It was discussed how woke policies are allegedly destroying the US military, and the impact on recruitment and morale was analyzed. The author, a veteran who served in both Iraq and Afghanistan, shared her insights on leadership issues and the disconnect between leadership and the troops.
She's out with a new book called Unfit the Fight, How Woke Policies Are Destroying Our Military.
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It was discussed how woke policies are allegedly destroying the US military, and the impact on recruitment and morale was analyzed. The author, a veteran who served in both Iraq and Afghanistan, shared her insights on leadership issues and the disconnect between leadership and the troops.
She's out with a new book called Unfit the Fight, How Woke Policies Are Destroying Our Military.
I was proud to write an endorsement of this book as well.
And then in 2022, the chief of staff of the army went and testified on Capitol Hill and he was testifying about the army missing their recruitment numbers by 25%.
And so I decided to write my book on fit to fight.
And I think that, you know, parents get used to a certain lifestyle in America and it being comfortable and it being easy.
Episode: Daily Review with Clay and Buck - Apr 30 2024
Amber Smith, a combat veteran and former senior defense official, discussed her book, which details how 'woke' policies are negatively impacting the military and its effectiveness.
She was a combat pilot, uh, helo, rotary wing pilot in Afghanistan and she's gonna talk to us a bit about what uh her new book is about so we're gonna enjoy that conversation to be sure.
She's got a book, a new book out, 'Unfit to Fight: How Woke Policies Are Destroying Our Military'.
It is now systemic throughout the Department of Defense and the military and it did catch a lot of people by surprise because if you think about wokeness, you think, you know, for a while now people have seen it in the public school system, in the medical system, in different industries throughout America.
Sadly, because of woke leadership both in the Biden administration and inside the Department of Defense, they have shifted that priority, the one that I served in that I loved where we, you know, trained every day to ensure that we had the skills, equipment, training necessary to accomplish the mission.
For everyone out there, we got a lot of military, current and and former, so we have a lot of veterans, a lot of active military listen to the show, but you know that's a portion of the audience, a lot of other people, they're not specifically personally familiar with military operations.
Episode: Hour 3 - Amber Smith
It was discussed how "woke" policies are negatively impacting the US military, leading to a shift in focus from mission-oriented goals to identity politics and diversity, negatively affecting recruitment, retention, and morale.
it is now systemic throughout the department of defense and the military and it did catch a lot of people by surprise because if you think about wokeness you think for a while now people have seen it in the public school system, in the medical system, in different industries throughout America but most people weren't paying attention to what was going on inside the military
they have shifted that priority the one that I served in that I loved where we trained every day to ensure that we had the skills equipment training necessary to accomplish the mission we're not seeing that in today's military and it has some very serious and dangerous consequences when it comes to our national security and the threat suite base and the viability and sustainability of the all that we have had since the end of the Vietnam war.
China's watching Russia Iran North Korea they're all paying attention to what is going on inside our military and it just projects some serious weakness all of our adversaries are not focused on ensuring that their troops are focused on proper pronouns and men being allowed to wear finger polish or if the word mohawk is offensive they are focused on which our military by the way is focused on now our adversaries are focused on how they can fight and destroy their enemy which happens to be us