Wednesday Our Military Doomsday Scenario Open Comments

A former US military base in Afghanistan with armored vehicles and tanks left behind by the Biden/Harris administration.  It all belongs to the Taliban now.

The author of this article:

Jim Nault is an attorney and a retired U.S. Navy Captain and the former Commanding Officer of USS Toledo (SSN-769), an improved, Tomahawk capable Los Angeles class attack submarine homeported in Groton, CT. He is a 1981 graduate of the United States Naval Academy, has Masters Degrees in Mechanical Engineering and National Security Affairs, and graduated from Cornell Law School with honors in 2011.

Report claims senior White Male officers are required to toe the DEI line, or watch their careers implode

These effects are real and are resulting in a smaller U.S. military fighting force. But has the U.S. military lost its fighting edge?

Well, recently an Air Force B-1 bomber crashed short of its landing runway, resulting in injured crewmembers and over $450 million in destruction:

A B-1B Lancer valued at more than $450 million that crashed in South Dakota at the start of this year missed the runway by 100 feet, a mistake accident investigators attributed to the aircrew’s shortcomings as well as the poor training culture within units at Ellsworth Air Force Base.

The scathing crash investigation report shared with Military.com pointed to “failure to perform standard crew resource management,” along with adverse weather conditions, ineffective flying operations supervision, lack of awareness, and “an unhealthy organizational culture that permitted degradation of airmanship skills” as contributing factors in the Jan. 4 crash. [emphasis added]

The comments following this piece are informative and interesting.

Here is the most alarming information from a retired US combat veteran in Iraq:

The original Star Trek series did a famous episode called “Mirror, Mirror.” This was the episode in which Spock famously had a beard, and the premise was that there was an alternate universe in which the Federation were the evil bad guys running amok across the galaxy. In this world, Starfleet officers got ahead by assassinating their superiors. My sources tell me that we are seeing this now at high levels in the DoD, except the tool of assassination is not a phaser, but a discrimination complaint to the local DEI office.

Some people I have talked to inside the DoD at the SES and multi-star flag level (sorry, anonymity is essential here) tell me that we currently have a climate in the very high ranks where efficiency reports, disagreements on the job, promotion and advancement opportunities, and day-to-day operations are all heavily influenced by a fear of displeasing DEI subordinates. As a result, negative words are rarely said about poor performance and advancement opportunities are presented that are not earned. The drill goes like this. A high-ranking officer (who is usually a heterosexual white male) puts in a word (or is perceived as putting in a word) regarding the poor performance of a DEI subordinate (who is him or herself also pretty high ranking) and if things don’t go quite as the subordinate wanted for promotion or new assignments, he/she officially alleges racial, gender and/or sexual orientation discrimination on the part of the superior to their local DEI official, which immediately results in a formal investigation into the superior with a presumption of guilt. This is a death sentence for the superior, as even if the DEI allegations are proven to be unfounded, the mere fact that the claim was made is often found to mean that there is a “loss in confidence” in the white male superior, with that wholly innocent senior officer being quietly cashiered. I am told that every white heterosexual male at high rank understands this game, and does everything he can to avoid it. This is something straight out of the mind of Lavrentiy Beria, and as a consequence the halls of the Pentagon E-Ring are chilled with a sense of fear and walking on eggshells, and it is no wonder that the senior echelons of our military have become so dysfunctional and ineffective. In this context, the disgrace of Abbey Gate really starts to make sense.

I am struck with fear and outrage over what has happened in our military.  Nothing else puts so many Americans in real danger.