In 2020, the Air Force conducted a classified war game which showed Communist China launching a biological attack and then invading Taiwan.
“At that point the trend in our war games was not just that we were losing, but we were losing faster,” Air Force Lt. Gen. S. Clinton Hinote stated.
With abysmal readiness rates that have an average of only 7 out of 10 planes operational, and down to 50% for the F-22 stealth fighter, 50% for the CV-22 Osprey and 40% for the B-1 Lancer, the Air Force isn’t even trying to win a possible war, but it’s fighting one for pronouns.
Gina Ortiz Jones, a two-time losing congressional candidate who wasted millions before being appointed by Biden as Air Force Undersecretary, declared that adding pronouns to the emails of air force personnel will make them “a more inclusive force”.
”An inclusive force is a mission-ready force,” she contended, all evidence to the contrary.
This proposal was cheered by Lt. Col. Bree (Bryan) Fram, LIT Transgender Policy Team co-lead. He describes himself as a “Rocket Scientist, Author, Advocate, Nerd”. Warrior does not make the list. But he was in attendance when Biden signed the Disrespect for Marriage Act, abolishing religious freedom and marriage.
“The use of correct pronouns is an easy way to show care and respect,” Mr. Fram insisted.
It’s a short hop from pronouns being voluntary to becoming mandatory.
Pacific Air Forces went further by warning its personnel not to use “he/she” pronouns. The Air Force Academy, always in the vanguard of wokeness, told cadets to stop referencing “mom and dad”, and to ask people for their gender identity. This was described as a “warfighting imperative”.
The Navy, like the Army, has jettisoned the use of ‘ma’am’ or ‘sir’ for drill instructors.
Earlier this year, the Navy released a video teaching personnel to use proper gender pronouns. An editorial at the Naval Institute complained about the use of such terms as “manpower, manning, man overboard, man the rails, sideboy, man hours”.
The authors even urged replacing “man overboard” with “shipmate overboard.”
Now when a man falls overboard, there will have to be a debate about gendered language and what he identifies with before he can be rescued. And by then he’ll probably have drowned.
The Navy’s Special Ops creed changed its wording from “elite brotherhood of sailors” to “elite group of maritime warriors”. SEALs no longer mention “brave men who have fought and died building the proud tradition and feared reputation that I am bound to uphold.”
Nor do they say, “I am that man.”
There are no female operators because none have met the standards. But it’s only a matter of time until those standards are lowered.
Chris Beck, the retired Navy SEAL who became the poster boy for the transgender movement when he spent a decade claiming to be a woman, has returned to his senses, and calls it the “worst mistake of my life.”
Beck describes getting a prescription for hormones after a brief consultation at the VA.
“I got propagandized. I got used badly by a lot of people who had knowledge way beyond me,” he admitted. “They knew what they were doing. I didn’t.”
The VA, whose delays are still killing veterans, offers a special field for gender identity and a list of pronouns for “nonbinaries” that include xe/xem. Earlier this year, House Democrats blocked an effort to expose VA delays in veteran care. Some VA facilities still have delays that drag on for months, but pronouns remain a leading priority. Patient care takes a back seat to wokeness.
As it does across the military in the Obama and Biden eras.
Military policy demands that personnel “should be sensitive to the use of pronouns when addressing others.” There is no expectation that the men who wake up one morning and decide that they’re women should stop putting their fetishes and neuroses ahead of the mission.
The United States is following in the footsteps of the Canadian Armed Forces which mandates the use of gender neutral pronouns and the British Ministry of Defence which orders officials to state their gender pronouns.
“Pronouns aren’t just used inside the 2SLGBTQI+ communities but are used by everyone,” Canada’s Department of National Defence states.
The only people who use pronouns are ordered to use them by their employer or institution. With control of the military, the Trudeau regime and other woke governments have a sizable class of personnel that, to their endless delight, they can order to do anything they want.
Western nations can’t think of any better use for their militaries than performative dogma.
NATO has a 38-page manual on “gendered language” which emphasizes that it is “important to distinguish between grammatical gender and gender as a social construct.” What would have been an obscure dilettante academic’s thesis in the 80s are now military marching orders.
During the Cold War, NATO focused on tactics and strategy while the Russians wrote papers on Marxism-Leninism. Now NATO is stuffed with personnel writing papers on cultural Marxism.
We no longer have a serious military leadership and so we’re not ready for a serious war.
But that’s because our ideologically captured institutions have no interest in fighting one. If China invades Taiwan, South Korea or Hawaii, they’ll issue a strong statement, supply some weapons to the remaining defenders and go back to emphasizing pronoun discipline.
These are the preoccupations of ideologically captured institutions which are not interested in winning military conflicts, only ideological ones.
