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The Dumbest Phrase in our military history is "Our Diversity Is Our Strength."
X - DOD Rapid Response ^ | April 16, 2025 | DOD Rapid Response

Posted on 04/18/2025 2:03:37 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom

The Dumbest Phrase in our military history is "Our Diversity Is Our Strength."

Our Strength is the AMERICAN WARRIOR.

They never get the applause. They never get the headlines. They never get the bright lights, they never get the microphone. No one's heard their stories. No one's familiar with their stories. One of the dumbest phrases in military history -- "Our Diversity is Our Strength." Our shared purpose is our strength. We are one DOD Community with the same mission...we are American Warriors.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
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This is a short (35 second) video narrated by (I think) Sec'y of Defense Hegseth. It's a very powerful message that talks about unity of mission and puts the idiotic "Diversity is our Strength" in the dustbin of history.

Very worth watching, especially when you think of liberal heads exploding when the watch it!


1 posted on 04/18/2025 2:03:37 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

If diversity was strength, Austro-Hungary would have won the first world war.


2 posted on 04/18/2025 2:06:09 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is opinion or satire. Or both.)
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> If diversity was strength, Austro-Hungary would have won the first world war. <

Excellent comment. Diversity is something to be managed. It is not something to be celebrated, and maximized.


3 posted on 04/18/2025 2:12:50 PM PDT by Leaning Right (It’s morning in America. Again.)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

“Diversity is our strength” is the biggest load of bovine excrement since the statement “yes, the Titanic IS iceberg proof”

Diversity is NOT our strength.

UNITY IS OUR STRENGTH.

DESPITE our diversity.

RLTW


4 posted on 04/18/2025 2:13:23 PM PDT by military cop (I carry a .45....cause they don't make a .46....)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

What a refreshing change. The communist Democratic Party has to be flipping out more every day.


5 posted on 04/18/2025 2:14:51 PM PDT by wildcard_redneck ( )
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To: military cop

Can I rephrase just a bit? Unity despite our diversity is our strength. I love that. Bumper sticker that puppy!


6 posted on 04/18/2025 2:19:45 PM PDT by jagusafr ( )
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To: ProtectOurFreedom
I'll never forget this image after a muzzie killed 15 people at Fort Hood with the caption posted underneath...
 
Army: 12 dead, 31 hurt in attack at Fort Hood | MPR News
 
"It's OK, Ma'am. They died for diversity."

8 posted on 04/18/2025 2:27:59 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd (Nobody elected Elon Musk? Well nobody elected the Deep State either.)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

I think this phrase originated with corporate quality circles. Prior to those, problems were solved by a specialized engineering team who largely had no experience with the product or processes. The diversity part was to include a diverse cross section of employees who brought different and often vital views to the problems. Then, HR picked up on the word, but not the context and we were off and running in stupid social directions.


9 posted on 04/18/2025 2:35:35 PM PDT by Gen.Blather (I had a tagline and I dropped it. The cat back-pawed it under the Barcalounger. )
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

Cancer is a diversity of cells. All hail diversity!


10 posted on 04/18/2025 2:36:03 PM PDT by TalBlack (Their god is government. Prepare for a religious war.)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

He’s correct!


11 posted on 04/18/2025 2:42:51 PM PDT by nopardons
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

A little diversity is good. A lot of it is bad. Like with everything, moderation is the key.


12 posted on 04/18/2025 2:43:31 PM PDT by Telepathic Intruder
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

Please provide the link for this.


13 posted on 04/18/2025 2:43:32 PM PDT by Lizavetta
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To: Gen.Blather

Sorry. Never mind. It’s at the link.


14 posted on 04/18/2025 2:44:24 PM PDT by Lizavetta
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

“Diversity is our Strength” just doesn’t carry the same message as “Death from Above”


15 posted on 04/18/2025 2:45:43 PM PDT by EandH Dad (sleeping giants wake up REALLY grumpy)
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That's a very interesting take on things. But could you explain that with some details?

The Austro-Hungarian Army did NOT have trannies, nor women, or even people of different races in it. Granted, there WERE people that after 1919, were then in different countries, in it. Many were NOT crazy about the fact that the Hapsburgs were intractable re FREEDOMS for Hungary, for instance; however, that, alone, did NOT cause them to not fight well.

16 posted on 04/18/2025 2:48:23 PM PDT by nopardons
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

That depends on the actual diversity.

A diverse collection of pistols, rifles, M-50s, grenades, mines, artillery, and even bayonets provide strength.


17 posted on 04/18/2025 2:51:49 PM PDT by fruser1
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To: BenLurkin
So true. It’s literally the opposite, what makes us great is what strengths we have in common. IMG-0896
18 posted on 04/18/2025 2:53:13 PM PDT by Phoenix8
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I don’t understand what you’re asking. Are you trying to say that the Austro-Hungarian army was not diverse?

The Austro-Hungarian military drew from a massive mish-mash of nationalities, none of whom even spoke the same language


19 posted on 04/18/2025 2:55:04 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is opinion or satire. Or both.)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

“Diversity” was much oversold, and for the wrong reasons. God, nation, home and family are the unifying principles of patriotism.

Diversity is the termite infestation that weakens the overall structural integrity of that edifice.


20 posted on 04/18/2025 3:01:42 PM PDT by alloysteel ( Divergence is not at all the same thing as diversity.)
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