VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: There’s A Problem In The Upper Reaches Of Our Military

It is called Politics, Narcissism and Arrogance

He disgusts me.

The problems in our military extend further than just the upper echelons. Though the issues present in the top brass have the potential for causing the most damage per decision, from the top down, the collective insanity is enough to topple the entire defense of the nation. First, the officers have all been filtered through the university system, which has been purposefully modified to brainwash graduating students. Sadly, even our service academies are not immune from this program. Thus, each officer coming into the service has already been indoctrinated by leftist orthodoxy prior to ever commissioning; they are primed for the very kind of idiocy currently being supported by those like Milley. Next, these officers have control over the careers of NCOs. From first pinning chevrons on their chest until the day they leave the service, each NCO must work to earn good reviews on evaluations or face seeing their careers cut short or, at a minimum, halted. Officers play a vital role in NCO evaluations, thus requiring NCOs to toe the line desired by their raters. By the time officers and NCOs have made their way up the ranks, they have been continuously pushed in a single direction, effectively ensuring the leftist orthodoxy first introduced to young college students pervades the entire military from the top down. Milley is a perfect example of this, and he presently uses the position he finds himself in to push the radical indoctrination further, recommending left-wing reading to the leaders in the military. Furthermore, as the entire military becomes ever more infected with leftist orthodox thinking, the pressure on the newest of recruits to fall in line becomes even greater. Initial training and periodic training activities now push the very same "woke" educational materials onto junior soldiers--things like gender ideology, antiracism, and diversity & inclusivity training. The entire military has become rotten to the core, pushing out any service member who happens to still have a shred of intelligence, dignity, and or integrity. It is only a matter of time before the DoD is rendered absolutely useless, parading around trans service members wearing rainbow flag patches, antifa badges, and screaming leftist screeds. And there is no stopping any of this so long as the only method of commissioning officers lies in earning a college degree (regardless of how worthless the degree) through leftist run universities, as long as the careers of NCOs depend on appeasing officers, and so long as the military and civilian leadership refuse to weed out radicals who seek to spread nonsense. Milley is not the cause of anything but a symptom of a long-suffered disease that has finally started to manifest in a way that has become obvious to even those who don't want to see.