A new , report , said Pentagon , plans to sniff out” white racists” in the U. S. government came up empty- handed and were even destructive to military readiness and confidence.
A zealous diversity, equity, and inclusion ( DEI ) bureaucracy has been established in the military and service academies, more recently” through mandated executive orders in the 2010s and 2020s”, the report, produced by the Arizona State University’s ( ASU) Center for American Institutions, said. Additionally, it revealed that the” search for “violent radicals” in the military has produced sporadic and frequent outcomes.  ,
According to the report, the government’s” search for light supremacists… appears to be the only extremists that interest the martial” has failed out of a pressure of 2.1 million.
The government has deliberately pushed La policies and re- education classes with the goal”‘ to eliminate racism, sexism, and bad biases that diminish our warfighting effectiveness,'” the , report , said, citing the 2021 Marine Corps DEI Plan.  ,
Military leaders may stop social engineering based on critical race theory and restore strategies that promote figure and merit, according to Donald Critchlow, Director of the Center for American Institutions at ASU.
According to the report,” Spending on DEI programming is increasing. The DOD’s allocation for DEI projects jumped from$ 68 million in fiscal year 2022 to$ 86.5 million in fiscal year 2023. The Pentagon is requesting$ 114.7 million for fiscal year 2024″ . ,
Former Space Force commander Matt Lohmeier,  , who was fired from his position due to his opposition and criticism of DEI policies, is well aware of the impact that giving diversity sensitivity training has had on the Pentagon and military service academies.  ,
” It’s no surprise that young people are leaving the military in record numbers,” Lohmeier said. According to this thorough report, DEI indoctrination has become a fundamental component of military training, which starts for officers at the service academy.
The report provides additional information on how military personnel were advised to report each other when they thought the DEI protocol had been broken.
” Efforts to root out white supremacy involve not only training but also appointing service members to serve as the bureaucracy’s “eyes and ears” to turn in suspects,” according to the report. ” Suspicion replaces trust, understanding, and teamwork” . ,
A commission was established through ASU’s Center for American Institutions to produce the report. It was led by commissioners Lohmeier, Karrin Taylor Robson, and John Cauthen, in tandem with researchers from ASU.  ,
In the report, the group” calls for an immediate end to the Pentagon’s multimillion- dollar DEI bureaucracy” . ,
According to our analysis,” we looked at DEI policy in the military from the late 1990s to the present day and discovered that much more effective ways are there to promote unity and respect among the military ranks than by spending millions annually to divide service members according to their gender or race,” according to Critchlow.  ,
Long before the publication of this report, examples of gross overemphasis on DEI were drawn out.
Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin said,” We woke up one day and discovered that we had extremist elements in our ranks, and they did bad things that we certainly held them accountable for.” He said this during the Senate confirmation hearing.
A memo released in early 2021 that addressed extreme repression in the armed forces was the result of Lloyd’s determination.
” In 2020, Corps Commandant General David Berger asserted that diversity was essential to warfighting”, said the report.” ‘ I am absolutely convinced: Too much similarity – too much that we look all the same, think the same, got the same background – we’re going to get killed.'”
In response to the death of George Floyd, for example, General Mark Milley said,” The protests that have ensued not only speak to this injustice, but also to centuries of injustice towards Black Americans. We, as a nation and as a military, are still struggling with racism, and we have much work to do”.
Kamden Mulder is a summer intern at The Federalist. She is a senior at Hillsdale College majoring in American Studies and Journalism.
