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The U.S. Military is Going Woke Thanks to 'Elite' Education
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Leroy N. Soetoro
Jul 30, 2022, 1:44:30 PM7/30/22
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Ienlisted in the Navy in 1981 during President Ronald Reagan's campaign to
restore U.S. military dominance in the face of Soviet totalitarianism's
global resurgence. It's hard for veterans of my age cohort to stomach the
latest news. The Associated Press recently reported that "the U.S.
military faces what a top general called 'unprecedented challenges' in
bringing in recruits." Earlier this week, a watchdog group sued the
Pentagon for teaching critical race theory to naval recruits.
For over 40 years, I served our nation. I saw plenty. Most of it great.
Some of it, not so great. I had never witnessed, however, the leadership
of our armed forces determined to blow up the best elements of America's
most worthy of institutions. Yet it's happening today, and the tool being
used to demolish the U.S. military is society's most venomous and
exploitative force: wokeism. How did this happen?
Virtually every challenge has a life cycle. The military itself birthed
this one by building a system that miseducates our officers. Over the
course of decades, Pentagon luminaries convinced themselves that non-
military education forges better practitioners of the arts and sciences of
warfare. So in terms of instruction, military officers are on par with
their civil-servant and academic counterparts. You might think that's
fantastic. It's not. This ruinous and disorienting requirement has left
our military leaders as far afield from their war-fighting forebears of
the previous centuries as one could possibly imagine.
Our officers are politically and socially indoctrinated right alongside
the population that passes through our colleges and universities. We send
our officers to Ivy League schools and other elite institutions of "higher
learning" to supposedly round out their educations. They complete
undergraduate and graduate degrees in the humanities, most of which have
little, if any, connection to warfare (or even reality). While I would
hope to make the exception with STEM-related programs, they too have
succumbed to the pull of woke indoctrination.
Our nation's official war colleges offer little solace. They seem
suicidally determined to out-progressive their rabidly progressive
civilian counterparts. Whatever the case, without advanced degrees from
these institutions, officers can turn in their resignation letters at the
10-year mark. Their careers will go no further.
Eager to fit in on campus, many officers seek to demonstrate that they are
not quite so bad as their civilian colleagues think. They want to be
thoughtful and understanding, politically correct in ways that make them
less distasteful to their temporary peers. The ideologies they absorb—to
be fair, sometimes out of survival—flow back to base, out to sea, onto the
field, and straight into the Pentagon, where woke mantras are now
fostered, promoted, and enshrined into policy with evangelical zeal.
Many find it difficult to shake the woke indoctrination of their campus
experience. Back on duty in Arlington, officers are wholly dependent upon
the approval of their civilian bosses. Uniformed "leaders" in the five-
sided building may be physically brave, but too many are moral cowards.
Some are embarrassments, such as the current chairman of the Joint Chiefs
of Staff, who can't seem to apologize enough for having accepted his
appointment from the prior commander in chief. Mark Milley couldn't care
less about white rage or social justice. But he's been educated and
conditioned his entire career to say and do whatever he must to please his
boss, and his boss's boss, for the all-powerful Officer Evaluation Report,
which determines whether careers sink or soar. Milley expects his
subordinates to mirror his choices. This is a supremely pathetic mark on
the epic story of our military.
Wokeness is a sickness. It's prevalent. It's the rule. And it's destroying
our military.
I have seen more than my share of smart, committed military tacticians and
strategists return from post-grad programs eager to put all their "new"
knowledge to the test. The results usually resemble lab work. Let's try a
social science approach picked up at UPenn or Georgetown that, executed
under just the right conditions wherein the Taliban are responsible
statesmen and partners, allows us to bypass the distasteful work of
defeating them using the effective, but ugly, method of total warfare. As
with most lab work, the "just-right" conditions exist only in the
classroom and, sadly, never on the battlefield.
To Carl Von Clausewitz, it was the period of total war that eventually
created the conditions for peace. Conversely, in the 1960s (from whence
college campuses have yet to emerge) it was "make love, not war." In the
disoriented mind of the modern, educated warrior, it is a confusing "make
love and war" hybrid. Well, the results are in. Just look at Afghanistan.
The realities of warfare are unpalatable to classmates at Harvard or
American University. Servicemembers have to watch what they say, write,
and think. Yet by so doing, they separate themselves even further from
what should be the point of their continuing education: operational
superiority on the battlefield.
The military need not look to the outside world for affirmation of its
methods, nor for advice on the grave work required to defeat our nation's
enemies. The only advance knowledge our nation's military needs is that
which fosters and enables superiority on any field of battle. Everything
else is a fatal distraction.
Recruitment problems are a symptom of the failure to educate and cultivate
genuine military leaders. The young and service-ready of our nation still
want to stand out as elite guardians of their society against foreign
threats and domestic ruin. Unfortunately, if what they are being asked to
join is no longer discernible from the disorientation of modern civil
society, and they are smart enough to notice, then the question
understandably becomes, "what's the point?"
Frank Wuco is a retired Naval Intelligence Officer with 23 years of
active-duty service, including multiple sea and wartime deployments. He
also served as a senior advisor in the Trump administration to the U.S.
