Army Gen. Mark Milley pushed back on claims from Republicans that the military is “woke” and as a result not prepared to take on modern threats, saying he’s “not even sure what that word truly means.”
“What I see is a military that’s exceptionally strong. It’s powerful; it’s ready. In fact, our readiness rates, the way we measure readiness, is better now than they’ve been in years,” Milley said in a CNN interview Sunday.
Republican politicians and candidates have blasted the Pentagon for so-called woke policies, pointing to efforts to recruit a diverse group of military service members and be inclusive to transgender soldiers.
Those claims have also headlined efforts to reduce military spending.
They did all of that during every war the U.S. has ever fought too. Were all of those wars "woke" wars?
I never said it was because woke, only that he's lying about readiness because that's his job. The US military attrition rate is ridiculously high right now, and we aren't at war. Why? I'm not going to pretend to know why. Maybe the pay sucks. Maybe the prestige is gone. Maybe the forever wars for oil and opium soured people on the idea. Could be woke stuff, who knows. But the numbers don't lie, people don't want to be in the military as much anymore for some reason.
It isn't. Be serious. The people calling the military 'woke' can't even define the word.