DoD Decline Into Wokeness

American Conservative ^ | March 25, 2021 | Rod Dreher

[C19fan]

If you missed my colleague Shaun Rieley’s defense of Tucker Carlson’s criticism of the military, I urge you to read it. Rieley, for what it’s worth, is a veteran of the Iraq War. Excerpt:

This seems to be the rationale, for example, behind the Pentagon’s official press release responding to Carlson, which asserts that “the American military works best when it represents all the American people.” On this account, the military is, first and foremost, an egalitarian and representative body, rather than an exclusive and hierarchical one.

But we are entitled to ask: Is this true? Could viewing the military as a representative body, and members of the military as representatives of their respective identity group, make for a more effective service? The short answer is: No. An effective military is not identical with a representative one, and neither does the military exist to be a representative institution. In fact, the opposite is closer to the truth.

[C19fan]

I am just waiting for a moment like the Suez Crisis or Tsushima.

[antidemoncrat]

“DoD Decline Into Wokeness”

The politicization of the military ought to scare the crap out of everyone.

[pepsionice]

You won’t even need to wait for a Suez Crisis...just yearly evaluations and ratings...will draw individuals into a frenzy and cause accusations of racism (even two non-blacks/non-Latinos).

I would predict by late 2022...just in the Army alone...more than 3k cases having to be sorted out by legal means...all leading to wokeness.

[Jan_Sobieski]

For the last 2000 years, LGBTQI / Transgenders were not allowed in the military because of known treachery (I.E Bradley Manning, Beau Bergdahl, etc.). Now all the sudden it’s a great new idea?! Some countries need to learn the hard way...

[ScottinVA]

That learning will occur when Red China kicks our asses in a clash in the Pacific.

[EC Washington]

This has been going on for a long time - when my Army Son was in Iraq, a Female Captain was given command of a support company. She had no idea what she was doing, but screamed sexual harassment every time a male soldier questioned her orders.

Morale was terrific

[KC_Conspirator]

Agree.

[KC_Conspirator]

I fear that as well.

[KC_Conspirator]

We are not likely to fight China. War with China would be opposed by US-based global corporations, because it would be too costly for them. (On the culture war front, US corporate relationships with China is why the Chinese can run a police state with concentration camps, with no complaints, but the real threat is Russia and former Soviet bloc democracies and their anti-LGBT legislation.)

Author is an effing moron.

Dreher sounds exactly like he is Chinese paid for.