Foreign Policy recently published a timely piece titled “The History Crisis Is a National Security Problem,” in which author Bret Devereaux explains that university cuts to history departments in the United States have left national security leaders at a disadvantage.

What the article appears to be missing is the more challenging story that this is true not only of history departments but of universities in general. As universities continue to cut departments and whole colleges shut their doors for good, the national security effects are just becoming apparent.