Saving Our Service Academies: My Battle with, and for, the US Naval Academy to Make Thinking Officers

Once proud citadels of virtue, the US military academies have lost their way and are running on fumes. They need to be fixed before it’s too late.

Saving Our Service Academies covers one man’s unrelenting thirty-year fight with the military bureaucracy to instill qualities of force and thoughtfulness in officers-to-be, to show young men how to be adults with other men and women, and to show young women how to deal with the men.

Bruce Fleming has spent over thirty years teaching midshipmen an...