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If U.S. military academies are now not at all different from other liberal arts colleges, why should they continue to exist?

Today our nation honors our Gold Star mothers and families; and recognizes their service member who died while serving in a time of conflict. Every third Sunday of September since

Last May 12 was the 60th anniversary of Gen. Douglas MacArthur’s famous farewell address to the cadets at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point in which he outlined the ideals that guided his life a...

© Getty Images Eight West Point cadets have been expelled while 51 others must repeat a year of school over the academy’s biggest cheating scandal in more than 40 years. The military school is also ending its policy that allows students who violate its honor code to stay at the academy if they admit fault and accept punishment, a program known as the Willful Admission Process. Most of the cadets caught cheating on an online freshman calculus exam in May had enrolled in the program, which was found in a review not to have increased self-reporting of cheating. ADVERTISEMENT "The tenets...

1st female Army infantry officer says lower fitness standards for women put troops in danger Posted on In a new essay published Thursday, Capt. Kristen Griest, the first U.S. Army infantry officer, said lowering Army fitness standards could hurt the Army’s combat readiness and reduces the trust female soldiers can expect from their fellow soldiers. In her essay for West Point’s Modern War Institute, Griest, who also became the first of three women to earn the Army Ranger Tab, said creating a separate fitness standard for women would reduce the overall effectiveness of Army combat units....