{"id":1104606,"date":"2021-12-10T00:28:52","date_gmt":"2021-12-10T05:28:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1104606"},"modified":"2021-12-10T00:28:54","modified_gmt":"2021-12-10T05:28:54","slug":"defense-secretary-lloyd-austin-various-websites-add-fuel-to-military-partisanship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/defense-secretary-lloyd-austin-various-websites-add-fuel-to-military-partisanship\/","title":{"rendered":"Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin: &#039;Various Websites&#039; Add Fuel to Military Partisanship"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fdefense-secretary-lloyd-austin-various-websites-add-fuel-to-military-partisanship%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1104606&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/GettyImages-1235956103-640x335-1.png\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin this week pointed to \u201cvarious websites\u201d as a reason the military has become more partisan, after a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2021\/12\/04\/survey-americans-with-a-great-deal-of-confidence-in-u-s-military-drops-11-percent-under-biden\/\">survey showed<\/a> that&nbsp;only 40 percent of Americans had great confidence in the U.S. military\u2019s ability to act in a professional and nonpolitical manner.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe military doesn\u2019t exist in a vacuum and as you take a look at the landscape around the country, things have become a lot more partisan in recent years and if you look at what\u2019s going on on various websites that really adds fuel to some of that partisanship,\u201d he told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=o0tUsbgRs5g\">Defense One recently<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>He did not specify what websites he was referring to.<\/p>\n<p>He added, \u201cThere are things within the military that you certainly would \u2014 internal issues that you want to make sure you focus on and be concerned about but there are also external drivers that can really cause politicization of the military.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The survey by the Ronald Reagan Institute also showed a drop of 11 points in Americans who had great confidence in the U.S. military since February 2021, when President Joe Biden entered office.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>Austin said about the politicization of the military, \u201cI think that this is something that is important to us, this is something that we\u2019ll continue to work on, again, it\u2019s critical that the American people have confidence in its military, and it is a great military.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"page\" title=\"Page 1\">\n<div class=\"section\" readability=\"7.5\">\n<div class=\"layoutArea\" readability=\"10\">\n<p>&nbsp;The survey, published this month, comes months after high-profile congressional hearings where military leaders defended learning about Critical Race Theory.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Army Gen. Mark Milley in June defended CRT seminars at West Point, arguing that learning about CRT does not mean one believes in it, but then added that he wanted to understand \u201cwhite rage\u201d and tied it to the January 6 attack on the Capitol.<\/p>\n<p>And under grilling from members of Congress, the Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Mike Gilday defended putting the book&nbsp;<em>How to Be an Antiracist<\/em> on his recommended reading list.<\/p>\n<p>The Army also recently put out a high-profile series of \u201cwoke\u201d recruiting advertisements featuring women, and racial and gender minorities. One advertisement that received a lot of attention was a female Army soldier who marched with lesbian mothers.<\/p>\n<p>Conservative Fox News show host Tucker Carlson has also highlighted military reforms aimed at being more accommodating to women, and contrasted that China\u2019s focus on building its Navy.<\/p>\n<p>The Biden administration has pursued an effort to root out \u201cextremists\u201d from the military, without having a definition for what it means, which has unnerved conservatives who fear it is aimed at them. The administration has also mandated the COVID-19 vaccine, which has become highly-politicized.<\/p>\n<p>Some on the left suggest the politicization happened under former President Donald Trump \u2014 when the National Guard was called to protect federal offices and monuments during the George Floyd protests during the summer of 2020, or because Milley had appeared in uniform with Trump in the aftermath of a near-siege on the White House, or because a number of veterans participated in January 6 protests.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Follow Breitbart News\u2019s Kristina Wong on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/kristina_wong\">Twitter<\/a>&nbsp;or on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/kristinawongreporting\">Facebook<\/a>.<\/em>&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin this week pointed to \u201cvarious websites\u201d as a reason the military has become more partisan, after a survey showed that\u00a0only 40 percent of Americans had great &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1104606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1104606","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1104606"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1104606\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1104606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1104606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1104606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}