Actually, the way the article is written seems to conflate two things, the DEI on the one hand and the “damning report” on the other. The report is one of the most impressively honest things I’ve seen in years, and done in 45 days with a one page summary. As far as I could see, it’s not suggesting DEI to fix the ship building delays.
I know what you mean… However, I view many of the problems in industry and the US military (specifically the Navy, as a former sailor) As part and parcel of the same thing.
Absolutely everything from ships colliding In the south China Sea to delays and repairs of naval ships, I think can be completely tied to the lack of competency,
Which is directly tied to the trend of hiring people based on the color of their skin or their sex, rather than their competency at the skill needed to navigate a ship or manage a ship repair or ship building program.
I viewed this DEI bullshit as one of the most critical problems facing our nation because it has tentacles into just about everything from politics to the military to Medical processes.
The left has baked DEI into everything, and the only thing that will get us out of it is a catastrophe of some kind in my opinion. That catastrophe may be a war we get our clock cleaned, or financial catastrophe. But I do think that’s what it’s going to take.
I understand that is a pessimistic view. I just don’t know how to see it any other way.