The U.S. Military is Going Woke Thanks to 'Elite' Education | Opinion
Published Jul 29, 2022 at 6:00 AM EDT
By Frank Wuco
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I enlisted 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.
https://www.newsweek.com/us-military-going-woke-thanks-elite-education-opinion-1728845
