Proud, you say?
Looks like the military's new Woke recruits have a lot of interest in military PRIDE. They even have a new flag...
Posted on 07/25/2022 5:15:53 AM PDT by MtnClimber
Alienating half the country is not a wise strategy of military recruitment.
The U.S. Army has met only 40 percent of its 2022 recruiting goals.
In fact, all branches of the military are facing historic resistance to their current recruiting efforts. If some solution is not found quickly, the armed forces will radically shrink or be forced to lower standards—or both.
Such a crisis occurs importunely as an aggressive Russia, China, Iran, and North Korea believe the Biden Administration and the Pentagon have lost traditional U.S. deterrence.
That pessimistic view abroad unfortunately is now shared by many Americans at home. In 2021, the Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation and Institute conducted its periodic poll of attitudes toward the U.S. military. The result was astonishing. Currently, only 45 percent of Americans polled expressed a great deal of trust in their armed forces. Confidence had dived 25 points since an early 2018 poll.
Military officials cite both the usual and a new array of challenges in finding suitable young soldiers—drug use, gang affiliation, physical and mental incapacities, and the dislocations arising from the COVID pandemic and vaccination mandates. But they are too quiet about why such supposedly longer-term obstacles suddenly coalesced in 2022—as if their own leadership and policies have had no effect in discouraging tens of thousands of young men and women to join them.
The Greatest Skedaddle in Modern American History
A year ago, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and Joint Chiefs Chairman Mark Milley were assuring the country not to worry over Joe Biden’s strange ideas of abruptly pulling out all U.S. troops from Afghanistan. The radical step was purportedly to coincide with Biden’s planned 20-year celebratory event marking his role in ensuring an iconic end of the war on terror that began on September 11, 2001.
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What will they blame this on? Trump?
The Admin/moderator informs me that VDH must be exerpted so go to the link for the full article.
? What the heck is that.?
Every institution is being remade, so you will lose heart in your country.
O'Biden is STILL sending Billions of our dollars to Afghanistan.. What's THAT all about.? :(
What this means is we’re easy pickens.
Sounds like really, REALLY stretching for an excuse. They could have said "people don't want to be forced to take the death jab".
And you can bet the Chinese are taking notes.
There are 2 apparent problems with this statement.
First, the Woke do not constitute one-half of this country. Just a small, but very loud and powerful minority.
Second, VDH assumes the military has a traditional recruiting strategy. What if the military now has a strategy of recruiting only Woke soldiers?
The standards have already been lowered. Lloyd Austin is SecDef and General Milley is still not standing in front of a firing squad. Our best troops are being purged from the ranks.
Who wants to serve the woke military of a decadent country?
How To Erode the World’s Greatest Military - and the dream of communists everywhere is drawing nearer.
FR Index of his articles: Victor Davis Hanson on FR
Town Hall: Victor Davis Hanson on Town Hall
American Greatness: Victor Davis Hanson on American Greatness
His website: Victor Davis Hanson
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....very true.....it’s obvious...all around us....it might be wise to consider taking some classes in conversational Mandarin, though....might come in handy in the not-so-distant future.....
Proud, you say?
Looks like the military's new Woke recruits have a lot of interest in military PRIDE. They even have a new flag...
Well gee, let’s see...they protect and encourage homosexusls and gender confused folks in the ranks...there is a Commander in Chief that is literally demented and would kill thousands of them for a few more votes. What could be wrong?
And who wants to rule the new Sodom/Gomorrah. Xi doesn't want his people contracting monkeypox.
Xi can just cut a deal with Joe to acquire our most valuable assets for pennies on the dollar. No shots fired.
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