As Clausewitz suggested, war is politics by other means. Inversely, politics is also war by other means. The Left is fighting a political civil war and has little interest in foreign wars. Leftist control over any institution transforms it into another battalion in its culture war against us.
While China and other enemy nations expand outward, America is stuck in a civil war. That’s why we continue to lose to China in our war games. Instead of being prepared for a war, our woke military brass, men like Secretary of Defense Austin, Gen. Milley, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, Gen. Charles Q. Brown, Air Force Chief of Staff, Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Mike Gilday, and others have made it abundantly clear that their priority is enforcing wokeness.
They have no plan to fight or win a war against any substantial enemy. They’re here to enforce the identity politics mandates on the military in between schmoozing at D.C. cocktail parties.
Ask them how to beat China and they don’t have an answer, but just ask them their pronouns, ask them about green energy, systemic racism and abortion and they’ll talk your ears off.
The woke military brass with its pronouns and allegiance to the ideals of the same enemy they were tasked with fighting during the Cold War is a national security threat to our nation.
I train project managers for a living and years ago in the uk got into trouble for calling them “he” after someone from a local government (surprise) complained. Since then I have trained myself to use “they”
Nowadays when I’m training, the majority who refer to a project manager as “he” are women.
No doubt men are to blame for that.
If forced to declare my pronouns I choose Sir/Lord
Internalized misoginy, I’m sure. And probably transphobia.
But that’s how the 0.001% take over.
Thanks Daniel! Difficulties in communication during wartime are one of the things I see often when reading history.
My preferred pronouns are “f” and “you”
There was a time, for many very good reasons, I encouraged my children to spend some time in the military. To their credit, they chose not to. These days I would never suggest any young American to join any of the five services. The military leadership we have today would willingly and callously throw all those young people away like so much baggage. Today’s leadership are not unlike the French generals during WWI. Not only did they promote the slaughter of millions they had no idea how to fight a war. A million here…a million there…………….Just remember, Gen. Mark Milly was outsmarted my men who have sex with goats. What does that tell you?
Unfortunately that’s what we hear from a lot of military families. It tragically breaks a vital link in a chain.
Milley wasn’t outsmarted by the Taliban. He just cared a whole lot more about the approval of his bosses in D.C. and what it would mean for his career than about the men on the ground.
Not unusual for bad generals.
i was thinking earlier about how careerists go along with this stuff because they are afraid of losing their careers.
Ih they DO have careers, alright. Careers in appeasing woke overlords, playing mindless robot in exchange for not quite enough money and a charade of significance. All these folk have to do is wake up (note I did NOT say “go woke”) and find or create a real career.
“Today’s leadership are not unlike the French generals during WWI. Not only did they promote the slaughter of millions they had no idea how to fight a war. ”
This is a common meme I see but as a student of WWI it needs to die and die badly. The French leadership of WWI were not perfect, but they won. Not only did they win, they largely helped define modern warfare as we know it. Western Europe was saved from collapse into an authoritarian nightmare like 1940 by the first large-scale motorized redeployment in history in 1914, overseen by the commander of the Paris Garrison, General Gallieni. The French were also the first to use modern grenades on a wide scale and to devise a modern, anti-shrapnel helmet, and generally fought better than both their allies and enemies. Which is a major reason why Foch became Western Allied Commander-in-Chief in 1918.
I would not insult even the less competent French officers by comparing them to the woke fascists. The only ones I can really think of as suitable would be Enver Pasha and Conrad von Hoetzendorff, both staggering fools, genocidal lunatics, and utterly incompetent.
My pronouns are “Oy” and “Vey.” That having been said, this is just sick. The military has one over-arching purpose – to deter war and, if deterrence fails, to beat the crap out of the enemy. This insanity is not constructive and is, in fact, destructive of both. Karl Marx was a fan of Goethe.. One of his favorite lines was Mephistopheles’ statement that all that exists should be destroyed. Marx incorporated this in his instruction to his followers to “ruthlessly criticize all that exists.” These people want to destroy the military, the U.S., and Western Civilization. And they’re on the road to accomplishing their mission. It’s time, actually well past the time, for people to get hip to what they’re doing.
The Left colonizes every institution to seize power. The trouble is that only dumb or corrupt generals should be letting them use the military as a puppet for their political agendas.
Could you please find other entertainment?
There are serious considerations at play.
Look at Little Mickie isn’t one of them.
It may be simply the duck identification methodology.
If it looks like intentional sabotage, if it waddles like intentional sabotage,,….
I don’t how to stop the murder of my country. I want it to outlive me by multiple centuries. It seems we are expiring in tragic tandem.
Put the shovel down ……… you’re plenty deep enough –
The military had been tainted by Obama. That remained the case under Trump as the misconduct of Esper, Milley and others showed in reaction to the BLM insurrection in D.C.
