The woke war on American military

 Peter Knickerbocker:

Our armed forces are being led by people not tethered to reality.  In testimony before Congress recently, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff defended Critical Race Theory.  He said he wants to understand white rage.  He thinks he is a well-read critical thinker.  If General Milley genuinely wants to understand himself better, I recommend White Guilt by Shelby Steele.

Critical Race Theory, diversity ideology, radical feminism, and other woke nonsense are devastating military lethality and readiness.  Even though the beginnings of this trend go back decades, the denial of the differences between the sexes, and the more radical outgrowths of those false ideas, have become more intense than ever.  As the army of Communist China seeks to make its soldiers more masculine, our army seeks to attract more women and fewer men.  This trend has been chronicled, and its grave damage explained, by Brian Mitchell (Women in the Military, 1998), Stephanie Gutmann (The Kinder, Gentler Military, 2000), Kingsley Browne (Co-Ed Combat, 2007), Robert L. Maginnis (Deadly Consequences, 2013), and James Hasson (Stand Down, 2019).  The argument against women in combat roles, and in-theater combat support roles, is simply overwhelming.

We can no longer be squeamish about identifying those parts of the armed forces where the presence of women damages unit cohesion, lethality, and readiness.  The Defense Department should be led by people who understand this and will push back on policies that have no factual basis but are grounded in pure leftist ideology.  The White House legislative operation needs that kind of wisdom as well. 

Prospective appointees for 2025 must be committed to rooting out Critical Race Theory (CRT) wherever it exists in the federal government.  Any program that uses terms like diversity, inclusion, or equity is derived from Marxist critical theory and is intended to bring division by replacing individual excellence with identity group "equity."  As with the term infrastructure, the left has tried to redefine equity as something quite different from the longstanding definition.

This year, Lt. Col. Matthew Lohmeier of the U.S. Space Force wrote an incredible, concise book that manages to trace the history of CRT from its Marxist, and pre-Marxist, origins; contrast it with the American ideal; and disclose how it is spreading through the Defense Department along with the rest of American culture.  He gives us the chilling similarities, although muted, to the Cultural Revolution in Communist China in the 1960s.  His book, Irresistible Revolution: Marxism's Goal of Conquest and the Unmaking of the American Military, should be read by every person appointed in the next administration.

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I have lost confidence in the current crop at the top of the military in the Biden administration.  There needs to be a shakeup at the top and replacements with opponents of the racist CRT doctrine.  The fact of the matter is "diversity, equity, and inclusion" are just leftist code words for the racism they want to impose.  They are excuses for ignoring merit for the selection of leaders.