War goes woke

[Counselor706]

Fox News commentator Tucker Carlson recently ignited a firestorm when he mocked President Joe Biden’s comments about the Pentagon’s newly developed flight suits for pregnant women. “So, we’ve got new hairstyles and maternity flight suits — pregnant women are going to fight our wars,” Carlson said. The mockery was directed at Biden for what appeared to be his usual pandering, prioritizing optics over warfare concerns.

But the Pentagon took it personally and fired back with a concerted attack on Carlson, accusing him of belittling servicewomen. “What we absolutely won’t do is take personnel advice from a talk show host or the Chinese military,” responded Pentagon press secretary John Kirby. “Now, maybe those folks feel like they have something to prove; that’s on them.”

The Carlson-Pentagon exchange revealed something troubling about the current state of the U.S. military: the extent to which the military, which claims to be motivated by a professional ethos, has become just another self-interested bureaucracy, and a politicized one to boot. It also reveals that today’s military has chosen “diversity” over military effectiveness. After all, the only purpose of a military in a republic is to keep the country secure. Yet, while war games indicate that the United States would lose a military confrontation with China, the Pentagon seems to be focusing on trivialities.

But recent events should concern military leaders. The very public criticism of President Donald Trump during his tenure by active and retired officers seriously undermined the view of the military as nonpartisan. The Pentagon’s over-the-top response to Carlson’s comments feeds the impression that the military is becoming just another “woke” institution.

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[Bud_Spencer]

The Navy can't keep its ships from colliding with others and the Army can't defeat a band of goat herders from the 7th Century.

China is watching.

 

[LupusDei]

Nothing "woke" about female pilots. Females have more compact bodies with better mass distribution for operation under high g forces. In other words, highly trained females can potentially fly in regimes unreachable to most male pilots, especially the traditionally large "manly" ones.

Also, females have naturally better aptitude for multitasking and modern pilots are increasingly managers of automated systems, eventually AI swarm leaders.


As to pregnancy, well that's something that may happen with a female and is no reason on itself to exclude her from acting in professional quality, it's no disability, at least not until very late stage.

Then, there's even this persistent rumor of carefully timed early pregnancy as a type of doping for highly competitive athletes. Allegedly at very least East German athletes had been experimenting with it, to some success. It wouldn't be that much surprising if similar performance boost is registered and acknowledged (if no more) by the military.