“Rather than fighting culture wars at the Pentagon, our focus should turn to doing everything in our power to expand the population eligible and qualified for military service,” Wicker said. The Mississippi senator concluded by an extending call to collaborate with any lawmaker interested in solving the recruitment crisis and steering the military away from politics.
The examples of what this does to the military would be laughable if they weren’t so dangerous.” “And at every service academy, one can now find ‘diversity, equity, and inclusion’ programming listed for students. “Across the service academies, students can now find indoctrination courses on, and I quote, ‘the social and physical constructs of race, gender, and ethnicity in the context of social inequality in America,’” Wicker said.
Wicker also identified the emergence of this issue at the service academies for the United States military, where abundant programming related to “diversity, equity, and inclusion” has begun to overshadow the need to preserve a warfighting ethos. military is to deter real wars, and win them if necessary, not to wage culture wars within the ranks.” “In addition, they clearly run afoul of America’s founding principles and our country’s dedication to the proposition that all men are created equal. “The ideas propagandized by the bureaucrats and so-called diversity officers within our military are painting a false picture of reality,” Wicker said. The Mississippi senator emphasized the need for the military to focus on deterrence and readiness, while noting that policies related to divisive race and gender ideology only serve to undermine unit cohesion. Senator Roger Wicker, R-Miss., ranking member on the Senate Armed Services Committee, today delivered remarks on the Senate floor blasting the increasing focus on woke policies at the Department of Defense.
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