Compass Points - Beware MCU
MCU they are coming for you.
Compass Points - Beware MCU
MCU they are coming for you.
February 11, 2025
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Bad boys, bad boys whatcha gonna do?
Whatcha gonna do when they come for you?
-- Bad Boys, Inner Circle
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The Commander-in-Chief has fired the boards of visitors for all the US military academies.
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President Donald Trump said Monday he fired the boards of visitors at four U.S. service academies, claiming they had been “infiltrated by woke leftist ideologies.”
Trump ordered the immediate dismissal of board members at the Military Academy in West Point, New York; the Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland; the Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, Colorado; and the Coast Guard Academy in New London, Connecticut.
“We will have the strongest Military in History, and that begins by appointing new individuals to these Boards,” Trump wrote on his social network platform, Truth Social. “We must make the Military Academies GREAT AGAIN!”
-- Military Times
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The senior leaders at the Marine Corps University in Quantico, Virginia must be looking over their shoulders, "Whatcha gonna do when they come for you?"
The Marine Corps University was founded on August 1, 1989 by the Commandant of the Marine Corps, General Al Gray. He selected as the first MCU President, LtGen Paul K. Van Riper, a decorated combat leader and advocate of Gray's recently published seminal warfighting publication, FMFM-1 Warfighting.
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This book describes my philosophy on warfighting. It is the Marine Corps’ doctrine and, as such, provides the authoritative basis for how we fight and how we prepare to fight.
. . . I expect every officer to read and reread this book, understand it, and take its message to heart. The thoughts contained here represent not just guidance for actions in combat, but a way of thinking in general. This manual thus describes a philosophy for action which, in war and in peace, in the field and in the rear, dictates our approach to duty.
-- A. M. Gray, Foreword, FMFM-1 Warfighting
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Gray and Van Riper established the Marine Corps University with a focus on war and warfighting. Shortly after its founding, the Marine Corps University released the Commandant's Reading Program providing an incremental professional reading list for all Marine leaders. The reading program was focused on war and warfighting.
Does the Marine Corps University today still have the same focus on war and warfighting?
The current MCU president recently attended the 2024 Women's Peace and Security conference where he spoke on a panel about the importance of "allyship" toward women in the military.
Wearing civilian clothes and relaxing casually in front of the audience. The Marine General regaled the audience with insider information about how he likes to "spy" on his officers. Is he spying on his officers to find particularly strong combat leaders? Is the Marine General searching for officers who are strong warriors, strong warfighters, and strong leaders of Marines? No. Instead of war and warfighting, the MCU President says he is constantly spying on his officers to find the "jerks." In other words, to uncover officers who are not sufficiently woke.
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“Allyship: 1) recognize the patriarchy, recognize there’s a system of divergence… who’s the [male] jerk at the party?
2) NEVER check anyone out”
-- BGen MatthewTracy, MCU President, at Women, Peace & Security conference 2024
https://x.com/NoVA_Campaigns/status/1875382909596782820
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The current Marine Corps University President's focus on topics removed from war and warfighting is nothing new. The past president of the Marine Corps University bio explains, "She attended the United States Institute of Peace as a Commandant’s Fellow and studied Women’s Peace and Security." In addition, a long term faculty member and the former Dean of Academics and Deputy Director at the Marine Corps War College was a civilian Ph.D. with experience teaching undergraduate international ethics at Sookmyung Women's University in Seoul, ROK. She was also selected to participate in the United States Institute of Peace's faculty seminar on "Global Peace and Security from Multiple Perspectives".
A good portion of the Marine Corps University website today is devoted solely to women, peace, and security.
When he established the Marine Corps University back in 1989, General Al Gray wanted the professional development of military leaders to be focused on war and warfighting using tools such as "supervised reading programs, map exercises, war games, battle studies, and terrain studies." Gray wanted war and warfighting taught in a robust way to develop Marines leaders who can think rapidly and speak up with new ideas and new solutions. Are the Marine students at the Marine Corps University today able to speak up and engage in robust discussion? Doubtful. The current MCU President revealed at the women's forum that he has continually spied on his students looking for those who are not sufficiently woke.
How can the Marine students at MCU feel able to speak up and join in robust discussions when a single remark that does not please the President or some other faculty member may end their career?
Robust discussion, debate, and discourse are crucial for the education of future leaders. Even at the free and easy campus of Harvard University, students feel they cannot speak up.
