Posted on 02/13/2022 9:35:44 AM PST by blam
A retired Marine general spoke out about critical race theory training in the armed forces, arguing that the Marxist ideology will ultimately weaken the U.S.’s military capability.
Writing for military magazine Task and Purpose, retired Marine Corps Lt. Gen. Greg Newbold argued that critical race theory and related ideologies run counter to the “stone-cold pragmatism” needed to win conflicts.
“Wars must be waged only with stone-cold pragmatism, not idealism, and fought only when critical national interests are at stake,” he wrote. “Hopes for changing cultures to fit our model are both elitist and naive. The failures of our campaigns in Iraq and especially in Afghanistan confirm this.”
Meanwhile, the tenets of critical race theory—an offshoot of the Marxist critical theory school—can ruin unit cohesion, he added.
“A military force’s greatest strengths are cohesion and discipline,” said Newbold, who retired in 2002. “Individuality or group identity is corrosive and a centrifugal force. Indeed, the military wears uniforms because uniformity is essential.”
“The tenets of Critical Race Theory—a cross-disciplinary intellectual and social movement that seeks to examine the intersection of race and law in the United States, but which has the unfortunate effect of dividing people along racial lines—undermine our military’s unity and diminish our warfighting capabilities.”
If military leaders focus on differences and group identity, he added, it undermines “cohesion and morale.” After that, “failure results,” the retired general said.
“Values that are admirable in civilian society—sensitivity, individuality, compassion, and tolerance for the less capable—are often antithetical to the traits that deter a potential enemy and win the wars that must be fought: Conformity, discipline, unity,” Newbold said.
Last year, Gen. Mark Milley, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, suggested that critical race theory is being taught to cadets.
“I want to understand white rage, and I’m white,” Milley said during a contentious House Armed Services Committee exchange in June. “I personally find it offensive that we are accusing the United States military general officers, commissioned [and] noncommissioned officers, of being ‘woke’ or something else because we’re studying some theories that are out there. I’ve read Karl Marx. I’ve read Lenin. That doesn’t make me a communist.”
Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) and Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R-Texas) also claimed last year that they’ve received hundreds of tips from military whistleblowers who reported that critical race theory and related diversity training programs are being implemented in the armed forces.
“We’ve received hundreds of whistleblower complaints about critical race theory being pushed on our soldiers,” Cotton said in a statement last year. “The problem is real—and worse than we thought.”
And where is General Milley???? He is awful quiet. Guess he is planning a war with Austin.
This is important to the destruction of the US military. They are already using it to destroy our educational system and our industry. Marxism at it’s best.
This is one of those situations where nearly everyone can see the disaster coming, but due to political, bureaucratic and insider self-interest inertia, nothing will be done.
I believe the Democrats want a “woke” military so when they’re told to move into the US and take control of all the state capitals they will do so without question.
To be true to its purpose, the U.S. military cannot be a mirror image of the society it serves. Values that are admirable in civilian society — sensitivity, individuality, compassion, and tolerance for the less capable — are often antithetical to the traits that deter a potential enemy and win the wars that must be fought: Conformity, discipline, unity.Direct ground combat, of the type we must be prepared to fight, is only waged competently when actions are instinctive, almost irrationally disciplined, and wholly sacrificial when required. Consensus building, deference, and (frankly) softness have their place in polite society, but nothing about intense ground combat is polite — it is often sub-humanly coarse.
Warriors aren’t signing up for this crap anymore, in military or law enforcement.
The ineligible Kenyan from Indonesia purged all the patriots from the officer corps.
All we have left are the woke.
Warriors aren’t signing up for this crap anymore, in military or law enforcement.
Military and law enforcement are not the same things. We don't need wannabe warriors in law enforcement.
An important tactic used to destroy a nation, have its people lose faith.
I heard Winsome Earle-Sears say about this country, “I am not what I could be but I’m better than I was” (church saying)
Trump should have hired LTG Newbold to be Chairman of the Joint Chiefs. Instead he chose Ivy League General Mark Milley. Nobody’s perfect, but that’s like taking a called 3rd strike with the bases loaded with 2 outs in the bottom of the 9th.
And where is General Milley???? He is awful quiet. Guess he is planning a war with Austin.
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Or on the phone
with one , or all , our countries enemies
assuring them
he will not
follow superior officers orders,
such as CIC.
.or he could be shopping for man panties that don’t ride up his man vagina.
.or shopping for a different up and down stairs hair color.
Or maybe running out red white and blue blooded patriotic loyal faithfull service real men out of his armed forces.
It’s a toss up I would guess, any one not being more or less likely than the others.
“The ineligible Kenyan from Indonesia purged all the patriots from the officer corps.”
The solution is to fire everybody above colonel, and promote the best bird colonels to the 1, 2-star slots and re-call the pick-of-the-litter from the retired list to fill the 3, 4-star ranks. Then you carefully watch the BG’s & MG’s to make sure they are professional military and not woketards.
One of the biggest names in military strategy is Clausewitz.
Clausewitz wrote that the way to win is to reduce friction in your unit and increase friction in your opponent’s unit.
Off protesting to Biden any discussions about using national security assets to put down the trucker rebellion in Canada or the US or otherwise use them to track and suppress domestic dissent.
That’s smart. I like 👍 that.
Woke military.
While soldiers in China and Russia learn to fight hard our military is now pushing people to become queers???
LtGen Newbold was one of the good generals. He retired in protest over the invasion of Iraq.....which did NOTHING but bleed us as a nation and loose focus on how to strategically kill Al Qaeda and its surrogates.
That’s exactly what it’s designed to do.
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