Task Force One Navy Final Report: "The Emperor's New Clothes" Redux
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By Phillip Keuhlen
December 06, 2021
Task Force One Navy Final Report:
Executive Summary
The Task Force One Navy Final Report was launched from the twin assumptions that the Navy suffers from systemic racism and that diversity benefits the Navy's military mission. Those assumptions are not supported by evidence. The use of data in support of the report's findings and recommendations is flawed by logical fallacies and by misapplied or misrepresented data to support its distorted narrative. Themes that are central to Critical Race Theory and its allied movements find an active voice in the TF1N Charter and Final Report, confirming a philosophy and a political agenda on the part of those who wrote the Task Force One Navy Charter and steered the enterprise. The fundamental question posed by the issuance of this report is whether the Navy’s leadership is placing the Navy’s readiness to defend the Nation at risk (and unwittingly subverting the Nation’s Constitution and laws) by jettisoning its colorblind, meritocratic culture and entering a significant transformation without a rigorous, fact-based, logical justification.
Introduction
In the wake of racially motivated civilian riots in the spring and early summer of 2020, the U.S. Navy’s Chief of Naval Operations stood up Task Force One Navy (TF1N) on July 1, 2020.
After a six month effort, the final 142 page report was submitted on January 28, 2021.[ii] The initial charter proceeded from the key assumption that the Navy, as an institution, is systemically racist.[iii] The TF1N Final Report Executive Summary identified a second key assumption guiding TF1N, stating, "Mission readiness is stronger when diverse strengths are used, and differing perspectives are applied."[iv] In the context of what TF1N analyzed and reported on, one can only understand 'diverse strengths' and 'differing perspectives as meaning demographic diversity arising in race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, and biological gender.
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