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Who Is Our Military’s Enemy?
Leftist administrations see the military foremost as a tool for accelerating their own progressive domestic changes.
Who Is Our Military’s Enemy? - American Greatness (amgreatness.com)Leftist administrations see the military foremost as a tool for accelerating their own progressive domestic changes.
18 Mar 2021 ~~ By Victor Davis Hanson
The U.S. military has now turned its wrath inward on Fox News host Tucker Carlson.
The new secretary of defense relayed his “revulsion” for Carlson’s questioning the role of women in combat—a position that had been the military’s centuries-long orthodoxy until about seven years ago.
Pentagon spokesman John Kirby even compared Carlson to the Communist Chinese military: “What we absolutely won’t do is take personnel advice from a talk show host, or the Chinese military.”
The now-cocky Department of Defense website further boasted, “Press Secretary Smites Fox Host.”
So what was the biblically “smitten” Carlson’s crime?
He objected to the military’s fixation on race and gender in high-profile appointments—and questioned whether standards were relaxed to permit women in combat units.
Carlson objected that the Capitol is currently domestically militarized. More troops are on guard against purported American “insurrectionists” than are currently serving in war zones in Afghanistan.
He noted far too many defense secretaries—he singled out the current secretary, retired General Lloyd Austin—revolve in and out from corporate defense contractor boards and billets.
His subtext is that too many of our retired top brass virtue signal their wokeness, while otherwise seeking to make a great deal of corporate money from their prior and often future government service and contacts.
Aside from the fact that the military usually does not use its top officials to react to journalists, the Pentagon should try to refute Carlson rather than comparing him to the hostile Communist Chinese.
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The military has announced it is now conducting internal audits to root out American soldiers suspected of harboring supposedly dangerous ideas. What is going on?
One, the Left now dotes on what it envisions will soon be a woke military. It believes the chain of command can green-light progressive social changes—from women in combat units to subsidies for transgender transition surgeries to timely displays of massive force on the streets of Washington—without bureaucratic red tape or opposition from Congress.
Two, federal agencies in therapeutic fashion often dilute their traditional missions to accommodate social awareness agendas.
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Whereas all administrations used to prioritize traditional military preparedness, now leftist administrations see the military foremost as a tool for accelerating their own progressive domestic changes.
The elite military echelon adjusts—given that careers and promotions are either enhanced or sidetracked accordingly.
As a result, many of our top brass often are far more politicized than in the past, and can grow more ideologically distant from their own lower-ranking officer corps and enlisted personnel.
This recent extraordinary, thin-skinned Pentagon effort to lump Tucker Carlson in with critics like the Communist Chinese military is one more illustration of this far larger—and increasingly dangerous—pathology.
Comment:
IMHO, Canada will not invade us. Mexico will not invade us any more than they already are. And China will not invade us, they've already bought and infiltrated the Progressive Marxist/DSA Democrat Left..
Professor Hanson has justly described what has happened to our military hiearchy.
It began over a decade ago with the election of Barack Hussein Obama and his purge of the military Officer Corps and forcing out Non-Commissioned Officers.
Our once proud, strong military is rapidly becoming a joke...The loyal rank and file professional soldiers are embarrassed and the elite in the Pentagon are harrumphing themselves as egoistic perfumed fop princesses...
A point of fact.... is Vindman's promotion. Had this situation occurred prior to 2009, Vindman would have been forcefully retired because of his political opions and testimony last year.
See: Twin Brother of Creepy Impeachment Witness Vindman Is Already Getting a Promotion in Biden's Army
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