![]() The examples are compounding daily a professor at the U.S. In the last several years, one side of the culture war has been actively injecting its politics into our military. Over my 31 years of service, I never witnessed a significant racial or gender controversy in any unit with which I was associated. Our country has spent decades successfully creating a cohesive military from a diverse population. ![]() Nothing but damage can possibly flow from this. If that weren’t enough, they even cast doubt on the worthiness of the country the military is sworn to defend. They also undermine the military’s meritocracy by fomenting distrust and doubt about fellow servicemembers’ competence reflected through promotions and advancements. ![]() They are both divisive, destructive, and not based on sound social science. In this respect, a professor teaching CRT to cadets at a military academy can be likened to a neo-Nazi teaching white supremacy. By sowing the seeds of distrust, grievance, and discord, they all work to divide. When it comes to group trust, unity, and cohesion, today’s radical political theories-critical race theory (CRT), social justice, antiracism, white-privilege, the “1619 Project,” and the like-are no different than the radical theories of yesterday: Marxism, Communism, and white supremacy. Today’s divisive political theories easily meet this criterion. Anything undermining those elements should be identified and eliminated with all haste. Anyone who has worn a uniform for any length of time understands that trust, unity, and cohesion are essential ingredients to a winning team-especially in the military. Our nation’s military has one core mission-to win the nation’s wars. Yet, even amid these vast disagreements, one hopes we can still agree on one thing: Politics, and the larger culture war, should not be imposed on our military. The gulf between the two sides is only growing. While one side lives in a fundamentally flawed and systemically racist country pitting oppressors against the oppressed, the other side sees an exceptional country, guided by the wisdom of the founders, where individual responsibility and hard work still determine success.
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