Biden's Recruiting Crisis

The Pentagon just announced that it's struggling to get the troops they need.  How bad is it?  Bad enough that the Army is offering $50,000 enlistment bonuses to skilled recruits. 

A Pentagon spokesman tried to blame the recruiting crisis on COVID.  Call me skeptical.  But for starters, maybe the Pentagon should stop kicking out troops who object to Biden's vaccine mandate.  That's only compounding the problem. 

Some time ago, I predicted that the military's increasing "wokeness" would cause many traditional conservative, Middle American families to stop encouraging their sons and daughters to join our thoroughly "modern" military.

The American people love the brave patriots who wear our country's uniform, but they despise what's being done to the institution of our military.  As a result, confidence in the military has plummeted.

For more than a decade, the Pentagon bureaucracy has raced to satisfy and reflect the values of the Harvard faculty lounge, instead of the communities where their recruits are born and raised.  For years, the fastest way to move up the ranks was to embrace the left's latest demands, like open homosexuality in the military, which hurt morale. 

While Donald Trump fought wokeness in the military, Joe Biden put it on steroids.  Biden reversed a Trump-era policy so that a man can join the military, declare he is a woman and then force taxpayers to pay for the "reassignment surgery" and hormone treatments.

General Milley shocked the most pro-military members of the Congress when he announced that he wanted our soldiers to learn about "white rage."  Any commander who thinks the biggest problem facing America is "white rage" has no business leading our troops.

The chief of naval operations put "How To Be An Anti-Racist" on the Navy's recommended reading list. That is one of the most radical, racially divisive books in the marketplace.  Why is our woke Navy pushing it on our sailors?

As bad as all these things are, nothing is more of a barrier to recruiting America's bravest young men and women than watching 13 of our sons and daughters die in Biden's botched withdrawal from Afghanistan. 

That atrocity happened because Biden turned over security in Kabul to the Taliban.  He trusted our enemies to secure the perimeter of the airbase where the retreat was organized.  Such incompetence obviously hurts recruitment.

Donald Trump's main them was America First.  Our men and women in uniform are the personification of America First.  They are putting America before their own lives. 

The left's main theme is that America was never great.  In fact, they insist that it was evil from the beginning, founded on genocide and slavery, and remains evil today.  They claim that America is so infected with "systemic racism" that it must be "fundamentally transformed."

How many young men and women do you think would sign up to defend such a country?

Sadly, I fear our recruiting problems are just getting started, and just as the threats from foreign enemies are growing exponentially.  (Here, here, here and here.)