DEI Spurred US Recruitment Crisis, Perilous Anti-ICE Incitement and Other Commentary

New York Post ^ | Jan. 14, 2026

[nickcarraway]

Military beat: DEI Spurred US Recruitment Crisis

The “racist ideology of diversity, equity and inclusion” spurred a US military “recruitment crisis” by driving away thousands of white men, conclude Mike Gallagher & Kevin Wallsten at The Wall Street Journal. Brass under President Joe Biden worked “to make our military less white”; the result: “Between 2013 and 2023, annual male enlistments in the Army fell 35%”; from 2018 to ’23, “white Army recruits dropped from 44,042 to 25,070. No other groups saw such steep declines.” Happily, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s “reset,” scrapping DEI, “is working, with the Pentagon announcing its ‘best recruiting numbers in 15 years.’ ” Yes, our “successful” Iran operation and various reforms also helped drive the turnaround, “but it’s clear that stressing identity over mission drives young people away.”

[T.B. Yoits]

The push for Didn't Earn It (DEI) recruiting had been in place for decades prior. It simply reached the tipping point.

Why go die for globalists while watching your home town get overrun by swarthy illegal alien invaders that your own government is bringing in?

[WhiteHatBobby0701]

The military became a social engineering force for the Left’s causes. And the consequences were heavy on losing the military.