{"id":1278552,"date":"2022-02-07T13:07:57","date_gmt":"2022-02-07T18:07:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1278552"},"modified":"2022-02-07T13:08:03","modified_gmt":"2022-02-07T18:08:03","slug":"exclusive-marine-veteran-rep-mike-gallagher-blasts-militarys-woke-diversity-agenda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/exclusive-marine-veteran-rep-mike-gallagher-blasts-militarys-woke-diversity-agenda\/","title":{"rendered":"Exclusive: Marine Veteran Rep. Mike Gallagher Blasts Military&#039;s Woke &#039;Diversity&#039; Agenda"},"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%2Fexclusive-marine-veteran-rep-mike-gallagher-blasts-militarys-woke-diversity-agenda%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=1278552&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\/2022\/02\/GettyImages-1341706387-640x335-1.png\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">U.S. Marine veteran and&nbsp;top Republican on the Armed Services Subcommittee on Military Personnel Rep. Mike Gallagher (R-WI) called out the military\u2019s woke \u201cdiversity, equity, and inclusion\u201d (DEI) agenda at a recent speech obtained first by Breitbart News.<\/p>\n<p>In the address last week at Hillsdale College, Gallagher criticized military leaders for \u201casking us to embrace a brand of identity politics that is fashionable on the left right now, one which judges people explicitly by the color of their skin rather than on their merits as individuals.\u201d He added:<\/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<blockquote>\n<p>It should alarm us that the same military leaders we trust to train our sons and daughters for war are building their DEI agenda upon a foundation of fringe history and shoddy social science. Their underlying assumption that we can generalize questionable findings from the private sector to the specific business of asking young men and women to kill and be killed for their country is an assault on common sense.<\/p>\n<p>Furthermore, those who view DEI as a harmless addition to the many things the military must do ignore <a href=\"https:\/\/psych.wisc.edu\/Brauer\/BrauerLab\/index.php\/implicit-bias\/\">recent evidence<\/a> demonstrating initiatives such as implicit bias training either are ineffective or actually intensify inter-group hostility.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Gallagher cited Navy Vice Adm. John Nowell Jr.\u2019s assertion at an event in August 2021, \u201cWe know diverse teams that are led inclusively will perform better.\u201d&nbsp;Gallagher said that claim appears to come from a Navy report commissioned after George Floyd\u2019s death, which relies on a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pnas.org\/content\/111\/52\/18524\">2014 study<\/a> not related to the military or even team performance.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith such a poor empirical and methodological foundation, at best DEI will waste service member time and taxpayer money,\u201d Gallagher said.<\/p>\n<p>He also said the Pentagon\u2019s fixation on race versus merit would undermine military morale, readiness for combat, and hurt recruiting.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The woke military brass are horrifyingly clueless and inept. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ysXZcCVcjh\">https:\/\/t.co\/ysXZcCVcjh<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Breitbart News (@BreitbartNews) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreitbartNews\/status\/1434532455621533699?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 5, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cThe U.S. military is an elite and meritocratic organization where only the most fit, disciplined, and lethal individuals should thrive, regardless of skin color. \u2026 Actual strength\u2014physical strength, mental strength, and overall end strength\u2014is our strength,\u201d he said.&nbsp;\u201cDEI initiatives risk sapping this strength.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He also warned that the Pentagon\u2019s \u201cDEI evangelists\u201d are ironically stifling the very type of diversity that might improve military performance: intellectual diversity. \u201cGrowing DEI bureaucracy inside the military is the same woke commissariat that has put an ideological straitjacket on America\u2019s elite educational institutions,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The Biden Pentagon has made DEI initiatives a top priority.<\/p>\n<p>Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin, the first black person to hold the position, wrote <a href=\"https:\/\/media.defense.gov\/2021\/Mar\/04\/2002593656\/-1\/-1\/0\/SECRETARY-LLOYD-J-AUSTIN-III-MESSAGE-TO-THE-FORCE.PDF\">in a March 4 memo<\/a> to the entire Pentagon force that \u201cthe Department will lead with our values, building diversity, equity, and inclusion into all aspects of our work and in everything we do.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Former President Donald Trump criticized the \u201cwoke\u201d generals in the United States military on Saturday at a rally in Alabama, contrasting them to World War II Gen. George Patton <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/yZx2HMMu4F\">https:\/\/t.co\/yZx2HMMu4F<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Breitbart News (@BreitbartNews) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreitbartNews\/status\/1429447596540583937?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 22, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Austin also appointed the department\u2019s first senior diversity adviser, Bishop Garrison, who is also leading an effort against \u201cextremism\u201d in the military.<\/p>\n<p>Pentagon Press Secretary John Kirby, a retired Navy admiral, recently defended the Pentagon from criticism is it becoming too woke, calling it a \u201cstraw man.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was in the military for 30 years, and I can tell you things like diversity and inclusion, that makes us a better military because it brings to the fore, in the decision-making, operational decision-making, that we conduct better ideas, more unique perspectives. Somebody else\u2019s lived experiences which might actually make us smarter on the battlefield,\u201d Kirby argued January 30 on Fox News.<\/p>\n<p>Gallagher said in a statement to Breitbart News on Monday:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Marine Corps Doctrinal Publication 1 Warfighting reminds us the military has two basic functions: \u2018\u2026waging war and preparing for war. Any military activities that do not contribute to the conduct of a present war are justifiable only if they contribute to preparedness for a possible future one.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Secretary Austin, General Milley, and others claim DEI initiatives will improve battlefield performance, but closer scrutiny of these claims reveal they are building their entire DEI agenda on a foundation of fringe history and shoddy social science. In order to prevent, and if necessary win, wars in the 21st century, the U.S. military must remain a colorblind meritocracy free from radical identity politics and laser-focused on warfighting.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\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>U.S. Marine veteran and\u00a0top Republican on the Armed Services Subcommittee on Military Personnel Rep. Mike Gallagher (R-WI) called out the military\u2019s woke \u201cdiversity, equity, and inclusion\u201d (DEI) agenda at a &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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-1278552","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\/1278552","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1278552"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1278552\/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=1278552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1278552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1278552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}