In Their Own Words: "What is Critical Race Theory?”
By Phillip J. Keuhlen
August 05, 2023
Members of the 17th Training Wing gather in the Louis F. Garland Department of Defense Fire Academy high bay, for the first Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Day event, Goodfellow Air Force Base, Texas, Oct. 28, 2022. DEI Day brought people from a variety of backgrounds, ethnicities, genders, and religions together and created an environment where all can feel equal. (U.S. Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class Sarah Williams)
Introduction
In over two decades of military leadership and a further two decades in corporate leadership I learned the importance of reading and believing what my potential adversaries said about their aims and planned methods. During the Cold War we read Admiral Gorshkov's "Red Star Rising at Sea" and "The Sea Power of the State" to understand what we might face at sea. Today similar reading focuses on the China Aerospace Studies Institute’s series, In Their Own Words: Foreign Military Thought, and its translation of China’s "Science of Military Strategy (2013),” as one hopes today's U.S. military leadership does.
Yet, even though Progressives seceded philosophically from America’s founding values a century ago and have conducted lawfare to subvert the Constitution designed to protect those values for over a century
today’s U.S. military leadership collectively demonstrates a profound ignorance of a current Progressive dogma mainstay, Critical Race Theory (CRT). They display baffling support for its indoctrination in the U.S. armed forces in Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) programs.
The underpinning of the U.S. Navy DEI program is its Task Force One Navy Final Report, a deeply flawed effort.[ii] It was launched from twin assumptions that the Navy suffers from systemic racism and that diversity is a benefit to the Navy’s military mission. Those assumptions are not supported by evidence, and the use of data and outside scholarship in support of the report’s findings and recommendations is flawed by both logical fallacies, and by data that is misapplied or misrepresented to support its distorted narrative. Themes that are central to Critical Race Theory and its allied movements that are wholly absent from its precursor document[iii] 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.
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