Establishing the National Defense Academy and Overcoming the Past

Just six months after the opening of the reestablished military officer college, known at the time as the National Safety Academy (and later as the National Defense Academy, or NDA), its administrators and faculty of academic professors and military science instructors gathered for an emergency meeting in September 1953. It is unclear if the US military advisers who sometimes participated in faculty meetings were present or not. An entire platoon of thirty cadets was on the verge of being kicked out of the school. Apparently, just before summer break began in July, one student revealed to his cohort that he