It's Time for a Scholarly Truce With Military Academies by Melissa Matthes, The Chronicle Review.
… I have been teaching at the Coast Guard Academy for only two years, but so far, at least, I have not once been asked to modify what I teach, what I say, or what I study in response to military protocol. Indeed, when I was first hired, the dean of academics said at faculty orientation: "In my opinion, if you're not making cadets uncomfortable ... you're not doing your job." I suppose he thinks of the classroom as academic boot camp. I think of it more like Michel Foucault did, teaching undergraduates how to think the unthinkable, to ask themselves: What are the borders beyond which they cannot imagine?
I'd ask my fellow academics who are reflexively hostile to the service academies the very same thing. And then I'd ask them to come teach cadets. The possibilities for democratic action abound.