Posted on 03/16/2021 6:57:17 AM PDT by Kaslin
While our military fights American civilians for exercising their constitutional rights, their effectiveness at their actual job is in question.
As Chris Bedford pointed out Friday, it’s no surprise U.S. military brass released a fake outrage squirrel with Tucker’s Carlson’s name on it the day after a war games leak suggesting the United States would lose a fight with China over Taiwan. Noncommissioned officers marshaling military resources to wage an information operation against an American journalist over his opinions doesn’t just happen by accident.
The operation also reveals that Carlson was right on the mark to target leftist identity politics as compromising U.S. military dominance over the globe. It also reveals that the U.S. military is more ideologically, and thus practically, compromised than many Americans will want to believe.
But nothing good comes of believing lies, even if the truth is scary. You can’t judge the right thing to do if you don’t base your judgment on an accurate understanding of reality.
If our military can’t understand its own culture well enough to succeed, how can anyone expect it to understand China well enough to beat it?
It doesn’t. Woke .mil knows that. That’s why it wants to stifle such discussions. But it’s too inept to do it effectively. 5/
— Kurt Schlichter (@KurtSchlichter) March 14, 2021
This way, we can set the stage for reform under a new President.
We can also make sure liberalism is properly assigned blame for the inevitable consequences of woke .mil leadership.
There will be a major defeat under Biden. America must understand why to repair the damage. 7/
— Kurt Schlichter (@KurtSchlichter) March 14, 2021
“The definitive answer if the U.S. military doesn’t change course is that we’re going to lose fast,” Air Force Lt. Gen. S. Clinton Hinote told Yahoo! News in its article about the war games leak. “In that case, an American president would likely be presented with almost a fait accompli.”
“Whenever we war-gamed a Taiwan scenario over the years, our Blue Team [the U.S. military] routinely got its ass handed to it,” David Ochmanek, a former deputy assistant secretary of defense, told Yahoo. “…the U.S. military is still not keeping pace with Chinese advances. For that reason, I don’t think we’re much better off than a decade ago when we started taking this challenge more seriously.”
The article lays partial blame for this loss of U.S. hard power on our nation’s refusal to pull out of Iraq and Afghanistan, which also gave Chinese forces the opportunity to intensely study U.S. strategy. It also blamed the U.S. penchant for global policing instead of prioritizing national security interests, and senior U.S. military officers’ egos keeping them from considering “that another nation would dare to take them on.” The article also fingered Congress’s perennial use of the military as a pork-distribution vehicle to favored constituencies and donors, which keeps outdated equipment in operation instead of replacing it with next-generation war materiel.
The U.S. military’s response to this expose of its failures was to attack an American citizen and domestic opponent of the current president over his use of his constitutionally guaranteed free speech. Both their choice to engage in information warfare against an American citizen’s use of constitutionally guaranteed rights and the subject matter they picked the fight over reinforce the hugely important concern that the U.S. military is compromised by politics to the point it cannot achieve its primary mission.
That is reinforced by the U.S. military’s inability to win wars against two-bit tribal warlords in Third World countries that are not a U.S. security priority, despite deploying trillions of dollars across 20 years of warfare. It is reinforced further by high-ranking military and national security officials’ decision to repeatedly lie to the elected president to keep their expensive debacle ongoing. It is reinforced even further by the U.S. military being deployed against American civilians, both in boots on the ground in the U.S. capital and in information warfare like the Carlson incident.
Now, let’s be clear here. We have elected civilian control of the military in this country because the consent of the people is the only legitimate form of governance and is guaranteed to us by our highest laws, and because that is a safeguard against becoming a military dictatorship. When members of the military take actions to subvert civilian control of them, people should start freaking out about that, and the officials who do this should lose their jobs, if not face other sanctions such as prosecution and congressional inquiries.
One way to subvert civilian control of the U.S. military is to tightly control what information Americans receive, and to conduct psychological operations on the people whose rights the military is supposed to be preserving, to attempt to control what Americans think and do. This manipulates the electoral and democratic process, and is completely out of bounds. This is the bleeding edge of a militarized police state.
The identity politics of sending women to fight the United States’ wars even though data clearly and repeatedly shows that mixed-sex units are far less effective at their core mission is only a canary in a very deep coalmine. Inviting mentally ill people with gender dysphoria to have that illness indulged at a very high cost to taxpayers and a drag on the military’s warfighting mission is another such canary. Both of these are warning signs of a rot that goes much, much deeper. And decay has consequences, including maggots feeding on it.
Carlson did not even attack the idea of female soldiers, only the idea of pregnant women fighting U.S. wars. If top U.S. military officials can’t see that pregnant women should not be on the front lines, or communicate that military policy prevents such a ridiculous situation, how can any of their other decisions be trusted, either by Americans or the men and women they are supposed to be capable of leading into battle if, God forbid, it becomes necessary?
If top U.S. military officials cannot see that people who countenance the idea of cutting off perfectly healthy parts of their bodies are not mentally prepared to serve as soldiers, how can Americans trust them to form and lead the world’s best fighting force? It is crucial for our own and for global security for the United States to be the world’s Number 1. To do that, military leaders cannot make compromises on military standards for political reasons. But they are. And everyone knows it.
We have to trust these people to not let China take over the world, but they can’t make obvious judgments and distinctions about basic combat qualifications. When a random guy on the street can see more clearly than the nation’s top generals, we have big, big problems.
