ANALYSIS – While Joe Biden's progressive Pentagon leadership team pushes back on the well-founded attacks on its woke agenda, congressional Republicans vow to eliminate this neo-Marxist cancer from our military.
Team Biden insists the initiatives are simply about ‘diversifying' the armed forces.
“The purpose of those programs is ‘e pluribus unum,' to build teamwork,” said Joint Chiefs Chairman General Mark Milley at a House Armed Services Committee hearing, quoting the Latin motto of the U.S. meaning “out of many, one.”
But we all know that this is absolute nonsense.
It is the opposite of America's motto.
It promotes divisions over unity.
Still, much of the media, including military related outlets like Military.com continue to shill for Team Biden's disastrous policies with its implicit bias in favor of what they call diversity: “The woke term is often used [by Republicans] against efforts to make the military more welcoming to women, minorities and other historically marginalized populations.”
No, it is not that. Woke is progressive social justice code for efforts pushing a socialist inspired program to racially divide our troops and alienate conservative white Christian men in the military, while hopefully recruiting everyone but them.
This includes divisive Critical Race Theory (CRT) based indoctrination against whites and racial and gender discrimination in favor of minorities against straight white men in the name of ‘equity.'
It also means an aggressive push for the radical transgender (transexual and transvestite) agenda, forcing taxpayers to fund extreme, years-long medical procedures, including sex change surgeries, chemical castration, mastectomies and drug therapies.
Then there are the drag shows on base.
And let's not forget the new push to force taxpayers to pay for abortions and abortion-related leave and travel by service women.
The GOP has also cited the Pentagon's prioritizing preparations for climate change and the now-scuttled COVID-19 vaccine mandate as well as Biden's decision to delay shooting down a Chinese spy balloon as part of the administration's woke, and weak, defense policies.
Republicans accuse the Department of Defense of promoting diversity and inclusion in the armed forces at the expense of military readiness:
But Team Biden has an answer to that.
Meet Shawn Skelly, a former Navy commander, now Biden's assistant secretary of defense for readiness.
Skelly used to be a male naval aviator. Or biologically still is, but now he identifies, looks and acts like a woman.
As Politico reported: “She is the DoD's highest-ranking openly transgender official, and the second to hold an office [in federal service] that requires Senate confirmation. The first was Rachel Levine, who serves as assistant secretary of health.”
He (or she) says that the GOP anti-woke campaign is what's hurting the military's warfighting capabilities.
Rep. Cory Mills, R-Fla., disagrees. “When I talk to people and say, ‘Well, why aren't you looking to join the military?' A lot of them say, ‘Well, the military has been over-politicized. Well, the military has gone woke,'” he said at a recent hearing with all the senior enlisted military leaders.
“They're saying that this new focus, this new shift, this new kind of woke ideology is not impacting recruitment and not impacting our readiness and lethality? I have a hard time believing that.”
Most Republican lawmakers argue that personnel policies like diversity training, racial justice education and events like a recent drag show on a military base alienate the biggest base of the military's recruits and distract from the forces' main mission: fighting wars and protecting America.
And I would say they are absolutely correct.
Military.com reported:
Among Republicans' most cited examples of wokeness distracting the military is the extremism stand-down that Austin ordered in the early days of the Biden administration after it became clear that people with ties to the military participated in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol.
Republicans say the hours the military spent on the stand-down were disproportionate to the fewer than 100 cases of “prohibited extremism activity” a Pentagon extremism working group said it found in December 2021.
In a letter sent to Republican senators at their behest last year, Milley estimated the military spent about 5.4 million man hours on the stand-down.
That's a lot of time trying to convince troops that they are extremists and racists that could've been spent training and preparing for the inevitable coming war with China.
Referring to the GOP's anti-woke Pentagon efforts, House Armed Services Committee Chairman Mike Rogers, R-Ala., promised that “there'll be some legislation.” Still, he added, it's too early in the process to say exactly what the language in the National Defense Authorization Act, or NDAA, will be.
Just after Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin and Milley testified before the House Armed Services Committee, Rep. Michael Waltz, R-Fla., who chairs the panel's readiness subcommittee, helped unveil a report at the Heritage Foundation that blamed diversity initiatives for recruiting struggles.
Waltz promised that lawmakers “will do all we can to codify” the report's recommendations in legislation. He added that he'll “run through brick walls until we get it done.”
Now, that's a warrior.
The opinions expressed in this article are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the positions of American Liberty News.
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