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Military Brass vs. Civilian Academics at the National War College - A Clash of Cultures (Hardcover)
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Military Brass vs. Civilian Academics at the National War College - A Clash of Cultures (Hardcover)
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The National War College at Fort McNair in Washington, D.C., is the
apex of the American system of military Professional Military
Education (PME) Schools. The War College has trained such leading
foreign policy specialists as former National Security Director
Brent Scowcroft, former Secretary of State Colin Powell, and
current National Security Director James Jones. Yet, despite its
prestige, not all is right at the College. There is a festering
conflict between the military brass who run the school and the
civilian academics who teach there. The curriculum is outdated, the
courses are old-fashioned, and the college failed completely to
prepare a new generation of military leaders for guerilla
terrorism, a-symmetrical warfare of the kind we are now facing in
Iraq and Afghanistan, and democracy-promotion and national
building. In Military Brass vs. Civilian Academics at the National
War College: A Clash of Cultures, Howard J. Wiarda uses his
first-hand experience to examine the conflict between the two
cultures, military and civilian, that coexist uneasily at the
College. He also explores the issues tenure, academic freedom,
research, teaching that divide them. While this study focuses on
the National War College, what Wiarda has to say about the tensions
and "clash of culture" applies to all PME schools.
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