For the first time the Heritage Foundation’s index of American military strength has ranked us as ‘weak’. The index warns that the Army “remains ‘weak’ in capacity with only 62 percent of the force it should have.” And even the Army has admitted that it has missed its recruiting target by 10,000 personnel which is expected to climb to over 20,000 by the end of the next fiscal year.
Frontpage Magazine – Daniel Greenfield As Heritage and the Wall Street Journal note, “From 2005 to 2020, the U.S. fleet grew to 296 warships from 291, while China’s navy grew to 360 from 216.” The Navy however is focused on inclusion and diversity. The situation at the Air Force is much worse with the Heritage report warning that “the munitions stockpile” would probably “not support a peer-level fight that lasted more than a few weeks”. But the Air Force is also focused on diversity and inclusion.
The Navy is rated as very weak in capacity and weak in readiness. The Air Force ranks as very weak due to “problems with pilot production and retention, an extraordinarily small amount of time in the cockpit for pilots, and a fleet of aircraft that continues to age”. The Heritage index warns that “there is little doubt that it would struggle in war with a peer competitor”.
The Space Force is described as weak because “there is little evidence that the USSF has improved its readiness to provide nearly real-time support to operational and tactical levels of force operations or that it is ready in any way to execute defensive and offensive counterspace operations.”
US Army Chief Major General Malcolm Frost has slammed millennial recruits in the U.S. Army, claiming they are “too weak” to be put on the battlefield.
According to Frost, the Army now is all about coddling soldiers, placating feminists, sucking up to the LGBT lobby and being as politically correct as possible. “The U.S. Army will drop its hand grenade competency requirement for graduation from basic training because getting recruits to pass it is taking ‘too much time’ and they’re just not strong enough.”
Usdefensewatch.com reports: “What we have found is it is taking far, far too much time. It’s taking three to four times as much time … just to qualify folks on the hand grenade course than we had designated so what is happening is it is taking away from other aspects of training.”
So, in a nutshell, Army recruits now largely consist of wussified young men who throw like girls and a ton of female recruits, who strangely, throw like girls. Guess what. Our enemies…they can throw grenades. Because our enemies are men who aren’t soy boys.
Frost pointed out some other big changes at Basic. “What leaders have observed is that, in general, they believe that there’s too much of a sense of entitlement, questioning of lawful orders, not listening to instruction. Too much of a buddy mentality with NCOs and officers,”Frost said.
Recruits questioning lawful orders? Not listening to instruction? In the old days the recruit would be run over by Smokey the Bear driving the Kiwi Express. What was left of him would be digging a ten foot hole to bury a cigarette after he ran two miles around the barracks with a M-60 over his head.
But, the Army doesn’t want to hurt anyone’s feelings.
Only the Marine Corps is rated as strong. Even our nuclear capabilities are slipping with “Russia and China are aggressively expanding the types and quantities of nuclear weapons in their inventories. Nearly all components of the nuclear enterprise are at a tipping point with respect to replacement or modernization and have no margin left for delays in schedule.”
It’s no coincidence that the ‘wokest’ service branches also show up as the weakest. The takeaway from the Heritage report that “the current U.S. military force is at significant risk of not being able to meet the demands of a single major regional conflict while also attending to various presence and engagement activities” should be a grave warning and a wake up call.
Anyone worried about these numbers will find scant comfort in Biden’s new National Security Strategy released earlier in October. The NSS is supposed to define an administration’s vision. And Biden’s NSS is depressingly faithful to the woke obsessions that have made us so weak.
Former CIA Director and Secretary of State under Donald Trump, Mike Pompeo, says he has a new mission — to battle what he terms is “a woke military which has become a weak military.”
“I can assure you that there’s no Russian general, no Iranian leader, no Chinese Communist Party admiral, who’s spending one second thinking about gender or woke ideology or climate change,” Pompeo argues. “They’re thinking about how to kill Americans and the fight is on. We have to walk away from this radical left ideology. We cannot let it penetrate our military.”
The National Security Strategy asserts that “we have broken down the dividing line between foreign policy and domestic policy”. America’s strength lay in a dividing line between foreign and domestic policy. Weak, troubled and totalitarian nations conflate the two. As does Biden.
That dividing line meant that America could aggressively confront foreign enemies abroad while maintaining civil liberties at home. The Biden administration, like its Obama predecessors, has insisted on conflating domestic and international political conflicts, defining the domestic opposition as a “threat to democracy” on the same spectrum as foreign autocratic regimes.
Without the dividing line, the Biden administration is free to insist that the welfare state, its corrupt green subsidies and every single leftist agenda item are actually part of our national security strategy. The NSS even defines Biden’s open borders as “investing in our people”.
Army combat veteran Cory Mills criticizes President Biden for focusing on gender equity and critical race theory, arguing it makes the U.S. military look weaker to the world.
‘Wokeness’ is at the heart of the NSS with the assertion that “we are building on the work of generations of activists to advance equity and root out systemic disparities in our laws, policies, and institutions. Indeed, pluralism, inclusion, and diversity are a source of national strength in a rapidly changing world.” This same rhetoric about DEI has been rolled into military doctrine so that unprecedented military weakness appears like a strength because it’s a diverse weakness.
