The recent research conducted by Arizona State University has uncovered that the military policy under President Biden’s administration, focusing on “wokeness”, is significantly detrimental to the U.S. armed forces during a period of escalating global uncertainty. The study highlighted that the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion initiatives introduced are adversely affecting recruitment, preparedness, and morale.
According to the findings from the university’s Center for American Institutions, there is a strong emphasis on educating new recruits on social issues like “unconscious bias” and “intersectionality” in a manner that contradicts traditional American values. The study delved into the DEI strategies across different military sectors, including the staffing of DEI offices and educational practices at institutions such as West Point, as reported by The Center Square.
“The massive DEI bureaucracy, its training and its pseudo-scientific assessments are at best distractions that absorb valuable time and resources,” says the executive summary of the study. “At worst they communicate the opposite of the military ethos: e.g. that individual demographic differences come before team and mission.”
Donald Critchlow, the director of the center, highlighted in the introduction of the study that the research sought to analyze the influence of Critical Race Theory on the training programs of the United States Armed Forces.
“The Commission on Civic Education in the Military began as a project to review civic education in the military. Our research team did not expect to find Critical Race Theory so embedded and pervasive. Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion programs are found throughout the U.S. Armed Forces and our service academies,” he wrote. “This year long study documents just how pervasive these training programs are in our Armed Forces and Service Academies and that DEI extends well beyond just formal training programs in the military and service academies.”
“The Founders of our nation understood and feared a politicized military. History had shown them that a politicized army easily became the tool of tyranny. The Armed Forces of the United States has proudly upheld this long tradition of separating mission from politics,” he added.
The study suggests that the Pentagon should eliminate the DEI office going forward, although it recognizes that this is unlikely to happen under Biden’s administration.
“The surest way to eliminate the concerning trends we have identified, and the growth of race and sex-based scapegoating and stereotyping in the U.S. military, is to altogether end the DEI bureaucracy there,” the study says. “However, until such a time as the executive or legislative branches of the government choose to end the DEI bureaucracy in our federal agencies and military, we are left to advocate the pursuit of alternative avenues that may affect positive change despite existing policies.”
Numerous other components of Biden’s domestic agenda include progressive “woke” measures. For example, a recent regulation introduced by the Biden administration in December 2023 aims to withhold lunch funding from public schools that reject or do not adhere to new progressive directives on sexuality and gender, which is expected to anger parents once again.
As detailed by The Center Square previously, noncompliance with the liberal school policies set by the White House may lead to the withdrawal of federal tax funds distributed by the Department of Agriculture.
The controversy began after the USDA announced “it would change its longstanding interpretation of Title IX, the law broadly governing discrimination protections in education,” the outlet reported. “USDA said it would expand its previous prohibition against discriminating based on sex ‘to include discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity.’”
