Kindle Notes & Highlights
Once in the Beltway, armed with their newfound academic appreciation for politically correct notions, lifelong officers became willing executers for politicians. In fact, it was the quickest way to get promoted. Their value was not in their devotion to the Constitution or the warrior class, but in their willingness to take orders from a superstar president.
A former West Point professor recently told me, “Within two weeks of 9/11, some civilian professors were starting with the ‘we deserved this’ narrative. Talking about how this was payback for the crusades.” Stunning.
Toward the end of his time at West Point, which corresponded with Joe Biden entering office, he endured lecture hall after lecture hall, mandatory brief after mandatory brief, about “white rage,” “transgenderism,” diversity/CRT training (one where only black cadets were allowed to talk), and even outright hostility to Donald Trump, while he was president—the commander in chief.
On any given day they are required to have 80 percent of their airpower fully mission capable and ready to fly.
Holistic, in case you didn’t know, is Latin for bullshit.
With the Pentagon now run by, and fully staffed by, so-called “leaders” like CQ Brown, we can assume that 17 percent of all black officers in the Air Force are promoted simply because of how they look—and not because of how they lead.
And even if those leaders are fantastic, the perception of their troops will be that they didn’t earn that slot—creating a toxic environment.
He explained that “during a DEI briefing,” airmen got a lecture on how they should not “refer to our parents as ‘mom and dad’ because it was ‘divisive language because everyone might not have a mom and a dad.’”
The majority of cadets do not like this training and see it as divisive and bad for morale. But the academy continues to elevate the voices of cadets who agree with the training and want to spread leftist ideology further.
But we’re far from it. West Point recently adopted a new undergraduate field of study for cadets. Imagine this: the military academy responsible for some of the greatest warrior generals in the modern era now boasts a . . . Diversity & Inclusion Studies Minor (DISM). You know China is up at night worrying about this coming at them.
Even with those questions—and even with all the uncertainty—I hope you join the ranks of American fighting men. I encourage you to serve, asking yourself this simple question: If not me, then who? If not Gunner, Jackson, Boone, Luke, or Rex Hegseth—who is going to protect America? Are you going to rely on other men, or on women, who have other worldviews to fill the ranks? Just because our military is far from perfect, can we afford to lose her? My answer is no.
Elite units usually skip most of—excuse my language but it’s true—the bullshit.
I urge you in this consideration to show courage. You are men. Act like it. But if you choose not to serve in uniform, that is your choice. Then my charge for you is to fight and lead at home—because our war is on all fronts.
