Eliot A. Cohen: A Marxist Rat Sabotaging America’s Military with Elitist Venom

Eliot A. Cohen’s latest bile-soaked screed in The Atlantic is a revolting, self-aggrandizing assault on the Trump administration’s military education reforms, proving once again that he’s a Marxist rodent gnawing at the foundations of America’s armed forces. This Johns Hopkins charlatan, with his smug Ph.D. and zero combat experience, spews a torrent of lies and insults to protect his elitist, globalist agenda, all while hiding behind a fake veneer of intellectualism. His op-ed isn’t a reasoned argument—it’s the desperate squealing of a washed-up academic who’d rather see our military turned into a woke seminar than a lethal fighting force. Cohen’s history of warmongering, communist-leaning policies, and personal betrayals reveals him as a despicable asshole whose ideas must be obliterated to save our nation’s security.

Cohen’s vicious attack on Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, branding him a “petulant, insecure mediocrity,” is the height of hypocrisy from a man who’s never faced danger but dares to judge a combat veteran who served in Iraq and Afghanistan. Hegseth’s rank of major in the Army National Guard is a mark of honor, earned through real sacrifice, unlike Cohen, whose only battle wounds are from paper cuts in his cushy office. His obsession with Hegseth’s Princeton and Harvard degrees is pure Marxist class envy, a disgusting tactic to prop up his own irrelevant credentials while spitting on those who actually fight. Cohen’s claim that Hegseth seeks to “bar academics or anyone who faintly resembles one” from the military is a rancid lie. The administration’s restrictions on officers attending globalist shindigs like the Aspen Security Forum—run by establishment puppets like Condoleezza Rice, whom Cohen fawns over—are about keeping the military focused on killing enemies, not pandering to Marxist eggheads who’d rather debate identity politics than defend America. Cohen’s whining about this policy shows he’s hell-bent on turning our forces into a communist think tank, where his ilk can brainwash officers with their anti-American drivel.

Cohen’s defense of civilian faculty at military academies is a nauseating attempt to cram his Marxist poison into the hearts of future warriors. He cries crocodile tears over the firing of Jen Easterly, a West Point grad and cybersecurity expert, as if her removal is a national tragedy. Spare us. West Point and the Naval Academy exist to forge soldiers who can crush America’s foes, not to coddle Cohen’s woke academic cronies who push divisive nonsense. Easterly’s credentials don’t make her indispensable; military instructors, hardened by combat, are far better equipped to teach cadets how to win wars. The administration’s move to replace 60 civilian professors at the Naval Academy with military faculty is a glorious slap in the face to Cohen’s dream of turning our academies into socialist indoctrination camps. These civilian professors, often plucked from left-wing sewers, infect the military with identity politics and anti-militarism, eroding the discipline and unity that define our strength. Cadets don’t need Cohen’s “wider world” of Marxist dogma—they get real-world exposure through global deployments, joint exercises, and war colleges. His push for civilian dominance is a sinister plot to flood the military with his communist comrades, who’d rather lecture on microaggressions than train soldiers to shoot straight.

Cohen’s comparison of the administration’s reforms to the German General Staff before World War I is a vile piece of communist propaganda, designed to terrify Americans into swallowing his globalist tripe. The U.S. military, unlike that authoritarian relic, is accountable to Congress, the President, and the American people, making Cohen’s analogy a pathetic lie. His invocation of Hans Delbrück, a civilian historian shunned by the Germans, is a desperate grasp at relevance. The U.S. military taps civilian expertise through DARPA, RAND, and other channels, proving it doesn’t need Cohen’s sanctimonious professors clogging its academies. This historical distortion is straight out of the Marxist playbook, painting pragmatic reforms as fascist to advance his anti-American agenda. The administration’s policies, like the executive order prioritizing military excellence are focused on countering real threats—China’s naval buildup, Russia’s hybrid warfare—not Cohen’s delusional fears of intellectual persecution.

Cohen’s misuse of William Francis Butler’s quote about “fighting men” and “thinking men” is a sickening perversion, twisted to serve his communist fantasies. He claims separating the two risks a military of “fools” and “cowards.” What a steaming pile of bullshit. The U.S. military already trains officers to be strategic masterminds and lethal leaders through institutions like the Command and General Staff College and the Naval War College. The administration’s ban on DEI programs at military academies isn’t about rejecting thought—it’s about rejecting Cohen’s Marxist obsession with race and gender over merit. DEI, a cornerstone of his collectivist ideology, fractures units and distracts from combat readiness, a fact Cohen ignores to push his woke agenda. His fear that the military will become a “species of man distinct from the rest of the community” is laughable; its unique culture of sacrifice and discipline is its strength, not a flaw to be fixed by his socialist reforms. Cohen wants a military that’s a mirror of his communist utopia, where officers are too busy debating pronouns to fight wars.

