The U.S. Supreme Court in its official portrait on Oct. 7, 2022.Olivier Douliery/AFP via Getty Images Travis Knoll, University of North Carolina – Charlotte The U.S. military learned a valuable lesson about race during the Vietnam War: Diversity does not happen without affirmative action. That helps explain why a distinguished group of 35 military officials wrote a brief to the Supreme Court supporting the use of race as a part of college admissions – as the U.S. military has done at its four service academies over the last nearly 50 years. While the Supreme Court has agreed in the past that r…
