I'd take the opinion and lumps to go with it that the entirety of the argument against the relevancy and capability of the military academies could be applied to the entirety of the higher education system of the world. Applicability and relevancy are often at odds with society as the institutions of higher education attempting to approach the edge of now are often still decades behind. That is the nature of a system that needs a decade to turn on a dime. You have to graduate often two classes of undergraduates to change an entire curriculum and that is an 8 to 10 year process. Never mind national mandated accreditation requirements, degree and program requirements, curricula changes, and a host of other issues and problems. So, there is more in this game than the service academies. My question is do you want well rounded graduates who can take on many tasks and problems with creativity or do you want specialists who are tool monkeys with no sense of the wider world? I can give you the former decade after decade forever. The second is only possible in very tiny amounts and missing is a possibility if not probability.