Ex-Officer: Army I Joined in Obama's 1st Term Was Nothing Like Army I Left at End of His 2nd Term

[txradioguy]

A former U.S. Army officer believes social engineering undertaken during the Obama administration undermined the nation’s military readiness — and that the American public deserves to know.

“The Army that I joined during Barack Obama’s first term was nothing like the Army that I left at the end of his second,” Afghanistan War veteran James Hasson told Fox News host Tucker Carlson on Monday.

“Social justice warriors imposed a progressive agenda on the military with no regard for the harm they caused to military readiness or national security,” the former Army captain added. “We’re still paying the price and the American people deserve to know.”

Hasson has authored a new book, “Stand Down: How Social Justice Warriors Are Sabotaging America’s Military,” detailing his concerns.

During his interview with Carlson, Hasson paraphrased former Secretary of Defense James Mattis, who argued the social justice demands impose harms that will only become evident to our political class after military failure.

He pointed to Obama’s undersecretary of defense Brad Carson’s statements as emblematic of that administration’s attitude toward the military. The top official said his goal was to make the Department of Defense “the nation’s most progressive employer.”

The author cited examples of how that priority was implemented, including at the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland.

“I think most Americans would be appalled to hear that at the Naval Academy, one of our premier institutions, there are safe space signs outside instructors’ doors, military and civilian, saying that the instructors have taken a sensitivity course called ‘Trans 101’ that is taught by contractors for Google,” Hasson told Carson.

“The job of the military isn’t to be more woke than Apple or Google, it’s to defend us all by preparing to fight and win the nation’s wars,” the veteran argued.

In his book, Hasson recounts that at the Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, Colorado, officers apologized for “microaggressions” against cadets.

He also chronicles how an Army “gender integration study” urged an end to “hyper-masculinity” in combat-arms units.

Hasson told Carlson that the Obama administration lowered the standards in military schools in order to allow more female soldiers to be eligible.

https://www.westernjournal.com/ex-officer-army-joined-obamas-1st-term-nothing-like-army-left-end-2nd-term/

[Cyber Liberty]

I just saw this on Bookface, and my search turned up this thread.  What do you think, @txradioguy?

[240B]

Yep. I saw this too. The difference between me and the author is that I have learned to accept the things I cannot change. I don't get all worked up about it. My last few years in, the politicians were talking about making the U.S. Military an Army of American Ambassadors, winning hearts and minds worldwide. This kind of thinking is typical of non-military Liberal politicians. They constantly confuse and conflate the American Military with the Peace Corps. Many of them really actually do not understand the difference.

[txradioguy]

I just saw this on Bookface, and my search turned up this thread.  What do you think, @txradioguy?

He's spot on.  I've had the advantage/disadvantage of seeing this change happen more long term starting with the Clinton administration.

Its insidious and it's purposely undermining our ability to fight and win wars.  Billy Jeff started it with DACOWITS and allowing females in fighter planes and on carries and moving them more forward in combat areas tis ground forces.

As another middle finger from the man who "loathed" the military he moved the bulk of the reserve combat power from the reserves (federally controlled) to the National Guard (state controlled) and made the reserves nothing but sustainment.  Oh yeah and he moved us down to 10 combat divisions from a high of 17 when I first joined.

Obama just picked up where Clinton left off and sprinted ahead and well you can see the damage that has been done.  He wanted to use us as a global force for fighting global warming and all kinds of social justice things we aren't built to do.  He gutted the force...hollowed out our budgets and then played footsie with all of our enemies and screwing our allies and partner nations that we'd help liberate.

Unless there are some drastic changes and we have leaders willing to absorb the slings and arrows of the "woke" left and return the military to the fighting force we were during Desert Shield/Storm and the Cold War...Russia and China are gonna have their way with their respective spheres of influence and we won't be able to stop them.

(announcer) "There's a bear in the woods..."

[Fishrrman]

What our military will look like after the left is done with it:


Addendum:
Famous line from the 1960 film "The Time Machine":
"Books?  Yes... we have books."

"Soldiers?  Yes... we have soldiers...."

[mountaineer]

Some hope?

Navy quietly ends climate change task force, reversing Obama initiative
By: J.D. Simkins  
 August 26

When he took office as secretary of defense, retired Marine Gen. Jim Mattis urged the armed forces to battle the effects of global climate change.

The order by Mattis was backed by a slew of scientific studies — including those commissioned by the Pentagon — and concerns expressed by a growing number of past and present military leaders.

“Climate change is impacting stability in areas of the world where our troops are operating today,” Mattis indicated in written testimony to the Senate Armed Services Committee in 2017.  ...

But the Navy quietly shut down its specialized U.S. Navy Task Force Climate Change in March, reversing an Obama-era initiative designed to prepare naval leadership for global shifts in sea levels, melting ice sheets and ocean temperatures. ... More at Navy Times

[txradioguy]

Some hope?

It's a good start.  Those task forces take time money and personnel away from their actual jobs and deny the services money that could be used elsewhere for actual beneficial purposes.