Admiral Ann Rondeau’s term as Naval Postgraduate School (NPS) president expires in January. Instead of extending her appointment, it is imperative that Secretary of the Navy Carlos del Toro move on from this ruinous appointment that was made during the Trump years, and appoint a qualified leader capable of moving NPS forward.
Rondeau has long
surrounded herself with sycophants, dirty war apologists and far-right mavens.
VADM Rondeau
would be found grossly wanting if measured by Attribute No. 1 of the United
States Naval Academy's "Seven Attributes of Graduating Midshipmen":
“Selfless leaders who value diversity and create an ethical command climate
through their example of personal integrity and moral courage.”
Glenn E. Robinson, Guest Commentary: Time for new leadership at NPS
Admiral Ann Rondeau’s term as NPS president expires in January. Instead of
extending her appointment, it is imperative that Secretary of the Navy Carlos
del Toro move on from this ruinous appointment that was made during the Trump
years, and appoint a qualified leader capable of moving NPS forward. ...
Both by written rule and long-standing customary practice, the NPS president
plays only a ceremonial role in academic issues. Navy admirals are no more
qualified to run academic matters at a university than I am to run an aircraft
carrier. The president’s job is to defend the university and its resources. The
provost ought to be and usually is a highly regarded scholar who is the chief
academic officer at NPS. This division of labor has been clear for years: the
president’s focus was on protecting and promoting NPS nationally, while the
provost was focused on ensuring academic excellence on campus.
Rondeau understands none of this. As a result, she has lost the trust of the
NPS community. In my 30 years as a professor there, no other president has been
viewed so poorly by the faculty. Resignations and retirements have soared since
she was appointed president, with some of the best and brightest faculty at the
school either leaving or stepping down from leadership roles. Of the dozen
people on her current “leadership team,” only the provost is a civilian
scholar. The result is the creation of a centralized, top-down decision-making
culture that might be expected at a regular military base, but would be the
death of any high-achieving university. So bad is Rondeau’s leadership that the
faculty have met openly to discuss taking an unprecedented vote of no confidence
in her. ...
When the academic deans at NPS pushed back against these plans, Rondeau tried
to bully them into pledging their loyalty to her personally. When they refused
this outrageous demand, she eliminated the positions of academic deans, replacing
them all with a single military officer. This was just the most dramatic of the
many steps she has taken to marginalize the faculty at NPS.
Secretary del Toro is an NPS graduate himself and cares deeply about the
institution, as do I. Rondeau should immediately announce she will not seek an
extension of her five-year term when it ends in January. In any case, Secretary
del Toro should begin the process of searching for a new NPS president: one who
knows what makes NPS special and who will work with the faculty to rebuild the
status of what has been the crown jewel of graduate education in the U.S.
military.
Robinson retired as Professor of Defense Analysis in December 2021 after a
30-year career at NPS. A longer version of this was sent to the Secretary of
the Navy in June and is available through the author at glennerobinson [at] berkeley.edu.
Martin Edwin Andersen, twice vindicated national security and human rights
whistleblower and former assistant professor at the National Defense
University:
Chile’s vicious far-right nightmare, 50 years on …
Case Study on Neo-Nazi Infiltration: The Pentagon's National Defense University
and ‘Vichy Ann’ Rondeau, et. al
"National Defense University (NDU) Professor Jaime Garcia Covarrubias was
convicted of torture and murder in Chile of two unarmed detainees in two
separate cases. In August 2020, the NDU professor was one of those found guilty
in the September 1973 murder of unarmed detainee and math teacher Rubén Eduardo
Morales Jara. The other case involves Chilean lawyer Jaime Emilio Eltit
Spielmann, who was detained and went missing on the 13th of September of the
same year. It is important to note, given what continues in this pleading, that
Eltit Spielmann was Jewish, and that key partners in the international
terrorist organization in which Garcia Covarrubias was a rising star were
intimately linked to a group of German Nazis in hiding in Chile.
"The information includes 27 August 1974 communications by the Chilean
head of the DINA, Director of National Intelligence, Manuel Contreras, to the
deputy foreign minister of that country. Posted on 31 March 2021 by the
National Security Archive, a well-respected non-government organization, the
letter from Colonel Contreras requested official passports for a trip to Brazil
for twelve officers, including DINA agents who later were involved in the
car-bomb murders of the exiled democratic General Carlos Prats in Argentina and
former Chilean foreign minister Orlando Letelier in Washington, D.C., less than
a mile from the White House.
"In an email sent to me by retired Columbia University journalism
professor John Dinges, one of the world’s leading historians on the Letelier
murder and of the DINA’s international terrorist reach, among the “rogues
gallery of DINA personalities” listed in the Contreras communication was Garcia
Covarrubias.
"It should be noted that the future NDU professor later became a senior
leader in the brutal dictatorship of Captain General Augusto Pinochet, the
person about who then Secretary of State Shultz said in secret 1987 memorandum
to President Ronald Reagan the CIA had “convincing evidence” of his ordering
the 1976 assassination of Letelier and his American (Jewish) colleague, Ronni
Moffitt (and someone who considered eliminating Col. Contreras to cover it up).
..."
https://www.academia.edu/60299692/Case_Study_on_Neo_Nazi_Infiltration_The_Pentagons_National_Defense_University_and_Vichy_Ann_Rondeau_et_al
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https://www.academia.edu/95489658/_Secret_Wars_and_vice_ADM_Ann_E_Rondeau_now_before_the_United_States_Court_of_Appeals_for_the_Fourth_Circuit
https://www.academia.edu/50005882/VADM_ret_Ann_Rondeau_General_Mark_Milley_and_a_Reichstag_moment_at_the_National_Defense_University
https://www.academia.edu/49657089/LinkedIn_the_worlds_largest_professional_networking_platform_and_the_case_before_the_International_Criminal_Court_Adm_Ann_Rondeau_et_al
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