal. His topic was the invasion of Iwo Jima in 1945. The junior professor argued that the battle, in which nearly 7,000 Marines lost their lives, was a strategic mistake. Moreover, he said, it was predicated on racial hatred: American forces struck at the island not because it was home to an important air base, but because they wanted to kill a bunch of Nips.
This was nonsense. Iwo Jima was a necessary target whose capture served U.S. interests if only ...
- WEST POINT, NAVAL ACADEMY CADETS VISIT NAZI AUSCHWITZ CONCENTRATION CAMP
- News wire article from: US Fed News Service, Including US State News July 16, 2009 700+ words
...U.S. Embassy issued following press release: Cadets from the United States Military Academy at West Point, the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis, and the United States Air Force Academy at Colorado Springs visited the Nazi concentration...
- Naval Academy Cruises to Popular Heights; `Top Gun,' `Red October' and...
- Newspaper article from: The Washington Post Tom Vesey January 19, 1987 700+ words
...than 10 percent at the Naval Academy here, and at West Point in New York and the Air...education organizations. The Naval Academy, West Point and the Air Force Academy...seniors have applied to the Naval Academy, twice as many as last...
- VMI ruling heartens liberties group; Naval Academy seen as next target.(NATION)
- Newspaper article from: The Washington Times May 1, 2003 700+ words
...dispatched a cautionary letter to Naval Academy officials in Annapolis. The...on such institutions as the Naval Academy, which appears to be the only...Defense Department runs the Naval Academy and West Point, while schools such as VMI...
- Journey to Annapolis: High school senior gets nomination to attend U.S. Naval...
- Newspaper article from: Valley Morning Star (Harlingen, TX) February 2, 2006 700+ words
...attend the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis, Md., Miller...nomination to enroll at the Naval Academy, the Military Academy at West Point, or the Air Force Academy...will begin classes at the Naval Academy in fall 2006. He plans...
- USA: women cadets at West Point sexually assaulted.(Reports from: Americas...
- Magazine article from: WIN News June 22, 2003 700+ words
...investigate not only the Academy but also West Point and the Naval Academy at Annapolis, MD., asessing responses...to explore responses to the problem at West Point and the Naval Academy ... West Point is the oldest and most tradition-bound...
- West Point training foreigners as leaders
- Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times Mike Hendricks April 23, 1989 700+ words
...Academy has 37 and the Naval Academy 32. Fidel Ramos graduated from West Point with honors in 1950...do not send cadets to West Point. Members of North Atlantic...midshipman is attending the Naval Academy. At West Point all cadets eat the same...
- WEST POINT RANKED TOP PUBLIC LIBERAL ARTS COLLEGE
- News wire article from: US Fed News Service, Including US State News August 27, 2009 700+ words
...United States Military at West Point issued the following news release...Rankings" today and ranked West Point the "Top Public Liberal Arts College." The U.S. Naval Academy was ranked #2. West Point was also named the fourth...
- NAVY OFFICER RECALLS THE TIME MIDDIES INVADED WEST POINT THE EXCHANGE PROGRAM...
- Newspaper article from: The Virginian Pilot Doucette, John-Henry December 1, 1996 700+ words
...Beat Navy,'' the West Point Parents Club of Hampton...friendly fire since he was a Naval Academy junior in 1981, attending West Point through an inter-academy...Hagerott had come to tell the West Point parents - between the pot...
