An Open Letter to General Mattis

US Defense Watch ^ | April 26, 2017 | Ray Starmann

[pboyington]

Dear General Mattis,

I know you’ve been busy sir. Across the globe, our enemies are stacking up against us. The Pentagon is the virtual three alarm fire brigade, attempting to put out every conflagration caused by the Obama administration’s disastrous national security policies.

Eight years of worthless, feckless US leadership and budget cuts have severely weakened the US armed forces.

While in our history, the US military has been gutted by Congress, then rebuilt, to fight another day, the military has never been a vast social experiment as it is now.

This is something that apparently you have not focused on yet. Perhaps, you have been too occupied, or most distressingly, you have decided that you will step away from this vicious third rail in the US military; the social engineering and political correctness that is eating the military alive like a mutating tropical virus.

Americans who have never served have no conception of what the social experiment has done and is doing to our military. Sadly, the young people in the military right now; mainly believe everything is A-Okay, because like children in a dysfunctional family they don’t know any difference.

But, vets who served before the cultural Marxists and the militant feminists took control understand. We know perfectly well that diversity and gender neutrality are not combat multipliers. We understand what the military is capable of doing when it focuses on its mission; to defend the country if called upon and to destroy our enemies on sea, land and in the air as violently and as swiftly as possible.

That is the sole purpose of the military. It is not a day care center, a lactation station, a LGBT rights forum, a check your white privilege foundation, a transgender club; nor is it an organization whose sole purpose is to shame male soldiers into wearing red high heels and pregnancy simulators, while fudging standards to graduate a trio of well-fed women from Ranger School, including one 37 year old mommy.

Perhaps you should investigate sir, how these women looked like they added their ‘Freshman 15’ at Ranger School, and were in dire need of an emergency phone call to order Marie Osmond’s Nutrisystem. Perhaps you should compare them to six decades of male grads who crawled out Benning looking like Holocaust survivors.

Talk about a Bridge too Far…

Sometime in the last eight years, the wheels completely came off the military.

ROTC male cadets were ordered to parade around our nation’s campuses in red high heels to show empathy for rape victims; male soldiers were instructed to conduct PT in pregnancy simulators; the Marines were forced to endure some kind of Soviet style gender unconscious bias training, to brainwash young men into believing women were as strong as they were; there was a new lexicon of gender neutral military terms, soldiers took online classes that informed them the Bible and the Constitution were now sexist documents; there was the repeal of don’t ask, don’t tell and the celebration of open homosexuality in the ranks, the embracing of the transgender mentally ill and gender reassignment surgery paid for by the tax payers; lactation memos and instructions for the proper storage of breast milk in the field; sensitivity training in combat zones, babies born on US ships of war and the firing of a two star general and a decorated combat pilot all because he told a junior officer he was ‘drunker than 10,000 Indians.’

And, there’s the biggest piece of lunacy ever signed by a cabinet member and the death knell to our national security, Ash Carter’s authorization last year to allow America’s women to serve in the combat arms and special operations units.

Sir, in 2014 you stated unequivocally that “The problem is that in the atavistic primate world” of close-quarters combat, “the idea of putting women in there is not setting them up for success.”

And you said whether women soldiers could meet physical requirements is “not the point.” You also said, “commanders must consider what makes us most combat effective when you jump into that room and you’re doing what we call intimate killing. It would only be someone who never crossed the line of departure into close encounters fighting that would ever even promote such an idea as putting women into close combat.”

Strangely, you reversed course on this topic during your confirmation hearings in January. You told Senator Claire McCaskill and Congresswoman Kristen Gillibrand, two women who have never served and who wouldn’t know an AK-47 from a Tiger tank, that you would not reverse Ash Carter’s authorization.

The left rejoiced! So did our enemies sir.

If Mad Dog Mattis won’t stop the social engineering and the PC music, who will?

The late Colonel David Hackworth, a polarizing figure, loved by the troops and hated by the Pentagon, a man whose combat experience and rows of fruit salad made anyone take notice, warned about all of this twenty years ago. Hack was ridiculed, and above all, Hack was right. He had seen war in Korea and Vietnam and his endless travels to military bases up to his death in 2005 convinced him that the PC monster was marauding through the military at top speed.

Elaine Donnelly, Director of the Center for Military Readiness has been warning about the problems of women serving in combat for years.

As you know sir, the Marines conducted a $34 million study in 2015 that concluded in very precise detail how and why individual male Marines performed more swiftly and efficiently than individual female Marines in simulated combat tasks. The study also indicated quite clearly that all male units performed better than coed and all female units in simulated combat tasks. While the male Marines chosen were only in average physical condition, the females were some of the best athletes in the Marine Corps.

