Posted on 09/27/2021 10:54:47 AM PDT by lowbridge
Parameters is the quarterly publication of the U.S. Army War College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. Earlier this year on the Real Clear Defense website, I wrote an article celebrating the 50th anniversary of Parameters. I praised the journal and its editors for publishing important articles by both military and civilian writers. I noted that past issues had featured the works of Gen. Omar Bradley, Gen. Maxwell Taylor, Sidney Hook, Guenter Lewy, S.L.A. Marshall, Michael Howard, and Edward Luttwak. But now it seems that the “woke revolution” has infiltrated the War College with the latest issue of Parameters that features an article entitled “The Alt-Right Movement and U.S. National Security,” by Matthew Valasik, associate professor of sociology at Louisiana State University, and Dr. Shannon Reid, associate professor of criminal justice and criminology at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.
Their article examines what the authors call “the disconcerting connection between the US military and the White power movement,” and traces its historical roots to before the American Civil War. The authors allege that “there is an overrepresentation of military veterans affiliated with far-right groups and the broader White power movement.” Military veterans, they write, have a “greater willingness to join far-right groups than the average civilian.”
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To combat the White power movement, the authors recommend that the military “suppress the far-right activities of both active-duty and retired service members.” They seem to believe that the Uniform Code of Military Justice would permit the monitoring of all digital communications of active-duty service members and veterans, though they acknowledge that the ethics and legality of such monitoring would be “problematic.” The authors, however, need not worry because the woke social media platforms are already censoring “viewpoints” they deem to be dangerous or untruthful, or incompatible with the platform’s standards.
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So they wanna go after retirees?
What next….FBI informants at ever American Legion post?
It would be interesting to see if one of our Louisiana based members could hunt down just how much the taxpayers of Louisiana pay this guy annually.
Gen. George S. Patton got a degree from the US War College.
Now he really would have to regretfully say he shouldn’t have slapped a soldier-——he should have known the guy had been triggered and then sent him to a safe space with a teddy bear, coloring book and a friendly puppy like today.
Authored by an associate professors of sociology and criminal justice? Lots of credibility, there.
Strange how we retired military folks - many serving as volunteers in our communities and donating to local causes - scare so many. Keep pushing us around & threatening us - that will surely make it better.
Alt-Right as defined by libtards: anybody who isn’t a full throated socialist
It is sickening to those who have served in infantry combat to think of any LGBT type in their unit on any small unit ( platoon or recon OP).`I cannot imagine any gay type in the officers or NCO’s showers at base camp in a war zone, let alone one on any combat OP. I can picture two men pulling their gay crap on the Cambodian border with 32 men or less. Sick military is what we have. They are why we do not win wars now. Add idiot Gens like Milley. How do we win wars riding up and down roads?
In early July 1863, Confederate Cavalry, under Jeb Stuart, raided up to Carlisle, Pennsylvania, as part of Robert E Lee’s Northern Excursion! Stuart’s efforts up in that area ended up DEPRIVING Lee of much needed scouting when the Confederate forces squared off against the Union at Gettysburg!
What I wonder is how the U.S. Army War College would react if Jeb were to make a visit today. Would their tighty whities get a stain? Would these ‘associate professors’ and their writings prevail? By the way, do ex-military lose their civil rights of ‘freedom to associate’ and ‘free speech’? Sounds like these two think that!
But they didn't listen.
“far right” = Patriotic American
“White power movement” = Not a racist Marxist
At what point will all of us who served in the US military and have a DD214 will be declared traitors and arrested?
Please read the full article of the type of anti-military and anti-American Bravo Sierra that is now being taught at the Army’s War College.
Yes, it is sad. I can state that in my SF unit if a man was good we could care less about his color or nationality. He was an equal or better then others under fire.
“Strange how we retired military folk.... scare so many.”
Well, I can tell you right now if this retired recruiter ever gets up enough energy to get out of my recliner, those bastards are in for a world of hurt. Yeah, that’s right. I said it.
“White Surpremacy” = Western Civilization
Try “Supremacy”.
The Army War College went “woke” during the Obama administration, and Trump was basically clueless about it.
Oops.
bkmk
In the old days they would have recognized “Wokeism” as a
foreign belief system, and stomped on it.
I believe in having differing points of view, but I don’t
believe on buying into the destruction of our nation, and
that exactly what is taking place.
The adults in the room need to wake up and smell the roses,
and start cutting some of the weeds down to size.
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