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In the massive mobilization of World War I, the United States Military Academy was almost destroyed.
As class after class graduated early and new classes were added, West Point more resembled an
officers’ training school than a military academy, its larger educational mission almost lost.
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The postwar reestablishment under a new superintendent,
Douglas MacArthur (Class of 1903), began a new era in the institution’s history.
MacArthur’s reforms reinvigorated the academy and helped prepare it for a new role.
For over a century, West Point graduates were leaders in the national development of science,
education, engineering, exploration, public works, business, manufacturing, communications,
and transportation. Thanks in considerable part to West Point, when World War I ended,
the United States was no longer a developing nation but an established world power.
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