But if you think the pronoun gang have a plan to take on China, go look at their National Defense Strategy and try not to laugh.
You are 100% on target, Sir. Oops. Are we allowed to still use the word, :Target?”
Perhaps, “Object afar” would be better?
we can’t be sure what it identifies as
How many of these lgbgtqwert people actually care about the sanctity of marriage?
Answer nil, they ONLY want to marry because religious people believe that marriage is between man and woman.
Keep taking the democrats money.
Good point Mo, I hadn’t thought of that.
except for the plain and unassailable FACT that when two XY chromosome individuals stand and claim to be marrying each other, they are lying. Marriage as instituted/created is not two random individuals taking up housekeeping together and performing certain sexual acts together which God has declared to be an abomination. Cal me a bigot, exclusionist, fantasy maker, whatever. fine. They can do whatever they want, but what I have a REAL problem with is when such folks come to me and DEMAND I agree with their fantsy, call God a liar, and pretend they ARE actually “marrying” when God says they are not. Don’t demand I stand with then in calling God a liar. They can do whatever they want but when they try and force ME to do what I know I cannot, the game ends right there. Jack Phillips did the right thing and got persecuted for it. I highly regard him for refusing to back down, even though that cost him dearly.
Thanks, Daniel, I do believe you have provided the real reason for Putin to so strongly oppose the expansion of NATO to his borders. Just as “they” demanded we keep “social” distancing in the false promise it would prevent the dread infection if the WooFlew ti spread, Putin wants there to be an effective buffer zone between HIS native country, the one for which e has been given responsibility, and NATO nations knowing all too clearly that the corrupt, perverted, wokeism has infected NATO and will be carried, as a deadly virus, to any who come within range of them.
I believe his allowing the Crimea and Donbass regions to reunite with their former Mother country is the right move…. the separation decades back was unwanted then and ran counter to history. Keeping them close and NATO at a safer distance is good management.
Putin wants what Russia has always wanted, which is territorial expansion. I doubt he cares about NATO pronouns beyond evidence that it’s weakening his enemies.
We’ve embraced assorted trendy progressive nonsense, but most of the world still plays by the same old rules.
Just a reminder soy boy but what Wars was President Trump involved in, which Wars did he start, which countries did he invade, which War did he end, which ones?….I,ll wait…
Marriage was destroyed. You see, dipshit, words have meaning. So now that marriage is redefined, what is it? And tomorrow can I marry my toaster? A dog?
Oh, and I did 22+ years and continue with a role in my second career. The analysis of the writer is on point.
But, since you attacked his credibility, how long and where did you serve?
When I was a college student in the late 80s, feminists and the university administration tried to get everyone to say “first year student” instead of “freshman,” and I was incensed. “Freshman ” was a venerable academic term. Women had gone to college for more than a century. We knew we were women, and we knew what a “freshman” was! It made no sense to me. Why would we not want the venerable term expanded to include us- which it had been decades ago? Why make everyone say something new and dull? Many schools now use that term exclusively (though most people even today still say “freshman”) and now I know that changing words is the point. It negates the past, makes language dull and flat, and makes everyone pretend there’s a good reason for it. Words naturally change when people want them to – either terms are replaced by new ones, or the meaning of a term expands. Many gendered words in English refer to both groups of men and groups of both sexes. We do not have to explicitly say “woman” or “women” to be included, that’s absolute nonsense all women should find insulting. The left does both on purpose, so that people with different viewpoints use the same words, or those who aren’t in the left have to use their words. It’s a highly effective tactic.
I meant to say that when a leftist changes a word, it causes confusion (on purpose) because people are either not sure which definition other people use, worry about using the “correct” definition, or both. The natural concern a thoughtful person has about not offending others by a careless or accidental word is weaponized into being worried about every normal interaction somehow offending other people (“Did you say ‘Congratulations CHAIRMAN? I’m not a man!!’ “Did you just say ‘man overboard?’ That’s a trans-woman!’ etc.)
The freakshow lunatic fringe needs you to use their approved characterizations and pronouns instead of “man overboard”. Before a rescue can take place the proper forms must be filled out and a permit required and a thorough investigation must be done to determine exactly what the entity that fell overboard is. Something like “non binary/ polyamorous trans/ alternating/queer/minor attracted person/ they/her /him/ it/xxx/ overboard” so as not to misgender the entity. If it drowns in the meantime, well, that’s the way the cookie/baked object/ morsel/ etc. crumbles. Another investigation must also be performed as to whether the “alleged misadventure intervention group” (formerly “rescue squad”) is diverse enough to participate in this “community population level protection activity” .
I hope FP’s Web servers and email platform are located somewhere else, this kind of critical-thinking is not going to be allowed for long. Ironically, Switzerland might be a safe choice.
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