Captain JAMES FANELL
Memo to the Senate: Stop the Marxist Takedown of Our Military! The U.S. Senate must reject Marxist leaders for the U.S. Military Services
Captain JAMES FANELL, U.S. Navy (Ret.), Former Director of Intelligence and Information Operations, U.S. Pacific Fleet
Frank, thank you for the honor of inviting me to speak to this group of assembled former officers to discuss the topic of how the ideology of woke critical race theory, diversity, equity and inclusivity is affecting the military and how we need to root this out of our Department of Defense.
When I came into the Navy, the Soviet Union was our significant threat, the only major threat that faced the United States. And we used to have a group in the Navy called the Soviet Seapower team, and they used to go around and train sailors in what the Soviet ideology was, communism and what Soviet Navy capabilities were.
And for me, it seems that today the Chinese Communist Party and the PRC and their navy is a very significant threat to the United States of America. And what I haven't heard over the last 4 or 5, six years from the leaders, the senior leaders of the Department of Defense, is how they're preparing the department of Defense to prepare and defend against the Chinese Communist Party. Instead, we hear all kinds of crazy things about investment in other kinds of capabilities that have nothing to do with being able to fight and win a war against the Chinese communists should they decide to attack us.
And so, my feeling is, is that these are the kinds of things that our leaders should be talking about and they shouldn't be talking about or training people about diversity, equity, inclusivity, when we were already the most diverse and equitable and inclusive organization in the entire United States government.
So, I would encourage us senators to consider this and to ask these questions of prospective nominees in the department as we go forward. But it's a very corrosive time right now to allow this woke cancer into our force. And we need to get back to war fighting and making that our prime directive.
Thank you.