A faculty member at the college, who prefers not to be named, disagrees in an e-mail with a military correspondent’s charge (about which I posted) that the college is not educating its students about the true nature of our terrorist enemies. However, the professor does acknowledge that some believe the problem exists at the college’s research branch:

This is a nutty accusation. The US Army War College goes out of its way to expose our students to various points of view from Samantha Powers to VDH. Conservatives like VDH, Eliot Cohen, and Max Boot have spoken to our students. I think this is an instance of Tom Ricks getting his nose out of joint because he saw one unfortunate e-mail.
All of the criticism has been directed toward activities in the Strategic Studies Institute, the research arm of the US Army War College, not the College itself. It is crazy to say that we don’t expose the students to radical Islam and other important cultural issues. We do. And I’ve seen no evidence of a lack of academic freedom.