Racial and identity politics quotas are also national security. Or as the NSS asserts, “Prioritizing diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility to ensure national security institutions reflect the American public they represent.”
Tellingly, “modernizing and strengthening our military” comes at the very end of the second subsection behind agenda items like Biden’s corrupt special interest giveaways, and, most damningly, “strengthening our democracy”. Only a totalitarian banana republic would include attacks on domestic opponents in its national security strategy. And that, sadly, is what we have.
“As Americans, we must all agree that the people’s verdict, as expressed in elections, must be respected and protected,” the NSS pointedly jabs, before reciting talking points about federal takeovers of elections and the need for “critical reforms continue to be needed to strengthen our system of governance.” Defining political opponents as a national security threat and the lack of legislation favoring its faction’s electioneering as a national security problem is coup talk.
And the military? Modernizing the military gets a meager 5 paragraphs in a 48 page national security strategy.
Biden’s National Security Strategy for strengthening and modernizing the military is to impose political tests, purge political opponents and appease foreign enemies. It’s no wonder that Putin and Xi look at this administration and begin making moves on Ukraine or Taiwan.
The NSS isn’t the document of a world power, but of a declining nation squabbling with itself, but incapable and unwilling to assert any kind of meaningful presence at home or abroad. The National Security Strategy is fixated on the endless bureaucratic lists of global internationalism. It’s European in its view of the United States as benefiting most from a globalist system “governed by the UN charter” rather than taking independent action for its own interests.
The NSS names China and Russia as threats, but remains too fixated on fighting conservatives at home to take foreign threats seriously. And so the NSS Global Priorities section concludes with warnings that the real threat comes from “a range of domestic violent extremists, including those motivated by racial or ethnic prejudice, as well as antigovernment or anti-authority sentiment”. It urges “Congress to advance commonsense gun laws and policies” and address “the crisis of disinformation and misinformation”. Which is to say, speech it doesn’t like.
Having eliminated the “dividing line between foreign policy and domestic policy”, the Biden administration now treats Americans like foreign enemies and makes domestic woke obsessions, like global warming and equity, into the pivot of our foreign policy. The military is there to be made “diverse” and inclusive” while being completely unready to fight and win.
It’s been a long time since our military has been this weak. And it’s never been this woke.
TDave Rubin of The Rubin Report gives his reaction to the viral Russian Army ad vs US Army ad. The Russian Army ad is downright menacing. The US army ad instead focuses on LGBT issues and equality and is animated, as if it was made for little children.
Jack Rider says
All by design! The woke message, the DEI agenda, the climate agenda, obsolete affirmative action, the open borders agenda, the gun grabbing agenda, the cut’em loose from prison agenda, BLM & Antifa violence, the collusion between government and the social media platforms to rupture free speech are all orchestrated by marxists in Beijing, funded by Soros inter alia and promoted by useful idiots in Hollywood, Madison Avenue and an incurious media. It is radical leftist intersectionality on the March. But we can defeat them on 11/8. Get out and vote against the DemoFascists and vote in constitutional conservatives.
Richard S says
What do you expect with an installed weak CIC?
Az gal says
Thoroughly depressing.
BLR says
you got no national pride you got no army willing to fight for it , you got no natural males to fill a mans boots from the bottom up to command rank you got a paper army ran by dreamers who’s battle experience comes from what amounts to these day’s we would have called a cracker jack box in our day … I wash my hands of millennial’s of the now mindset as so they washed their hands of the blood sweat and tears used to get them where they are today
Linda Rivera says
https://barenakedislam.com/2022/10/26/if-only-donald-trump-was-still-the-president-lament-european-leaders/
“If only Donald Trump was still the president,” lament European leaders
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has stressed that only Former US President Donald Trump could end the war in Ukraine.
Biden has practically enslaved and blackmailed European countries to continue fighting for Ukraine.
Russia and Europe’s ties have been shattered by Biden alone.
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China Biden-Obama’s puppet has placed America, Britain, Europe and other nations in Extreme Danger of a NUCLEAR HOLOCAUST.
Wise, ethical Orban is correct. We NEED President Trump now to end the war in Ukraine! We cannot wait!
If Republicans make huge gains in the coming elections, Republicans must insist/demand that Trump is given the vitally important mission of ending the war in Ukraine.
Linda Rivera says
https://barenakedislam.com/2022/10/19/thanks-to-biden-regime-u-s-military-now-rated-as-weak-unable-to-win-a-war-on-one-front-let-alone-two/
THANKS TO BIDEN REGIME, U.S. Military now rated as “weak,” unable to win a war on one front, let alone two.
Under President Trump in 2018, Congress passed a law mandating that the Navy reach a target of 355 ships “as soon as possible.” Instead, the service has cut ships faster than they’ve built them.
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The TREASONOUS Klaus Schwab “You’ll Own Nothing and Be Happy, George Soros, Bill Gates, Fauci — the Obama-Biden regime have MALICIOUSLY SABOTAGED America’s military defenses to ensure America will be easily CONQUERED by Communist China and other Dangerous, Barbaric Enemies.
Aaaa says
If Russian army commercial was so good and Russia is considerd more conservative and traditional why Russian army isn’t very impressive in Ukraine?