To a society functioning normally, the government wouldn’t have to spend $34 million to explain what the human race has known since our ancestors rose up on two feet in Africa. Women do not have the upper body strength of men, the physical endurance and aerobic lung capacity to serve in the combat arms and especially in the combat arms on prolonged combat operations.

This study, like all common sense was thrown out the window and into the Pentagon dumpster by Ash Carter and Ray Mabus.

Apparently, the study is still in the dumpster.

Some say allow women in the combat arms, but maintain the standards. As you know sir, the standards are never maintained. They can’t be because women aren’t physically the same as men.

Sadly, as we bask in our bountiful, beautiful sensitivity in the new military, our enemies fight and prepare to fight wars the old way, with the roughest, toughest sons of bitches they can find and suit up for battle.

Reality says quite clearly that Jane at five feet two and 100 pounds is going to die very quickly in a slugfest with Ivan standing at six three and weighing in at 220.

Reality says that Jane is not capable of carrying a 140 pounds of ruck, ammo, water and weapons into battle as efficiently as Mohammed can, if Jane is capable of carrying it at all.

Reality says Jane can’t lift and carry a 98 pound, 155mm artillery round.

Reality says that the Hollywood fantasy of the emaciated super model on an all-night commando raid, is just that, a gigantic Pinocchio that has been shoved down the throats of the American people all for the sake of diversity and the craziness known as third wave feminism.

Nine out of ten women in the military have no desire to be within 1000 miles of the combat arms, so why are we hurting women and endangering the nation to placate the fantasies of feminists?

There are hundreds of different military jobs open for women to serve honorably and to climb the career ladder without weakening our force.

A coed combat arms unit is tantamount to bringing a knife to a gunfight.

This year a baby was born on a US ship of war. The crew seemed more concerned about flying in baby food and diapers than about performing their mission on the high seas. This is the height of insanity and the harbinger of future disaster that only fools would believe is workable and normal.

Why are women serving on US ships of war with men? The US Navy has become nothing more than a floating high school.

Sir, people are looking for you to take stick the dagger in the heart of the social engineering that has turned the greatest military force on God’s green earth into a Bob Fosse musical with weapons.

When does the Fubar Express stop? Will it be when the bodies of young Americans start showing up in body bags on the 6 O’ Clock news; American kids who died because the combat arms unit they were in was deliberately weakened?

How far does equal opportunity go before it turns into national suicide?

There is no equal opportunity or gender neutrality on a battlefield. In war, the strong survive and the weak and poorly trained are ground to ashes and scattered to the winds.

Sir, what are you planning on telling the parents of American men and women who come home in flag draped coffins; that, no one in the Pentagon would stop this insanity?

Sooner or later someone is going to have to put national security above political correctness. You, sir, have the power right now to repeal the authorization to allow women in the combat arms and special operations forces.

If nothing is done, the US military is heading for a disaster that is going to be biblical. Next time we’re going to be going up against the Russians, the Chinese or the North Koreans. As brutal as the Iraq and Afghanistan wars have been, the US military has not fought a foe that has ground, air and sea capabilities since 1953.

All the technology in the world can’t erase the need for combat arms units to seize and hold ground. In war, speed and lethality win the day. Coed combat units lack swiftness, cohesion and the efficiency to put cold steel down range faster and more accurately than the bad guys.

Currently, the forces needed to accomplish that mission are weak, and in the case of the Army’s armor community, practically non-existent. We have a US Army of Lawrence of Arabia wannabes, obsessed with fighting Middle Eastern insurgencies, who are going to be facing the Third Shock Army with M-16’s and a homophobia power point presentation.

Why are we deliberately handicapping ourselves? It’s the height of folly, the pinnacle of lunacy; the peak of delusion that allows us to commit national suicide to placate cliques of feminists and LGBT flag bearers in the Pentagon, idiots in Congress and a nation of whining snowflakes.

You were the military’s last hope. I guess now, we have to standby. But, if you do nothing, no doubt, the day of reckoning will arrive, soaked in the blood of American service personnel.

Meanwhile, Task Force Smith II is headed to the sound of the guns.

To quote that immortal sage of wisdom, Harry Callahan, “It’s a hell of price to pay for being stylish.”

Garryowen!

Ray Starmann

Editor in Chief, US Defense Watch

[originalbuckeye]

Thank you. I agree.

[rlmorel]

bfl

[Paulie]

-—...this vicious third rail in the US military; the social engineering and political correctness that is eating the military alive like a mutating tropical virus.-—

Well put and 100% true.

I never thought this letter needed to be written, as it seemed (in the beginning at least) that the good General was referred to as ‘Mad Dog’ for a reason.

I am now not so sanguine about our ability to rise to the challenges emerging around the world.

[jjotto]

Mattis, like Gen. McMaster, for all the seemingly tough talk, can’t quite bring himself to say ‘Islamic terrorism’. Instead, they blame generic ‘perversion of religion’.

