Posted on 08/01/2023 9:49:18 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Americans’ faith in the U.S. military has declined to its lowest level in more than 20 years, according to a recently released poll.
Conducted by Gallup from June 1-22, the survey found that over the past five years, an increasing percentage of Americans are now “less likely” to voice “a great deal” or “quite a lot” of confidence in the U.S. military. According to the poll, 74 percent of Americans expressed such sentiments as recently as 2018. That number has since declined to 60 percent, marking the lowest level since 1997.
As noted by Gallup, overall confidence in the U.S. military steadily improved during Ronald Reagan’s presidency and continued to “surge” following the Gulf War and 9/11 terrorist attacks. While Americans’ faith in the armed forces would go on to hover “above 70% for the next two decades,” these numbers declined to 69 percent in 2021 and have “declin[ed] further since then, following the poorly executed exit from Afghanistan.”
Most notable in the survey’s findings, however, is the alarming drop in confidence among self-described Republicans and independents. While Republicans remain the group “most likely” to express faith in the military, these sentiments have plummeted in the past three years, falling from 91 to 68 percent since 2020. Meanwhile, independents’ confidence “has dropped nearly as much — by 13 points, from 68% to 55%” over the same period, to the point that they now “have less confidence than Democrats do.”
After experiencing a slight uptick upon President Joe Biden assuming office, Democrats’ faith in the military has also dropped in the past year, falling from 68 to 62 percent.
While Biden’s disastrous Afghanistan withdrawal could offer a potential explanation for the country’s waning confidence in the U.S. military, another probable factor is the Pentagon’s ongoing embrace of DEI ideology. DEI, which stands for “diversity, equity, and inclusion,” is a divisive ideology that downplays merit in order to discriminate based on characteristics such as skin color and sexual orientation.
Since Biden took office, the Defense Department has regularly instructed its leadership to advance DEI throughout its ranks. This embrace of so-called “diversity” and “inclusion” has often included preferential treatment for self-identifying LGBT service members. In May, for instance, the Air Force authorized its military bases to host events celebrating “pride month.” Nearly a month later, the branch authorized the use of taxpayer money to fly service members to its “pride” events in Washington, D.C.
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It’s worth mentioning that Biden has also nominated several military leaders who have embraced DEI to high-ranking positions within the U.S. armed forces. Most notable is Gen. Charles Q. Brown, who was tapped by the president in May to become the next chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and has regularly espoused support for DEI policies.
Attempts by congressional Republicans to rid the U.S. armed forces of DEI have been met with resistance from the Biden administration, which has defended such policies by baselessly claiming they “promote a cohesive and inclusive force.”
What happened 20 years ago, I wonder?
Putting some womyn with a degree in journalism as head of the U.S. Navy tends to do stuff like this.
So much for the popularity of homos in the military. This lessened support surely affects military readiness.
One thing that is a fact is that many in the military are now vendor managers for vendors that do the work. Yesterday’s military took over operations and maintenance from the vendors once a system was delivered, but now vendors have lucrative contracts for maintenance and often operations. That is a BIG difference from a readiness standpoint. In war, you cannot force a vendor to take the job, but you can keep uniformed personnel on the job. Technology initially forces skilled vendors to do certain jobs, but that was decades ago.
As planned.
All it thinks about now is Sex , War what’s that
Has that pathetic little bitch ever even been directly in combat? No, he hasn’t.
Everything is plummeting under Joe Biden’s Banana Republic.
Throughout history, every pre-war military seems to be a reflection and amplification of the politics, ideology and the government bureaucracy it exists under.
It often leads to disaster at the start of new wars.
I imagine ours will be no different.
The train had to be turned around and sent back for that national emergency.
Historically, as we began each war...we were always in terrible shape...until after WW II. For various reasons...they continued to pump tremendous amounts of money into the Pentagon, and kept them fully operational through the 1950s, 1960s, 1970s and up to this point.
I think with the recruiting going south, within six years...they won’t be able to maintain all the fighters/bombers, naval ships/subs, or Corps. There’s some serious amount of funding cuts coming by 2030, and probably thirty major military installations to be cut because you don’t have the manpower. Same story for reductions in Pacific and Europe....those cuts are coming probably prior to 2030.
Biden simply eff’s up everything he touches. It only took eight months into his presidency to prove that he did could radically misuse the military. Now he simply gives away weapons and munitions making us weaker each and every month. That has nothing to do with all the fags, trans and woke running things at the Pentagon.
If you don’t believe in the government why believe in the military?
Flagrantly homosexual men and Trannies are filling up the military with undeployables. They spend most of their time getting treatment for their physical infirmities in the hospital and infirmary. Women noon clericals tend to get pregnant and are also undeployable for longish periods of time. The insistence on antiwhite discrimination in promotions has put many less competent officers and noncoms in operational positions. We have a military that now depends on a few video game wizards to fly the drones and a few skilled pilots to fly the low number of planes that are flyable and sailors to serve on the ships that are still operational. This is the military we will go to war with When China decides that we are so low on ammunition and tanks and such (Ukraine attrition) that we have no more than a few hours of response available.
Flagrantly homosexual men and Trannies are filling up the military with undeployables. They spend most of their time getting treatment for their physical infirmities in the hospital and infirmary. Women noon clericals tend to get pregnant and are also undeployable for longish periods of time. The insistence on antiwhite discrimination in promotions has put many less competent officers and noncoms in operational positions. We have a military that now depends on a few video game wizards to fly the drones and a few skilled pilots to fly the low number of planes that are flyable and sailors to serve on the ships that are still operational. This is the military we will go to war with When China decides that we are so low on ammunition and tanks and such (Ukraine attrition) that we have no more than a few hours of response available.
All good points.
Regarding recruiting slump, which is a major factor in faith in the military, most men don’t want to be under the command of a leftist CO, who would have daggers for any even mildly conservative enlistee. Plus, homosexual CO’s have essentially a free hand at ogling or molesting young men entering the service.
Throughout our own history, at least since Truman Democrat presidents have purged the military of combat experienced officers. All leftists Liberal to Communist through history have feared the military and taken steps to emasculate it and put it in a corner and they are still looking over their shoulders at it. That syndrome reached a peak with Red Obama and the Biden politburo who purged the officer corps, the noncoms and down to recruits, looking for operational incompetence and ideological purity or at least political vacuity.
They are already not maintaining the mechanical portions of the services. One third of missile subs are operational at any one time and maybe half of combat aircraft and surface ships. We have not modernized our ICBM force nor tested systems for a long time. We are rapidly becoming an ineffective deterrent.
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