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[Flash]

The sad thing is that the ones at the top now are the ones that survived the Obama purges and have embraced diversity over combat readiness.

The Democrats have done what no foreign power could do, destroy our military.

 

[Stryder50]

The OP link offers a few other articles of interest ...

The armed forces are now a vehicle for the advancement of an agenda of social justice.​

With a culture built on the tenet of good order and discipline, our armed forces have always been respected for their capability in defending freedom and our national interests. However, we haven’t gone toe to toe in a conflict with a state actor in the 30 years since the Gulf War and, in that time, our Department of Defense has changed dramatically, transforming into just another failing government organization preoccupied with advancing progressive ideology.

Military servicemembers operate under the Uniform Code of Military Justice, which means they are subject to a system of law that is stricter than average citizens are governed by. For example, while adultery is generally not illegal for civilians, adulterous servicemembers may be punished by fines and jail time. Likewise, the rules and regulations that determine what constitutes “good order and discipline” can simply be altered by executive order or with the stroke of a pen. And, unless the order is deemed unlawful or immoral, our troops are required to carry on without insubordination.
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We see that the military, which is subject to top-down imposition of new social norms, is now the proving grounds of cultural overhaul. Troops must comply with these advances as a matter of discipline. And once these norms are instituted, the argument is then made that the rest of society just needs to catch up to the example set forth by our most-respected organization, albeit involuntarily. Our ruling class has turned our military into a coercive gateway to enact broader cultural change as it attempts to force it into our lives; and now they’ve corrupted it with their racial agenda, as well.
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These politics don’t just affect culture, but degrade our military capabilities. In 2020, a memo was leaked to the media that the USS Theodore Roosevelt needed assistance and was rendered inoperable due to a Covid outbreak. Acting Navy Secretary Thomas Modly then relieved the carrier’s Captain Crozier of command, stating that he had allowed the situation to compromise his judgment and, worse, our national security. Two weeks later, Secretary Modly resigned amid public outrage. In that moment, our national leadership explicitly telegraphed that good order and discipline – and our national security – were less important than optics and kowtowing to the criticism of political activists.


There is no other explanation for the increasingly socially progressive, fiscally irresponsible, and effectively impotent Department of Defense other than that its leadership is more interested in cultural politics than maintaining global dominance. Many within its upper echelons now publicly boast of executing their duties as they see fit, regardless of the will of civilian leadership, as Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Vindman made clear during the 2019 impeachment hearing. The Defense Department from being the most respected combat-capable force in the world to being nearly unrecognizable from any other government organization where success is punished, failure is rewarded, career progression is divorced from performance, and our tax dollars are frivolously burned through at the end of every fiscal year just to prevent future budgetary reductions.
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Hollowed Out

The armed forces are now a vehicle for the advancement of an agenda of social justice.

americanmind.org

 

[Stryder50]

The sad thing is that the ones at the top now are the ones that survived the Obama purges and have embraced diversity over combat readiness.

The Democrats have done what no foreign power could do, destroy our military.

Which Clinton made a good dent in when cutting the DoD budget of "basics" such as replacement equipment, spares, munitions stocks , etc. in order to show a false "budget surplus" which cost US in ability to respond in wake of 9/11.

 

[Stryder50]

Also:
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When the armed forces serve a global corporate agenda, it’s no surprise that HR mandates are mission critical.​

When official Department of Defense spokesmen attacked Tucker Carlson—who criticized the military’s integration of diversity-centered staffing mandates—they exposed a crucial gap between what Americans believe their military to be and the true purpose of our trillion-dollar war machine. What is being interpreted as an escalation in the culture wars is actually about how our regime perceives power itself.

The primary purpose of the U.S. military is to protect the global economic status quo, sometimes known as the “neoliberal order” or “the Washington Consensus.” General Officers and Senior Enlisted men responding to Carlson’s remarks about women in combat did so in their official capacity as representatives of the United States Department of Defense, in uniform, using official Twitter accounts without standard disclaimers. While they insisted they were simply “defending their soldiers” from unjust criticism, this superficial claim fails to capture the truth about the unfolding dynamic.

The debate that is playing out right now about sex, gender, and the military is happening only because we never, as a country, actually had it. We never sat down and had a discussion about the merits of pushing our military services to adopt the goals of gender “neutrality” that have emerged as a cultural Schelling point over the last decade in the civilian world. “We” just did it, through executive orders and mandates within the Defense Department’s civilian leadership. This wasn’t part of any platform or campaign promise that a politician ran on, it wasn’t caused by any organic change in opinion by the general public on women in combat, and it was never talked about outside of semi-closed groups already intimately familiar with the data on the subject.

Scarcely anyone who isn’t already connected to the military—as a veteran, on active duty, or involved in defense policy circles—knew that it had gone all-in on complete and total sex and gender integration in all branches and roles. For others, Carlson exposed them to something that’s been in progress for years. Millions of his viewers—patriotic Americans who care about the security of the nation and have immense respect for the military—probably felt like they had been lied to and betrayed. They’ve all grown up with a general idea that the “point” of the U.S. military is to deter war, and failing that, to win the war that follows.

But this isn’t the purpose anymore.
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The Meaning of the Woke Military

When the armed forces serve a global corporate agenda, it’s no surprise that HR mandates are mission critical.

americanmind.org

 

[miketx]

The U.S. Military could have annihilated the entire sorry assed tribes in Afghanistan in a couple of days with conventional weapons. Don't blame the military because they failed to do so. The military works for the politicians and the politicians haven't been willing to fight a conventional war since Iwo Jima.

Same with cops. But they took an oath.