{"id":591179,"date":"2021-07-14T15:20:53","date_gmt":"2021-07-14T19:20:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=591179"},"modified":"2021-07-14T15:20:55","modified_gmt":"2021-07-14T19:20:55","slug":"u-s-navy-not-ready-for-war-weathering-a-crisis-of-woke-leadership-and-culture-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/u-s-navy-not-ready-for-war-weathering-a-crisis-of-woke-leadership-and-culture-report\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Navy Not Ready For War, \u2018Weathering A Crisis\u2019 Of Woke Leadership And Culture: Report"},"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\">30<\/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%2Fu-s-navy-not-ready-for-war-weathering-a-crisis-of-woke-leadership-and-culture-report%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=591179&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\/06\/GettyImages-107506559.jpg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>A new report for Congress, prepared by retired naval officers&nbsp;Marine Lt. Gen. Robert Schmidle and Rear Adm. Mark Montgomery, at the behest of Republican legislators, claims the United States Navy is an \u201cinstitution adrift,\u201d is not prepared for war, and is struggling through a \u201ccrisis\u201d of woke leadership, according to the Wall Street Journal.<\/p>\n<p>The report, commissioned by Republican&nbsp;Sen. Tom Cotton (AK), and Reps. Mike Gallagher (WI), Dan Crenshaw (TX), and Jim Banks (IN) was designed to uncover whether the ongoing efforts to improve \u201cdiversity, equity, and inclusion\u201d (DEI) training was affecting military readiness \u2014 and whether the DEI efforts were impeding the duty of the United States Military.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe impetus for the report was a series of recent catastrophes\u2014a ship burning in San Diego last year; two destroyer collisions in the Pacific in 2017,\u201d WSJ noted, adding that the legislators were concerned that \u201clarger institutional issues that are degrading the performance of the entire naval surface force.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The two retired naval officers&nbsp;\u201cconducted long-form interviews with numerous active-duty and recently retired or detached officers and enlisted personnel about their insights into the culture of the United States Navy following a series of high-profile and damaging operational failures in the Navy\u2019s Surface Warfare community.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Among the key findings:&nbsp;\u201cMany sailors found their leadership distracted, captive to bureaucratic excess, and rewarded for the successful execution of administrative functions,\u201d rather than for their readiness for combat, per WSJ.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI guarantee you every unit in the Navy is up to speed on their diversity training,\u201d one \u201crecently retired senior enlisted leader\u201d reportedly told the outlet. \u201cI\u2019m sorry that I can\u2019t say the same of their ship-handling training.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSometimes I think we care more about whether we have enough diversity officers than if we\u2019ll survive a fight with the Chinese navy,\u201d one \u201canonymous active-duty lieutenant\u201d told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/media\/navy-admiral-report-combat-readiness-china-battle\">investigators per Fox News<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The report added that the Navy does not spend enough time or money on training its surface warfare officers, leaving its war rooms \u201cill-prepared.\u201d The Navy\u2019s deployments are too long, the report noted, risking efficiency, and commanding officers are trained to be \u201crisk-averse,\u201d because of a culture of \u201cbrutal accountability\u201d for administrative decisions.<\/p>\n<p>Retired Rear Adm. Mark Montgomery spoke about the report to Fox News on Wednesday, blasted the Navy\u2019s apparent lack of preparedness, and suggested that relative peacetime has made the Navy a bureaucracy rather than a fighting force.<\/p>\n<p>Montgomery \u201cnoted that there were \u2018suspicions\u2019 of \u2018underinvestment in officer&nbsp;training and under-resourced&nbsp;ship maintenance,\u2019 however, \u2018what we didn\u2019t know was how&nbsp;perceptive the young sailors,&nbsp;the men and women who crew our&nbsp;ships are,&#8217;\u201d Fox reported. \u201cMontgomery went on to say that the report showed that the sailors indicated there was an \u2018overfocus\u2019 on administration&nbsp;and training, which was \u2018pulling us away from&nbsp;our focus on warfighting.&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen a Navy ship gets ready&nbsp;to get underway, it needs to focus&nbsp;on training and warfighting and&nbsp;not on administrative briefings&nbsp;on any issue or that issue,\u201d he added but noted that with the right \u201cinvestment\u201d things could be turned around quickly.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s got to be that focus on warfighting,\u201d Montgomery said. &nbsp;\u201cThe way you get there is the proper&nbsp;investments of the sailor\u2019s time&nbsp;and the government\u2019s and the&nbsp;taxpayer\u2019s money.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe sailors\u2019 time is in warfighting, not briefings,\u201d he continued.&nbsp;\u201cThe government\u2019s money is in high-end simulations and in the&nbsp;maintenance of the ships.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><i>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. 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