Our Military Is In Crisis

President Joe Biden is in Europe promising to send more American military personnel, equipment and aid to protect our allies from Russia. Perhaps he should pay more attention to what is happening to our military here at home. 

Like everything else in Joe Biden’s America, our military is in crisis.

In March, the Army announced that it was shrinking its size to pre-World War II levels because it just can’t find enough recruits. Last week, the Army announced that it was lowering standards yet again because it has only met 40% of its yearly recruiting goal. 

The Pentagon blames this struggle on the “great economy,” as if people only join the military for a job. But insiders are pointing to more obvious issues. Part of the problem is the military’s COVID vaccination requirement, which is ludicrous for healthy 18 to 24 year-olds. 

But the bigger problem is that our academic, cultural and political elites are constantly telling our youth how terrible America is. “America has never been great,” they say. They claim America was founded on genocide and slavery. In fact, America is so evil, they insist it must be “fundamentally transformed.”

You don’t “fundamentally transform” something you love. Young people won’t fight and die for a country that they are taught is evil. 

Again, the rhetoric of the left is just as insidious and dangerous as enemy propaganda from communist China, Iran or Russia. 

In addition, young Americans, just like the rest of us, saw Biden’s disastrous retreat from Afghanistan. That didn’t exactly inspire confidence. 

Late last year, polling found that confidence in the military had plummeted. I suspect that’s because the left’s radical woke agenda has infected the Armed Forces. 

But young Americans don’t join the military to fight and die under the gay pride flag. 

They don’t join the military to be trained in the use of preferred pronouns. 

They don’t join the military to hear lectures from French academics about the superiority of socialism.

They join because they love America and they want to defend it. The Founding Fathers loved America. The Greatest Generation loved America. 

But it shouldn’t surprise us that there’s not much love for the radical left’s distorted, woke version of America.