Low-level permanent war against foot soldiers is their thing; bloodying Islam into halting jihad in the West for a few generations is not something they comprehend.

[pboyington]

I thought Mattis was our answer. I have a lot of doubts now.

[Bringbackthedraft]

Pretty much my thoughts back in the mid 80’s. I think most of us aren’t shocked, we saw it coming, even more so after 89’ when we thought who needs all those men and bases, after the wall came down. Once Clintoon got into the pix, the pieces started to fall apart even more. Its a nasty world out there, its only going to get worse. Best prepare now before there is no time.

[Always A Marine]

Ray Starmann is right, again. Thank you for posting this.

[Dr. Pritchett]

Yes, Starmann is right, BUT he undercut his credibility a little with the last 8 years or so of hyperbole criticising the military for not conducting a coup.

He’s right on this time, though.

[Pelham]

bump

[Pelham]

“Mattis, like Gen. McMaster, for all the seemingly tough talk, can’t quite bring himself to say ‘Islamic terrorism’. Instead, they blame generic ‘perversion of religion’.”

Because they both have close personal and professional relationships with the King of Jordan and the President of Egypt, both Muslims, who have put themselves at risk and done a lot of hard fighting with us against what they themselves call “Political Islam”.

And while you may think they should gratuitously insult the religion of these two allies, the two generals have better sense than you do.

[txhurl]

Maddog strikes hard, fast, decisively, unexpectedly and catastrophically on our enemies. That’s all I need to know.

[Pelham]

Yup.

I think what many people miss is that generals at this level have many dealings with foreign leaders. Personal relationships go a very long way in bolstering our alliances. They can’t go around saying the things that we routinely do on American political boards.

[Boomer]

I hope General Mattis is listening and takes this to heart. I also hope obama and anyone who helped him do this to our military burns in hell for eternity on this alone. This is just too sick and twisted to believe yet there it is in black and white.

[savagesusie]

Just pure common sense but the Marxists have to destroy the concept of male and female and make them interchangeable for their radical egalitarianism of total irrationality for their “utopia” where Slavery is Freedom, Vice is Virtue and Up is Down.

They have to destroy concepts in little children—that there is a difference in males and females and they are doing it with their Marxist irrational “gender theory” that they warp little children’s minds with like that evil Bill Nye—the non-science guy.

They need to destroy reason and logic and all biological connections for their NWO of total slavery. They need mothers removed from raising their own babies, children so the children can be totally warped and irrational and devoid of Common Sense-—(all logic GONE) so that they will be happy “slaves” for the elite sodomites who want paganism-—hedonism and orgies with the little boys like in Ancient Greece and like in Afghanistan today. They have to emasculate males to the nth degree and humiliate them and lessen Excellence and destroy competition among males-—and pit man against woman.

They need the Christian worldview erased in the masses—the ONLY theology which put woman on a pedestal. They need to destroy respect for women in males and visa versa. They need to destroy the concept in males of dying for their women and children-—they want them to be homosexualized like the German male—where they are so narcissistic and puerile, they could care less if muslim come in and rape their women, girls and little boys.

Destroying the male/female Christian paradigm will destroy culture—totally.

[easternsky]

Excellent read

[rlmorel]

Couldn’t have said it better.

I had high hopes for Gen. Mattis, from what I knew of him. I still believe he will work to make our military more combat and operationally ready than it has been, by upgrading equipment and changing ROE restrictions.

That said, I fear it is like renovating a house on a crumbling foundation.

Allowing open and accepted homosexuality in the military is a crime.

Allowing women on ships, submarines, and combat billets is just as bad. I hoped that he was playing a political game when he went through his confirmation, and that he said what he needed to say to get confirmed.

But I have come to believe he doesn’t see it the same way I do, and the social engineering/jobs program mentality of the current military is not going to be changed.

[Chode]

to destroy our enemies on sea, land and in the air as violently and as swiftly as possible.

That is the sole purpose of the military. It is not a day care center, a lactation station, a LGBT rights forum, a check your white privilege foundation, a transgender club; nor is it an organization whose sole purpose is to shame male soldiers into wearing red high heels and pregnancy simulators, while fudging standards to graduate a trio of well-fed women from Ranger School, including one 37 year old mommy.

Perhaps you should investigate sir, how these women looked like they added their ‘Freshman 15’ at Ranger School, and were in dire need of an emergency phone call to order Marie Osmond’s Nutrisystem. Perhaps you should compare them to six decades of male grads who crawled out Benning looking like Holocaust survivors.

and there it is...

[areukiddingme1]

Ray Starmann, I F’n salute you Sir!!!

[txhurl]

It did take nearly 8 years to nearly break our forces. Extracting the perfumed princes in the era of Chelsea Manning is gonna take a little time.