Running out of cannon fodder

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nt Is Running Out of Cannon Fodder for Its Woke Military
Townhall Columnists  Kurt Schlichter
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The Establishment Is Running Out of Cannon Fodder for Its Woke Military
Kurt  SchlichterKurt Schlichter|Posted: Jul 04, 2022 12:01 AM
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The Establishment Is Running Out of Cannon Fodder for Its Woke Military
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Jump out of a perfectly good airplane, charge a machine gun nest, be stationed at Ft. Irwin – these are just three of the myriad miseries American patriots are willing to endure to defend our country. But today's military is asking too much of our young people, as evidenced by the crashing recruitment rates that threaten to deplete a military already running short of soldiers. Have our young people suddenly turned from heroes to zeros, ne'er-do-well heirs of the brave warriors who confronted the forces of tyrannical gun control at Lexington and Concord?

No. The kids are alright. The problems lie echelons above.

Here's a little leadership secret that's actually not a secret at all to competent commissioned and non-commissioned officers. There are no bad cohorts of soldiers, sailors, airmen, Marines, Coast Guardsmen and whatever the hell Space Force people are called. There are only bad leaders, and we have the worst military leadership in American history, starting right at the top with a commander-in-chief who is less like Ike than Beavis.

In fact – and this rips me up to say because I would not trade my about 27 years in the Army for anything – the reluctance to enlist of the traditional, normal Americans who are most likely to serve and who are the most desirable for service, is entirely rational. You do have an obligation to serve your country in some way, the military being the highest and best way for those who are able. But you do not have an obligation to do so if your life is going to be squandered by a leadership whose strategies are a disaster, whose priorities are not the defense of this country but some sort of bizarre pan-global progressive ideology, and who will use you as a guinea pig in freakish and morally bankrupt social experiments, all while failing to fulfill even the most basic obligations of the leaders to the led. Our military today is failing to meet its recruiting goals because it has failed to earn the trust of normal Americans who would otherwise be inclined to raise their hands.

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This is by design. The ultra woke-ization of the military is meant to drive out conservative, freedom loving, constitution respecting enlisted.

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Yes the purge of officers for ideological reasons began during the Obama years.
Trump was able to slow, but not stop it.
FJB has accelerated the process, stripping the officer corps of anyone who does bow to the leftist ideology
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they are now indoctrinating the enlisted ranks in wokeism CRT and the LGTB alphabet soup lunacy.
The result is that non of the services are able to maintain their enlistment quotas.
The military has devolved from a force to protect American to a good place to get  government funded sex changes.

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This is by design. The ultra woke-ization of the military is meant to drive out conservative, freedom loving, constitution respecting enlisted.

Hmmm I was under the assumption that since enlisted ranks are majority right wing (fact check me there) that democrats want to start wars and send political opponents in front of the cannons.
 Just look at the objectivly idiotic tactics in Vietnam. Reclaiming the same hill 10 friggin times. 

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It might get interesting on the world stage when our standing army is not the god fearing force it has traditionally been.
Leadership bowing to the temple of state just might be the industrial military complex we were warned about.
 DOJ, FBI and thenreast of the alphabet agencies have recently show a total lack of control and absolute partisanship. What happens when we unleash that crap on the world instead of the benevolence heretofore.

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Hmmm I was under the assumption that since enlisted ranks are majority right wing (fact check me there) that democrats want to start wars and send political opponents in front of the cannons.
 Just look at the objectivly idiotic tactics in Vietnam. Reclaiming the same hill 10 friggin times. 

When the commie dems finally push to far and force civil unrest, they need a woke military that will be willing to go door to door to collect guns and target patriot groups that stand up to tyranny. The national guard will be too fractured for them to count on. Too many reserve guard that won't go against their neighbors and communities. Plus Red states won't call up the guard for such a task.