Department of Homeland Security, the U.S. State Department Arms Control
Bureau, and the U.S. Agency for Global Media. Follow him on Twitter
@FrankWuco (https://twitter.com/frankwuco)
--
"LOCKDOWN", left-wing COVID fearmongering. 95% of COVID infections
recover with no after effects.
No collusion - Special Counsel Robert Swan Mueller III, March 2019.
Officially made Nancy Pelosi a two-time impeachment loser.
Donald J. Trump, cheated out of a second term by fraudulent "mail-in"
ballots. Report voter fraud: sf.n...@mail.house.gov
Thank you for cleaning up the disaster of the 2008-2017 Obama / Biden
fiasco, President Trump.
Under Barack Obama's leadership, the United States of America became the
The World According To Garp. Obama sold out heterosexuals for Hollywood
queer liberal democrat donors.
President Trump boosted the economy, reduced illegal invasions, appointed
dozens of judges and three SCOTUS justices.
opinion-1728845
Ienlisted in the Navy in 1981 during President Ronald Reagan's campaign to
restore U.S. military dominance in the face of Soviet totalitarianism's
global resurgence. It's hard for veterans of my age cohort to stomach the
latest news. The Associated Press recently reported that "the U.S.
military faces what a top general called 'unprecedented challenges' in
bringing in recruits." Earlier this week, a watchdog group sued the
Pentagon for teaching critical race theory to naval recruits.
For over 40 years, I served our nation. I saw plenty. Most of it great.
Some of it, not so great. I had never witnessed, however, the leadership
of our armed forces determined to blow up the best elements of America's
most worthy of institutions. Yet it's happening today, and the tool being
used to demolish the U.S. military is society's most venomous and
exploitative force: wokeism. How did this happen?
Virtually every challenge has a life cycle. The military itself birthed
this one by building a system that miseducates our officers. Over the
course of decades, Pentagon luminaries convinced themselves that non-
military education forges better practitioners of the arts and sciences of
warfare. So in terms of instruction, military officers are on par with
their civil-servant and academic counterparts. You might think that's
fantastic. It's not. This ruinous and disorienting requirement has left
our military leaders as far afield from their war-fighting forebears of
the previous centuries as one could possibly imagine.
Our officers are politically and socially indoctrinated right alongside
the population that passes through our colleges and universities. We send
our officers to Ivy League schools and other elite institutions of "higher
learning" to supposedly round out their educations. They complete
undergraduate and graduate degrees in the humanities, most of which have
little, if any, connection to warfare (or even reality). While I would
hope to make the exception with STEM-related programs, they too have
succumbed to the pull of woke indoctrination.
Our nation's official war colleges offer little solace. They seem
suicidally determined to out-progressive their rabidly progressive
civilian counterparts. Whatever the case, without advanced degrees from
these institutions, officers can turn in their resignation letters at the
10-year mark. Their careers will go no further.
Eager to fit in on campus, many officers seek to demonstrate that they are
not quite so bad as their civilian colleagues think. They want to be
thoughtful and understanding, politically correct in ways that make them
less distasteful to their temporary peers. The ideologies they absorb—to
be fair, sometimes out of survival—flow back to base, out to sea, onto the
field, and straight into the Pentagon, where woke mantras are now
fostered, promoted, and enshrined into policy with evangelical zeal.
Many find it difficult to shake the woke indoctrination of their campus
experience. Back on duty in Arlington, officers are wholly dependent upon
the approval of their civilian bosses. Uniformed "leaders" in the five-
sided building may be physically brave, but too many are moral cowards.
Some are embarrassments, such as the current chairman of the Joint Chiefs
of Staff, who can't seem to apologize enough for having accepted his
appointment from the prior commander in chief. Mark Milley couldn't care
less about white rage or social justice. But he's been educated and
conditioned his entire career to say and do whatever he must to please his
boss, and his boss's boss, for the all-powerful Officer Evaluation Report,
which determines whether careers sink or soar. Milley expects his
subordinates to mirror his choices. This is a supremely pathetic mark on
the epic story of our military.
Wokeness is a sickness. It's prevalent. It's the rule. And it's destroying
our military.
I have seen more than my share of smart, committed military tacticians and
strategists return from post-grad programs eager to put all their "new"
knowledge to the test. The results usually resemble lab work. Let's try a
social science approach picked up at UPenn or Georgetown that, executed
under just the right conditions wherein the Taliban are responsible
statesmen and partners, allows us to bypass the distasteful work of
defeating them using the effective, but ugly, method of total warfare. As
with most lab work, the "just-right" conditions exist only in the
classroom and, sadly, never on the battlefield.
To Carl Von Clausewitz, it was the period of total war that eventually
created the conditions for peace. Conversely, in the 1960s (from whence
college campuses have yet to emerge) it was "make love, not war." In the
disoriented mind of the modern, educated warrior, it is a confusing "make
love and war" hybrid. Well, the results are in. Just look at Afghanistan.
The realities of warfare are unpalatable to classmates at Harvard or
American University. Servicemembers have to watch what they say, write,
and think. Yet by so doing, they separate themselves even further from
what should be the point of their continuing education: operational
superiority on the battlefield.
