The Fight to Restore America's Military Academies Starts Here
Inside Restoration of America Foundation's plan to restore the military to warfighting dominance—beginning with our officers.
The purpose of U.S. military service academies and war colleges is to produce and prepare officers capable of leading troops into battle and winning wars. Yet ideological social agendas have entangled these programs over the last few decades, endangering American military strength and dominance. Restoration of America Foundation (ROAF) developed a reform agenda for these programs consisting of four pillars: admissions, curriculum, faculty, and governance.
What they all aim to achieve is American military warfighting dominance capable of destroying our nation's enemies.
No longer will the officer corps be taught to be diplomats rather than warriors. ROAF's analysis points out that the current war college curricula "seem designed to produce military officers who think like politicians, State Department employees, and military contractors." While those positions have their place, military officers should not be filling those civilian functions.
Pillar One: Restoring Merit in Admissions
Restoration News previously exposed how the United States Naval Academy diluted its admissions requirements, allowing students to be admitted not on standards of merit but based on race and gender. ROAF proposes codifying current executive directives into statute with merit-based admissions standards. Laws should include abolishing all quotas linked to demographic composition and making physical fitness and cognitive aptitude the primary determinants for admission.
Additionally, candidates with prior enlisted service should be given preference since they bring first-hand experience and discipline to the institution they seek to lead. ROAF also advocates for service academy preparatory schools to include spots for more prior-service candidates.
The congressional nomination system must also be directed by law to nominate candidates in order of merit. U.S. senators and representatives are the main avenue for vetting applicants to the service academies. These nominations must align with merit-based qualifications that should be adopted into law.
Pillar Two: Curriculum Reform
Curriculum in the service academies and war colleges must reflect the preparation military officers need to be lethal warfighters, not politicians or ambassadors. ROAF's plan would refocus what is taught in these programs.
Three-quarters of all academic credits must have a direct, one-to-one correlation with winning wars. For example, courses that teach military strategy, tactical training, and leadership under stress should comprise a majority of the credits. The remaining 25 percent of classes should focus on high-level technical fields such as engineering and computer science.
A comprehensive course audit must be conducted by the superintendent of each academy, directed by the military chain of command, on every course offered. Non-relevant courses misaligned with the 75/25 framework must be eliminated. While social sciences may be relevant in civilian universities, military academies must have a different sole focus—warfighting.
ROAF also advocates for each academy to have "greater authority to integrated field training, live-fire exercises, and small-unit leadership scenarios into the academic calendar"—another example of strengthening war-fighter training.
The Rhodes Scholar program and any other similar fellowships must also be eliminated. Our previous reporting uncovered what's being taught at this University of Oxford program. American military leaders should not be dispatched to a foreign nation to be indoctrinated in ideologies harmful to American military strategy. The 2026 cohort of Rhodes attendees includes five service academy cadets who will focus on "housing policy, health outcomes, sustainability, and prison re-entry." America shouldn't be training its military leaders in social justice initiatives; they should be solely focused on the warfighting ethos.
It's not only the service academies in need of reform. Senior-level reform at the nation's six senior service war colleges is also urgently needed, particularly the curriculum at these post-graduate institutions.
ROAF quotes a war college graduate who says, "These institutions seem more interested in mimicking the prestige of the Ivy League than mastering the profession of arms." One war college "sent a dozen students to China for two weeks to study climate change, accompanied by minders from the Chinese Communist Party." It's a chilling reminder of how far military education has strayed from their objectives.
ROAF provides more guidance on reform in military leadership education on their website.
Pillar Three: The Faculty Problem
While there are excellent military professors with in-depth warfighting experience, there are others who view their positions as "stepping stones to prestigious civilian university appointments," as ROAF points out.
To solve this problem, ROAF offers solutions, including mandating a majority of the faculty at service academies and war colleges be active-duty or prior military members. Tenure, a mechanism to protect academic freedom at civilian institutions, should also be abolished. There is a big difference between civilian and military institutions. Faculty who violate the warfighting mission should be eliminated.
Another solution to the faculty problem is to explicitly direct that military colleges are military installation's first and educational institutions second. Any faculty promoting seditious ideologies or undermines unit cohesion, or constitutional order must be terminated.
Pillar Four: Governance and Accountability
In March 2026, Secretary of War Pete Hegseth directed the establishment of a task force under the Under Secretary of War for Personnel and Readiness to evaluate the senior service colleges. This task force should be empowered to also recommend changes in military college leadership.
Senior leaders of military educational institutions must be held accountable for what happens under their leadership. If ideological agendas have infiltrated these institutions, the leaders in charge must be relieved.
Civilian organizations should not be providing accreditation for military institutions. Restoration News previously exposed the dangerous ideologies promoted by civilian agencies providing oversight for the nation's military colleges. ROAF recommends that "Congress should consider establishing a separate military accreditation body, operating under the authority of the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, which evaluates military educational institutions against warfighting readiness standards rather than civilian academic norms."
Extensive reporting by Restoration News highlighted how military academy boards of visitors, comprised of congressional and military appointees, have failed to provide lawful oversight. Sitting members of congress often don't give these positions the attention they deserve. Instead, ROAF believes veterans and other civilian appointees committed to the warfighting mission should serve in these positions.
The future of American military supremacy depends on reclaiming our military education system from ideological capture and refocusing them exclusively on producing lethal warfighters. Read ROAF's four-pillar reform agenda and in-depth analysis to learn more about their full recommendations. America's enemies applaud these institutions ideological drift—that must end.
The time to restore the warfighting ethos in military education is now.
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