America's college obsession is depriving the military of the best officers, Marine says

America's college obsession is depriving the military of the best officers, Marine says - The College Fix
According to a new study by the left-leaning Brookings Institution, officer quality in the U.S. Marines “has steadily and significantly declined since 1980.”
Co-authored by a Marine lieutenant in Afghanistan who’s a grad student at Tufts University, Matthew Cancian, the paper blames college attendance rates for the plunge:
We didn’t find it was due to more minorities or women in the ranks, as many have assumed.
The basic answer is that more people are going to college.
...The expansion of the pool of college students means a larger, but lower quality, pool of potential officers.
While our data were about Marine officers, the results likely apply to the whole military.
Average intelligence has plummeted, the authors learned from data obtained in a public-records request:
For example, 41% of new Marine officers in 2014 would not have met the intelligence standards demanded of officers in World War II.
This decline is especially surprising because, as others have documented, 2011 saw the most intelligent group of enlistees in the history of the volunteer military.
Thus, even as the intelligence of our enlisted troops have been rising, that of our commissioned officers has been declining.