The military need not look to the outside world for affirmation of its
methods, nor for advice on the grave work required to defeat our nation's
enemies. The only advance knowledge our nation's military needs is that
which fosters and enables superiority on any field of battle. Everything
else is a fatal distraction.
Recruitment problems are a symptom of the failure to educate and cultivate
genuine military leaders. The young and service-ready of our nation still
want to stand out as elite guardians of their society against foreign
threats and domestic ruin. Unfortunately, if what they are being asked to
join is no longer discernible from the disorientation of modern civil
society, and they are smart enough to notice, then the question
understandably becomes, "what's the point?"
Frank Wuco is a retired Naval Intelligence Officer with 23 years of
active-duty service, including multiple sea and wartime deployments. He
also served as a senior advisor in the Trump administration to the U.S.
Department of Homeland Security, the U.S. State Department Arms Control
Bureau, and the U.S. Agency for Global Media. Follow him on Twitter
@FrankWuco (https://twitter.com/frankwuco)
--
"LOCKDOWN", left-wing COVID fearmongering. 95% of COVID infections
recover with no after effects.
No collusion - Special Counsel Robert Swan Mueller III, March 2019.
Officially made Nancy Pelosi a two-time impeachment loser.
Donald J. Trump, cheated out of a second term by fraudulent "mail-in"
ballots. Report voter fraud: sf.n...@mail.house.gov
Thank you for cleaning up the disaster of the 2008-2017 Obama / Biden
fiasco, President Trump.
Under Barack Obama's leadership, the United States of America became the
The World According To Garp. Obama sold out heterosexuals for Hollywood
queer liberal democrat donors.
President Trump boosted the economy, reduced illegal invasions, appointed
dozens of judges and three SCOTUS justices.
Rudy Canoza
Jul 30, 2022, 2:00:42 PM7/30/22
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On 7/30/2022 10:44 AM, Leroy N. Soetoro wrote:
> https://www.newsweek.com/us-military-going-woke-thanks-elite-education-
> opinion-1728845
>
> Ienlisted in the Navy in 1981 during President Ronald Reagan's campaign to
> restore U.S. military dominance in the face of Soviet totalitarianism's
> global resurgence. It's hard for veterans of my age cohort to stomach the
> latest news. The Associated Press recently reported that "the U.S.
> military faces what a top general called 'unprecedented challenges' in
> bringing in recruits." Earlier this week, a watchdog group sued the
> Pentagon for teaching critical race theory to naval recruits.
Nearly every word of this paragraph is bullshit. There was no "global
> https://www.newsweek.com/us-military-going-woke-thanks-elite-education-
> opinion-1728845
>
> Ienlisted in the Navy in 1981 during President Ronald Reagan's campaign to
> restore U.S. military dominance in the face of Soviet totalitarianism's
> global resurgence. It's hard for veterans of my age cohort to stomach the
> latest news. The Associated Press recently reported that "the U.S.
> military faces what a top general called 'unprecedented challenges' in
> bringing in recruits." Earlier this week, a watchdog group sued the
> Pentagon for teaching critical race theory to naval recruits.
resurgence" of the Soviet Union in the early 1980s. No one is teaching
"critical race theory" to any military recruits.
>
> For over 40 years, I served our nation.
Lustig Kegel
Jul 30, 2022, 2:22:00 PM7/30/22
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On Sat, 30 Jul 2022 11:00:39 -0700, Rudy Canoza <notg...@gmail.com>
wrote:
>> For over 40 years, I served our nation.
>
>You never "served" the nation. Being in the military is not "service." It's a job.
SERVE
perform duties or services for (another person or an organization).
to do military or naval service
Get a dictionary, dwarf.
LOL
wrote:
>> For over 40 years, I served our nation.
>
>You never "served" the nation. Being in the military is not "service." It's a job.
perform duties or services for (another person or an organization).
to do military or naval service
Get a dictionary, dwarf.
LOL
FMFx2
Jul 30, 2022, 6:13:33 PM7/30/22
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Rudy Canoza <notg...@gmail.com> wrote in
news:dleFK.137290$%i2.1...@fx48.iad:
I served my country. It was an honor and I am grateful for the
opportunity.
The patriots who founded this country didn't see it your way. The
majority of US citizens saw it my way until the poison of the left wing
communists contaminated the USA in the 1960s. Pot and liberalism are the
worst things that ever happened to this country. It weakened it and it
was deliberate.
Why do you think Russia banned pot and queers?
They both cause male Weakness.
Lots of dead queers and dopers went missing in jungles. Some were never
found. Maybe one was your brother.
news:dleFK.137290$%i2.1...@fx48.iad:
opportunity.
The patriots who founded this country didn't see it your way. The
majority of US citizens saw it my way until the poison of the left wing
communists contaminated the USA in the 1960s. Pot and liberalism are the
worst things that ever happened to this country. It weakened it and it
was deliberate.
Why do you think Russia banned pot and queers?
They both cause male Weakness.
Lots of dead queers and dopers went missing in jungles. Some were never
found. Maybe one was your brother.
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