Oops, somebody just said the quiet part out loud. The retired commander of one of our nuclear submarines has written for RealClearDefense that DEI efforts in our Navy have been counterproductive in the extreme. He gives examples.
DEI programs have reduced the sense of camaraderie and cohesion the service needs to protect us. They have wasted time, money, and energies that should have been devoted to war-fighting readiness. They have made worse the very issues they’ve intended to solve. And he implies they have made recruitment more difficult.
It is highly likely he is correct in these assertions. Getting woke in the military doesn’t result in going broke, but it leads to an ineffectiveness our nation can ill-afford.
