How America's Military Academies Lost Their Way | Restore the Military Podcast (Ep. 4)

Jul 07, 2026
Will Thibeau
Restore the Military Podcast

West Point was built to produce warriors. So was Annapolis. So was the Air Force Academy. At some point, the mission changed—and nobody voted for it.

The American military's officer programs are built to train the next generation of lethal warfighters. But years of leftist corrosion have turned them into woke universities pushing DEI, Critical Race Theory, and worse. Join Restoration of America Founder Doug Truax and Senior Visiting Fellow Will Thibeau on the Restore the Military Podcast:

Will Thibeau is a veteran of the U.S. Army’s 75th Ranger Regiment and serves as Director of the American Military Project at the Claremont Institute’s Center for the American Way of Life. He comments regularly on defense policy and has twice testified in front of the House of Representatives.

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