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Only one-third of Harvard’s last graduating class felt comfortable expressing their opinions about controversial topics during their time at the College, the University’s 2024 senior survey found, reporting a 13 percent decrease from the Class of 2023.
-- Harvard Crimson
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If only about 30% of students at Havard, where anything goes, feel free to speak up, what percentage of Marine students at MCU feel free to speak up? 10%? 5%? Without open and robust discussion, debate, and discourse at MCU, the Marine students will never be able to grow into the leaders that the Marine Corps and the Nation needs.
The Commander-in-Chief has fired the boards of visitors for all the US military academies. The Commander-in-Chief and the Defense Secretary are both determined to put the military focus back on war and warfighting. Is the Marine Corps University focused solely on war and warfighting? Hardly. The problem with the Marine Corps University has been getting worse year by year.
Congress got involved back in 2023. Kristin Wong reported, "Rep. Chip Roy Moves to Defund Marine Corps University for Pushing ‘Woke Propaganda’"
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Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX) introduced a bill on Thursday that would defund a center at the Marine Corps University after it announced on social media it was hosting a “yearlong exploration of gender and security” as part of a program named after a female Marine general, Breitbart News has learned exclusively.
-- Kristin Wong
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The new Department of Defense leadership has taken its first look at the military academies, and they do not like what they see. The Marine Corps University will undergo its own examination soon.
Whatcha gonna do when they come for you?
The Marine Corps needs a Marine Corps University focused solely on war and warfighting. China is the pacing threat for the Marine Corps today. Marines had to fight the Chinese decades ago in the snow-covered hills above the Chosin Reservoir. It was not easy. Back then, when the Chinese leaders planned their attack on the Marines and when the Chinese troops attacked, it is safe to conclude that not one Chinese soldier nor one Marine gave any consideration to 'allyship' or spying on woke officers. Everyone in the bloody battles were focused solely on war and warfighting.
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Military Times - 02/10/2025
Trump fires service academy boards that oversee morale, academics
By Nikki Wentling
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Harvard Crimson - 02/10/2025
Most Harvard Students Do Not Feel Comfortable Sharing Controversial Opinions in Class, Survey Finds
By Samuel A. Church and Cam N. Srivastava, Crimson Staff Writers
https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2025/2/10/survey-results-controversial-opinions/
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Calvert Task Group - 09/01/2023
Rep. Chip Roy Moves to Defund Marine Corps University for Pushing ‘Woke Propaganda’
By Kristin Wong
I was very happy when MCU was founded in 1989 based on my experience at AWS 1980-81. The seeds of political correctness were just being planted. After TBS, three years in the 8th Marines and two years on Sea Duty, AWS came as a cultural shock. During the Company Grade Officers Symposium and in the course of the various guest speakers many of us were taken aback buy the political climate. I found it surprising that the Captains were more war fighting focused than some senior officers around Quantico and HQMC. We were thrilled when Gen Gray reversed course and brought the Corps back to the basics, to war fighting and to traditional standards. I now realize that it was a renaissance of sorts that lasted about 10-12 years before the political correctness insurgency regained its footing. By 1997 the Corps was again in the cross hairs and fighting rearguard skirmishes. This seems to have culminated in 2020 when the CMC arbitrarily divested the Corps of significant portions of its war fighting specialties and capabilities. Twenty years of a limited emphasis on warfighting prowess and attacks on the Marine culture took its toll. This combined with a toxic careerism to set the stage for today’s delusional concepts like EABO. Counter insurgency is but one type of conflict and lessons learned can deceive.
The Corps is now in a fight for its very survival and for its soul. It is the very worst kind of battle as it is internal. Of course it is the n best of times and worst of times. With a new administration comes a cold financial calculation centered around return on investment. The Corps will not survive that scrutiny. It is far too big and far too expensive for the mission it assigned itself in one geographical arena. The hope is that the new SecDef will reorient the Corps back to MEFs as MAGTF’s with a global mission. To return to that will be expensive and require the retirement of large parts of the Marine senior leaders. The first tranche would be the delusional true believers and the second tranche for those who exhibited a lack of moral courage.
Who appointed this General to the post? And does the person that selected them for the post agree with what he is saying and doing? If not, why are they still holding that position?
And what does this have to say about the rest of the stars out there? Have they all been polluted with the same ideology? I know that stars are political animals....but how far does it go?