West Point and football: A sickness

Maj.
Dwight Mears, a West Point history professor, manages to intelligently
criticize both West Point football and Douglas MacArthur in one op-ed piece.

Good
for him. College football today is sick, a major industry that distorts the
institutions that host it. The more West Point tries to compete in that world,
the more corrupted it and its cadets will be. The superintendent has to decide
whether to do the fun thing or the right thing. Is he up to it?

Also,
Adrian Bonenberg, a former 82nd Airborne officer who served in Afghanistan, had
a good piece wondering why failed
generals are being kept in place while successful captains and lieutenants are
being let go.