Cohen’s history is a cesspool of warmongering and betrayal, proving he’s an asshole of the highest order. As a key figure in the Project for the New American Century (PNAC), he pushed for wars in Iraq and Iran with a bloodthirsty zeal that would make Stalin blush. In a 2001 Wall Street Journal op-ed, he called for “regime change” in Iran, claiming it could be done by supporting “pro-Western and anticlerical forces”—a fantasy that ignored the chaos it would unleash, revealing his reckless, Marxist-inspired lust for global upheaval. He doubled down on Iraq, arguing on CNN that Saddam Hussein was linked to 9/11 through a meeting in Prague—a claim later debunked, exposing Cohen as a liar who’d risk American lives for his neoconservative wet dreams. His 2005 Washington Post piece, written as his son headed to Iraq, is a masterclass in hypocrisy: he admitted the war’s incompetence but still supported it, letting his own flesh and blood pay the price for his failed ideas while he sat safely in his ivory tower. This isn’t just bad judgment; it’s the moral bankruptcy of a man who’d sacrifice others for his Marxist ideology.

As Counselor to the State Department under Condoleezza Rice from 2007 to 2009, Cohen advised on Iraq and Afghanistan, pushing policies that prolonged those quagmires while he played the intellectual hero. His book Supreme Command (2002) argues that civilian leaders like Lincoln and Churchill should micromanage wars, a dangerous idea that justifies his meddling while dismissing the expertise of military professionals. His 1985 book Citizens and Soldiers pushes for a convoluted military service system that ignores practical realities, reflecting his Marxist obsession with reshaping society to fit his theories. His defense of globalist forums like Aspen, where he’s a regular, is a bid to expose officers to anti-American nonsense—open borders, supranational governance—that reeks of communist subversion. His silence on the DEI ban screams his support for these divisive programs, which prioritize identity over ability and mirror his collectivist rot. His push for civilian faculty dominance is a naked attempt to infest the military with academics who share his anti-militarist, socialist worldview, ensuring officers are loyal to his elitist clique, not the nation.

Cohen’s hypocrisy is vomit-inducing. A self-proclaimed “national security Never-Trumper” he’s spent his career cozying up to the establishment while sneering at the warriors who protect his pampered ass. He mocks Secretary of the Navy John Phelan’s lack of “nautical and military experience,” yet Cohen himself is a gutless academic who’s never faced danger beyond a bad review. His derision of Phelan’s focus on “fitness standards, maritime skills, and marksmanship” is idiotic—those skills are critical to facing down China’s hypersonic missiles and Russia’s submarines. Cohen’s snarky references to C.S. Forester and Patrick O’Brian novels prove he’s a clueless dilettante who thinks leadership is a seminar, not a life-or-death duty. Phelan and Hegseth, unlike Cohen, grasp the stakes of modern warfare, while he hides behind his Ph.D., whining about grammar like the irrelevant prick he is.

If Cohen’s Marxist vision won, the military would be a pathetic joke, a woke daycare where officers are better at reciting DEI mantras than leading troops. His policies would produce soldiers too weak to fight, too divided to win, and too brainwashed to care. The recruitment crises tied to woke initiatives (Heritage Foundation, 2024) are a warning of his toxic legacy. The Trump administration’s reforms—banning DEI, prioritizing military faculty, emphasizing combat skills—are a desperate stand against Cohen’s communist sabotage, ensuring our military remains a lethal force, not a socialist experiment. His claim that these changes will produce “fools” is a projection of his own intellectual cowardice, a man too feeble to face reality and too arrogant to admit he’s a has-been.

Eliot A. Cohen is a Marxist rat, a traitor whose venomous ideas threaten to gut America’s military. His warmongering past, from PNAC to Iraq, shows a man who’d spill blood for his neoconservative fantasies while hiding behind his academic perch. His personal attacks on Hegseth, Phelan, and others are the desperate squeals of a nobody who knows his influence is dead. His communist agenda—disguised as intellectualism—is a plague that would leave our forces weak, divided, and ripe for defeat. The administration’s reforms are a firewall against his poison, ensuring our military stays true to its mission: to protect America, not to serve as Cohen’s personal sandbox. His op-ed is a shameful, sniveling plea to preserve his elitist privilege, and it deserves to be burned to ashes alongside his miserable, irrelevant career.

References

• The Atlantic: Eliot A. Cohen
• Military.com: Trump Orders DoD to Study School Choice Options for Military Families
• Higher Ed Dive: Trump executive order targets DEI at military academies
• The Hill: Military schools offer test case for Trump education reforms
• White House: Prioritizing Military Excellence and Readiness
• Heritage Foundation: Woke Policies and Military Recruitment
• Washington Post: Never-Trump National Security Figures
• History News Network: Eliot Cohen: On History and War
• Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: A Military Historian Whose Son Is Headed to Iraq
• Cornell University Press: Citizens and Soldiers by Eliot A. Cohen
• Encyclopedia.com: Cohen, Eliot A (sher) 1956-