{"id":1291893,"date":"2022-02-11T09:54:05","date_gmt":"2022-02-11T14:54:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1291893"},"modified":"2022-02-11T15:07:49","modified_gmt":"2022-02-11T20:07:49","slug":"three-star-general-teaching-critical-race-theory-leads-to-military-failure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/three-star-general-teaching-critical-race-theory-leads-to-military-failure\/","title":{"rendered":"Three-Star General: Teaching Critical Race Theory Leads To Military Failure"},"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\">20<\/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%2Fthree-star-general-teaching-critical-race-theory-leads-to-military-failure%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=1291893&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\/A84F8BE3-AFB0-47AF-90B6-E684B4806B79_1_201_a-1.jpeg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2006\/04\/10\/world\/middleeast\/third-retired-general-wants-rumsfeld-out.html\">three-star<\/a> general has warned that teaching Critical Race Theory (CRT) in the military divides soldiers by race, diminishes our \u201cwarfighting capabilities,\u201d and increases the likelihood of \u201cfailure\u201d on the battlefield.<\/p>\n<p>Lieutenant General Greg Newbold (USMC, Ret.) strongly criticized military leaders \u2014 and civilian commanders \u2014 who \u201cfavor social engineering goals\u201d over \u201cmeritocracy\u201d and military preparedness.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe tenets of Critical Race Theory \u2013 a cross-disciplinary intellectual and social movement that seeks to examine the intersection of race and law in the United States, but which has the unfortunate effect of dividing people along racial lines \u2013 undermine our military\u2019s unity and diminish our warfighting capabilities,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/taskandpurpose.com\/opinion\/critical-military-theory\/\">wrote<\/a> Newbold&nbsp;in the military publication Task &amp; Purpose on Thursday. \u201c[W]hen we highlight differences or group identity, we undermine cohesion and morale. Failure results.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Newbold, the former director of operations for the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said the military requires conformity and unity; \u201cgroup identity is corrosive and \u2026 antithetical to the traits that deter a potential enemy and win the wars.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThose officeholders who dilute this core truth with civil society\u2019s often appropriate priorities (diversity, gender focus, etc.) undermine the military\u2019s chances of success in combat. Reduced chances for success mean more casualties,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCombat is the harshest meritocracy that exists,\u201d he added, calling for \u201cruthless adherence to this principle.\u201d Military leaders risk the nation\u2019s safety when they \u201cdilute requirements based purely on merit in favor of predetermined outcomes to favor social engineering goals.\u201d He said the desire to place women in combat positions was one such example. Combat units must reflect \u201cthe highest levels of discipline, fitness, cohesion, esprit, and just plain grit.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Newbold obliquely criticized both President Joe Biden and Chairman of the Joint Chief of Staff Mark Milley. America\u2019s leaders suffering from \u201cwarfare dementia\u201d forget the high casualties of war \u201cmost assuredly will be paid in blood. The condition is exacerbated and enabled when the most senior military leaders \u2014 those who ought to know better \u2014 defer to the idealistic judgments of those whose credentials are either nonexistent or formed entirely by ideology,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n<p>Milley <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/highest-ranking-u-s-military-official-defends-teaching-crt\">testified<\/a> before Congress last year that U.S. soldiers should study CRT, because \u201cI want to understand white rage,\u201d which he alleged fueled the D.C. riot last January 6. His remarks drew instant backlash. J.D. Vance, the author of \u201cHillbilly Elegy\u201d and Republican primary candidate for U.S. Senate from Ohio, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/read-less-about-white-rage-more-about-not-losing-wars-hillbilly-elegy-author-rips-top-u-s-general\">replied<\/a>, \u201cI personally would like American generals to read less about \u2018white rage\u2019 (whatever that is) and more about \u2018not losing wars.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/what-is-critical-race-theory-breaking-down-the-ideology-thats-hitting-schools-across-the-country\">CRT<\/a>, which author and commentator Richard Delgado <a href=\"https:\/\/digitalcommons.law.seattleu.edu\/cgi\/viewcontent.cgi?article=1039&amp;context=faculty\">said<\/a> was created at an academic conference by \u201ca bunch of Marxists,\u201d became a national controversy as parents raised concerns over materials in their children\u2019s curriculum. His article contrasted CRT with \u201cthe tenets of Critical Military Theory,\u201d the philosophy necessary to win, or prevent, wars.<\/p>\n<p>Newbold went on to denounce all social or political causes that did not contribute to the military\u2019s two key goals: to deter aggression or defeat the enemy in war. \u201cWe signal a dangerous shift in priorities (as just one example) when global warming, not preparedness to defeat aggressive global competitors,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n<p>Newbold sounded similar alarms last July, when he <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2021\/07\/29\/how-woke-u-s-military-leaders-make-u-s-enemies-more-likely-to-start-a-war\/\">wrote<\/a> in The Federalist:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em>Our adversaries observe how social engineering has become deeply embedded in our military, and they conclude that we are weak, built on feet of clay. They lampoon and deride our silliness (and so do many of our troops).<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>When enemies read of male soldiers wearing pregnancy suits and high heels, required \u201csensitivity\u201d training, \u201cEmma and her two moms\u201d recruiting videos, \u201csafe spaces\u201d from the pressures of introductory training, the dilution of our ground combat forces, and transgender special treatment, they judge these actions not by our standards, but by their own.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>With prescience, he asked whether apparent U.S. weakness would trigger future Chinese and Russian military aggression. \u201cWill China be more or less emboldened to seize Taiwan if they misjudge the strength and grit of our military?\u201d he asked. \u201cWill Russian President Vladimir Putin conclude that our forces are not as tough as Russian soldiers[\u2026]?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Newbold has attacked politicians of both parties when they pursued policies he believed risked American lives unnecessarily. He received glowing coverage when he became an outspoken critic of the U.S. invasion of Iraq after retiring from the Marine Corps in 2002. \u201cThe commitment of our forces to this fight was done&nbsp;with a casualness and swagger that are the special province of those who have never had to execute these missions \u2014 or bury the results,\u201d he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spokesman.com\/stories\/2006\/apr\/18\/david-s-broder-generals-calls-must-be-heeded\/\">wrote<\/a> in 2006. He also publicly called for then-Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baltimoresun.com\/news\/bs-xpm-2006-04-14-0604140148-story.html\">resign<\/a> over setbacks encountered during that conflict. The same year, he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/archive\/local\/2006\/05\/14\/who-supports-the-senate-candidates\/c706ae7f-bf5b-4a12-aab0-1fa367d5b7ea\/\">endorsed<\/a> Democrat <a href=\"https:\/\/therightswriter.com\/2011\/05\/congress-ignores-obama%E2%80%99s-war-by-fiat\/\">Jim Webb<\/a>, who went on to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/story\/ex-reagan-aide-webb-wins-virginia-democratic-senate-primary\">win<\/a> Virginia\u2019s U.S. Senate race.<\/p>\n<p><em>The views expressed in this piece are the author\u2019s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a&nbsp;<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em>member<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A three-star general has warned that teaching Critical Race Theory (CRT) in the military divides soldiers by race, diminishes our \u201cwarfighting capabilities,\u201d and increases the likelihood of \u201cfailure\u201d on the &#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-1291893","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\/1291893","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=1291893"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1291893\/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=1291893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1291893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1291893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}