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DEI efforts in US Armed Forces ineffective, run ‘opposite of the military ethos’: Study
DEI efforts in US Armed Forces ineffective, run ‘opposite of the military ethos’: study
Diversity, Equity and Inclusion efforts in the United States military are ineffective, a new Arizona State University study suggests.
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(The Center Square) – Diversity, Equity and Inclusion efforts in the United States military are ineffective, a new Arizona State University study suggests.
The study done by the university’s Center for American Institutions argued that there is an emphasis on training new soldiers about social issues like “unconscious bias” and “intersectionality” in a way the center says runs contrary to typical American ideals.
The study examined DEI plans in different sectors of the military, including DEI office staffing and education at academies like West Point.
“The massive DEI bureaucracy, its training and its pseudo-scientific assessments are at best distractions that absorb valuable time and resources,” the executive summary states. “At worst they communicate the opposite of the military ethos: e.g. that individual demographic differences come before team and mission.”
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Donald Critchlow, the director of the center, wrote in the studies introduction that it was focused on looking at the influence of Critical Race Theory in the United States Armed Forces training.
“This year long study documents just how pervasive these training programs are in our Armed Forces and Service Academies and that DEI extends well beyond just formal training programs in the military and service academies.”
“The Founders of our nation understood and feared a politicized military. History had shown them that a politicized army easily became the tool of tyranny. The Armed Forces of the United States has proudly upheld this long tradition of separating mission from politics,” he continued.
In terms of recommendations, the study suggests that DEI office’s be completely scrapped, but said it may be politically unlikely for the time being.
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The study comes as some branches of the military continue to struggle with recruiting new service members.
Commentary:
Certainly, these negative findings were as easy to predict as the disastrous consequences if defund the police was. It’s scary to think that over a few short years DEI in the military was become a “pervasive” ideology as this study stated. All of the ideologies that use “intersectional” verbiage are toxic which fosters and festers poisonous thinking that yields discord, division and resentment among other things. Luckily the people behind this study were courageous enough to criticize and dispel it because the ideologues use threats and cancellation to gain compliance so many are scared to counter the ideology and narrative.
Recovery from this propaganda campaign is going to be difficult. Just from a level of senior-officer leadership....you’d have to first probably cut over 10k ranking officers because they can’t perform at the level required.
My neighbor just retired after 25 years amd said he despised the "New Woke, PC Military sucks. One of the main problems which affects other fields and vocations is that activists have entered these areas. They're more activist than professional - the activism and ideology comes before the work ethic whether it is the legal, political, corporate, etc sector. They need to root out these activists who are destroying our institutions from the inside out as they are causing irreparable harm and by extension destroying major cultural institutions like the military, universities, medicine, etc People have been sounding the alarm for years which has fallen on deaf ears
In essence my neighbor said this is not the military he joined in strength, cohesiveness, ethos and structure.
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