That is scary. What all this reveals about the terrible judgment and politicization of top levels of the U.S. military is truly an existential threat to the nation. It is not one that will be solved by Congress sending more money to an institution this badly intellectually and ideologically corrupted. It will only be solved by Congress demanding that the U.S. military be stripped of identity politics cant and corruption, and end the failed wars in the Middle East to regroup against China’s far bigger menace to the globe.
For Congress to do that, it will have to get its own affairs in order. They have to stop the infection of this effete ideology, because the lives of innocent civilians and our nation’s entire future are on the line. China is not going to wait for us to come to our senses.
Some have even whined that b/c he did not serve, Tucker cannot comment on these issues.
But Biden never served either......and this demented chucklehead is designated Commander in Chief.
Barack Hussein 0bama, the worst president ever had never served either.
BTW I consider Biden the most stupid and ignorant occupant of 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.
Congress loves the Trannying of the military.
Amen.
Especially the rat congress.
If woke-ism advances in the military to the point where they also hate America, then we’re done as the country we used to be.
For the life of me, I can’t understand why any right-thinking American would ever join the military today.
The services have huge problems making recruitment goals, because several decades have gone by since our culture looked at military service as a male obligation.
So, the services are using young women to fill the missing ranks, while feminist idiots are trumpeting the "equality" of young women as warfighters. Women in no way can or should be in the ranks of units for direct combat because combat hasn't changed: it is the organized murder of other human beings, close and personal and soul-ravaging.
Young men have enough trouble with that - and as my own experience tells me, it is very hard to do it at first and even harder to stop once you get started. For a long time, it was my job to train those young men and to a degree, I was successful.
The other completely dismissed part of the equation is that sex in a unit is an enormous and unsurmountable distraction. In combat, you are either part of an organized, self-sustaining, cohesive unit, or you are a nonfunctional collection of couples and several very unhappy folks left out. Armed people, with rifles.
If we have to fight a major combatant force, like the Chinese, we will certainly lose if we don't stop selling ourselves fiction and grow the hell up.
When its ideology is effete
then their destiny is defeat.
....as a 28-year military vet (Navy, Army and Air Force), I sadly could not agree more...unless folks are unable to find jobs, then the military might offer some opportunities...besides that, didn’t I read someplace where in a computer simulated war against China, the US would lose....? hell; it might all be a moot point in a few years.... Jus’ sayin...’
...from another web site...a year old but still very very to the point, and frightening as hell....
“Updated May 02, 2019
About 75 percent of America’s 17- to 24-year-olds were ineligible for military service due to lack of education, obesity, and other physical problems, or criminal history in 2009, according to a report issued by the Mission: Readiness group. Since Congress ended the military draft in 1973, the U.S. armed services depend on a constant flow of new volunteers every year. While that figure has since dropped to 71 percent, the problems with military recruiting remain the same. . . .”
You know when you see an underdog in a boxing match and you just know he’s going to win because he looks “hungry”?
Well, China is hungry, and we are too well-fed and complacent.
I still don’t think that would be enough for China to beat us in a real war, but they might give us a bloody nose if we aren’t careful.
“Some have even whined that b/c he did not serve, Tucker cannot comment on these issues.”
Meh, when the military stops asking for the taxes of those who did not serve to pay their bills, then they can tell us that we can’t comment on their issues.
The “lack of education, obesity, criminal history” never held us up before. All they’re doing is making excuses. When I enlisted we had herds of the uneducated, the fat, and guys offered time in the Corps instead of prison. We all ended up fit, well-trained, and fought very well.
The real issue is that our culture and “our” government have ignored the needs that we will have to have to fight for and defend all that we have.
We have had decades of layabouts masquerading as men, only to happy to hand off the hard job of fighting to girls. Our country’s survival, our existence, depends on getting young men to “man up”, sign up, and fight.
It must have hit a nerve as the US military was defeated by a talk show host. Let us hope no Chinese communist talk show host wages war against us!
Its really disappointing that the Senate allowed that affirmative action candidate General Austin to become a Secretary of Defence.
As a General I never heard of him until he got that gig.So what was his claim to fame?I don’t recall hearing about his genius being able to defeat our enemies or do anything good to build up the strength of the U.S. Army.
All I know is what he has brought into the Pentagon.The politicization of the Military and the Discrimination against Whites who believe in the U.S. Constitution.A document they have sworn to serve and protect.
What has General Austin sworn to serve and protect?ChiCom Joe Biden and the Social Justice warrior Rats of the extream left.
The U.S. is in serious trouble and the U.S. military is the Canary in the coal mine.
Though I’m a veteran and used to recommend young people to join the service to get a start on a career those days are over and I can’t responsibly do that any longer.
“If top U.S. military officials cannot see that people who countenance the idea of cutting off perfectly healthy parts of their bodies are not mentally prepared to serve as soldiers, how can Americans trust them to form and lead the world’s best fighting force?”
That statement betrays white male supremacist thinking to the hilt for the reason that wanting to save the nation or win the nation’s wars is a racist thing. White people need to be taught a lesson and knocked off their high horse. What better way than to destroy the nation. I am not being sarcastic. These bastards are for real.
Obama was very careful to not assert American power for eight long years. These people think they are on the gun lap to complete victory over the American people, not its enemies.
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