'Remaking the military will complete the Left's agenda of co-opting America’s elite institutions, which include academia, media, business, and the government.' -John Cauthen
seemingly does. The 2021 National Defense Authorization Act created a Department of Defense chief diversity officer position and military department diversity advisers. Noticeably absent is any mention of equity or the requirement to create DEI programs and offices.
Yet civilian and military leaders have embraced DEI. Why does our nation’s leadership obsess about DEI and insist on its integration across the military when personnel arguably lack the rudiments of professional military education conducive to understanding their oaths and the importance of healthy civil-military relations? Simply put: liberal political power.
The military is perhaps the remaining American institution insulated from a full leftist takeover. Remaking the military will complete the Left's agenda of co-opting America’s elite institutions, which include academia, media, business, and the government. As emeritus professor Mark Bauerlein recently
, “Marx himself would call DEI a classic case of ideology, a set of benign-seeming ideas that disguise the workings of the rulers, in this case empowered progressives.”drafted by U.S. Military Academy graduates addressed to West Point leadership. Among other assertions, the authors alleged systemic and endemic racism, called for racially segregated affinity spaces, and advocated political activism.
Thankfully, not all military service members are willing to bend to the Left’s demands. A group of cadets at the U.S. Air Force Academy, with faculty support, recently created a
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