{"id":237790,"date":"2021-03-17T11:45:16","date_gmt":"2021-03-17T15:45:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=237790"},"modified":"2021-03-17T11:45:19","modified_gmt":"2021-03-17T15:45:19","slug":"shapiro-wokeifying-americas-military","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/shapiro-wokeifying-americas-military\/","title":{"rendered":"SHAPIRO: Wokeifying America\u2019s Military"},"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\">8<\/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%2Fshapiro-wokeifying-americas-military%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=237790&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\/03\/fb_image-1541.jpeg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>This week, President Biden\u2019s military declared its first war \u2026 on Fox News host Tucker Carlson. Carlson had committed the great sin of pointing out the oddity of the fact that the Biden White House had been promoting brand-new uniforms for pregnant soldiers, rather than America\u2019s military efficiency in the face of a rising Chinese military threat. This prompted spasms of apoplexy from top brass in the military itself: Pentagon spokesperson John Kirby said that the Pentagon was filled with \u201crevulsion\u201d at Carlson\u2019s comments, adding, \u201cWe absolutely won\u2019t just take personnel advice from a talk show\u201d; Army Sgt. Maj. Michael Grinston tweeted that women \u201cwill dominate ANY future battlefield we\u2019re called to fight on,\u201d calling Carlson\u2019s words \u201cdivisive\u201d; Marine Corps Master Gunnery Sgt. Scott H. Stalker, the senior enlisted leader of the U.S. Space Command, said that Carlson\u2019s opinion was \u201cbased off of actually zero days of service in the armed forces.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-slot-rendered-dynamic=\"true\">Now, the military itself recognizes that pregnant women can\u2019t exactly staff front-line positions. At 20 weeks of pregnancy, pregnant soldiers in the Army are exempt from field duty, deployment, wearing individual body armor, standing at parade rest or attention for longer than 15 minutes, or participating in weapons training; upon diagnosis of pregnancy, all pregnant soldiers are exempt from regular physical fitness training.<\/p>\n<p>And the military has reported in the past that mixed units underperform all-male combat units. In 2015, a yearlong Marine Corps report found that, according to NPR, \u201call-male units were faster, more lethal and able to evacuate casualties in less time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But&nbsp;<span class=\"column--highlighted-text\">the content of Carlson\u2019s words was less important than the reaction to them, for it was unprecedented for top members of the military to unite in excoriating a civilian opinion journalist<\/span>. Had it happened on former President Trump\u2019s watch, the media undoubtedly would have used it as an example of politics infusing traditionally apolitical institutions. Dark buzzwords like \u201cauthoritarian\u201d and \u201cfascist\u201d would have been tossed around casually. Yet when the military was mobilized to attack Carlson, the media cheered instead.<\/p>\n<p data-slot-rendered-dynamic=\"true\">We are watching in real time America\u2019s institutions being gutted on behalf of left-wing politics. Formerly apolitical institutions are being remolded top down to reflect the values of our New Ruling Class: those who speak the wokeabulary, who believe in the tyrannical and polarizing theories of Ibram X. Kendi and Kimberle Crenshaw, who see their roles as the social engineers of their fellow Americans. This is true in our universities; it\u2019s true in our colleges; it\u2019s true at our corporations; and now it\u2019s true in the American military. No wonder we\u2019re told that our military will somehow be stronger for tossing out gender-neutral physical fitness tests, or paying for transgender surgeries, or forcing soldiers to read the asinine musings of critical race theorists.<\/p>\n<p>Our military is designed to deter and to defend, to kill people and break things. If diversity facilitates that mission, that\u2019s wonderful. But to supplant the military\u2019s chief mission with the woke protocols of the political left is to undermine that chief mission. The world is a dangerous, ugly, competitive place. If our masturbatory woke solipsism blinds us to that reality, the cost will be quite real \u2014 far more real than any supposed threat emanating from the musings of Tucker Carlson.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/shapiro-debunking-transgenderism\">More from Ben Shapiro: Debunking Transgenderism<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><i>The views expressed in this opinion piece are the author\u2019s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><i>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;<\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><span class=\"s1\"><i>member<\/i><\/span><\/a><i>.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week, President Biden\u2019s military declared its first war \u2026 on Fox News host Tucker Carlson. 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