Army Professor Launches Info War on Conservative

Are we to be a nation of legal guidelines or not? That query is one I mirror on with far more frequency than one ought to really feel compelled to in a nation begun as a republic. Despite the best intentions of those who wrote the guiding paperwork that serve as frames of order for the societies in which we live — federal to local — human beings are concerned in how coverage is applied. That leaves us with the inevitability that even the best of legal guidelines and rules are dependent on whether or not or not those in energy respect and abide by them. That’s true in capitols, courthouses, and metropolis halls across the land. It’s also true in the corridors of small metropolis college districts. We’re observing that actuality in clear play in Lansing, Kansas, where a college board member who’s also a professor at the close by U.S. Army Command and General Staff College opposed efforts to comply with Trump Administration steering to take away curriculum that advocates for a neo-Marxist worldview, and seems to have put a tactic contained within the parameters of army info operations to work against fellow elected college board members.

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Lansing is a small metropolis roughly 35 miles northwest of Kansas City, Missouri. Incorporated in 1959, this suburb is home to roughly 11,000 people. Nearby Fort Leavenworth is the main financial driver for this “city” that lacks a downtown or shared tradition around which residents coalesce, its greatest indicator of growth manifesting in the tax burden. As it seems, the most fascinating show in city is often the local college board assembly. This locale is a testbed for progressive activists aiming to full a scalable proof of idea on how to anchor left-wing dominance in semi-rural college districts nationwide and block involved dad and mom from reclaiming a voice in curriculum, spending, and hiring practices. 

Despite Kansas being a typically conservative state, Lansing voters positioned a dedicated left-wing majority on the varsity board in the 2023 election, with 4 progressive grownup males against three conservative girls. Retired U.S. Army Col. Pete Im, a former army intelligence officer, is the latest addition to the board’s left wing. His marketing campaign signage hearkened back to the I like Ike visible aesthetic. But Im’s method of efficiency in workplace contrasts with that of the revered basic.  

Pete Im, Vice President of USD 469 School Board, and Director of the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College Information Advantage Scholars Program

Weeks in the past, one of the conservative college board members, Kirsten Workman, filed a Kansas Open Records Act (KORA) request in order to acquire the outcomes of a Title IX grievance against the district that she was being unlawfully denied access to, both as an elected board member and metropolis resident. The thick packet of info in the end launched revealed a doc in which it seems Mr. Im suggested the local college board superintendent and a fellow progressive board member to undermine three elected conservative college board members in public session. 

Having served as a army public affairs officer for 20 years, I’m well-acquainted with info operations processes, described in Joint U.S. army doctrine as: 

The built-in employment, during army operations, of information-related capabilities in live performance with other strains of operation to affect, disrupt, corrupt, or usurp the decision-making of adversaries and potential adversaries while defending our own.

This aligns with info dominance practices, which emphasize “the control, exploitation, and protection of information to gain a decisive advantage over adversaries.” 

These tenets of info warfare are designed to be half of a strategy to help fight operations against opposing powers. As an Army civilian, now directing the elite Information Advantage Scholars Program at the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College, Im is no doubt well-versed in these techniques. His current function is one that consists of educating a choose group of U.S. army Majors on how to wield army informational capabilities for army gain. Military doctrine prohibits army items from conducting such affect campaigns on the American public. Yet the outcomes of the KORA request recommend that he put army info dominance expertise and method to work in such an effort this yr, a short distance down the highway from Fort Leavenworth. Ironically enough, the bottom is home to the Army’s info operations proponent.

In an e-mail dated August 25, 2025, Im suggested the superintendent, Marty Kobza, and fellow board member Aaron Yoakam to body board member Amy Cawvey’s fiscal issues as a “delay tactic.” The setting was a particular assembly that was called out of concern over a $70,000 lighting set up contract that bypassed the aggressive bidding requirement. The full context of what led to the lighting set up — tied to the Title IX grievance over athletic amenities — is a controversial story deserving of its own, more in-depth coverage. 

Workman commented for this report that: 

“In times of great societal division or turmoil, personal integrity and the standards and rules we hold ourselves to are what preserve us. After nearly two years in office, I’ve learned to ask myself when people are pointing fingers whether they are pointing at something egregious, or away from it.”

When contacted for remark about this story, both Mr. Kobza and Mr. Yoakam acknowledged that they neither requested nor responded to Mr. Im’s emailed suggestions.

In what seems an attempt to block additional deliberations, Im really useful the use of speaking factors that accuse conservative board members of sowing disorder. 

“Amy will try to spin this as a ‘meeting about transparency’ or ‘fiscal responsibility,’” Im writes.

He goes on to advocate the next response: “Message. This meeting isn’t about transparency, it’s about second-guessing and creating chaos after the board already made a lawful decision.”

Im proceeded to make predictions about issues that fiscally conservative board members would possibly share, and really useful precision messages to be used “in meeting and in messaging.” He adopted with advice on how the superintendent and progressive male board members ought to behave in order to seem more dignified and keep away from participating the fiscal and moral issues raised.

“Stay calm and steady. Let Amy, Kirsten, and Mary look like the ones sowing chaos,” Im writes.

Im’s notice concludes with a speaking level that defends the board and college district’s earlier, questionable actions with the speaking level “Title IX compliance isn’t optional or political—it’s the law.”

Mr. Im didn’t reply to request for remark.

The subject of following the law is value extra consideration. In March, Im voted against a decision to comply with the Department of Education’s steering on eradicating curriculum supplies that promote divisive DEI philosophies, or risk the loss of federal funds. His response: “So why are we putting all this energy and effort into a policy, or excuse me, a recommendation, from a federal organization that may not exist a couple more months down the road?” This adopted a vote in which Im opposed permitting academics to raise classroom security issues immediately with college board members — a stance at odds with the Army’s long-standing requirement for supervisors to keep open-door insurance policies. 

It’s additional value noting that the code of ethics for the USD 469 college board in Lansing, KS, states that members shall:

• “Make policy decisions only after full discussion at publicly held board meetings”
• “Encourage the free expression of opinion by all board members”
• “Convey respectful collaboration among BOE members”
• “Take no private action that will compromise the board”

According to board member Amy Cawvey, who Im named in the e-mail:

“State statute is very clear that no one board member has more power than another and alone cannot direct the superintendent. Only the majority of the board can do this. Not only was Mr. Im’s actions unethical but he violated state statute and his oath to uphold the law and constitution.” 

Yet no state companies in Kansas examine allegations of moral breaches at local college boards. These boards are left to police themselves, as the bulk sees match. 

Returning to the query I requested at the start, are we to be a society that runs according to its own guidelines? Shall we be accepting toward the use of ways reflective of army info operations techniques to undermine elected representatives at college board conferences? The reply is a selection, not a fatalistic inevitability. Voters and morally principled magistrates have company and accountability to drive accountability and reject the use of efforts aimed at blocking accountable deliberation in local college districts. The real query is whether or not or not they’ll.

The outcomes of this week’s election place that very a lot in doubt. Conservative board members Cawvey and Mary Wood — both referenced negatively by Im’s e-mail — misplaced their reelection bids on Tuesday. The Lansing School Board seated in January will characteristic a ratio of six progressives to a single conservative.

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