Major Gen JOSEPH W. ARBUCKLE
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
Major Gen JOSEPH W. ARBUCKLE
U.S. Army (Ret.), Vice Chair, STARRS; Founder, Flag Officers 4 America
MG Joseph W. Arbuckle, USA (Ret.): [00:31:46] I'm going to kick off about 4 or 5 points and reinforce much of what's been said already. And this is coming from a soldier's perspective about the damage that is doing to our military. I like to use the metaphor of a Trojan horse for [00:32:00] to describe di. Di is a Trojan horse, but hidden inside is the very poisonous thing called Marxism. The words are nice. Diversity, equity inclusion may sound good. People understand those. But inside basically is what I said is Marxism based on CRT. And this basically attacks the heart and soul of our warrior ethos. Let me get into that a little bit as it destroys trust and confidence within the ranks. You know, the DOD says that Dei is our strength. Well, that's not right. It's exactly the opposite. Unity is the strength in our military. Dei is divisive by its very nature, as it puts people, as has been discussed before, into identity groups, primarily based upon race, and then pits them against each other based upon one being the oppressors and the other being oppressed, primarily whites oppressing [00:33:00] blacks. Now that sets up a victimhood mentality, which then leads to the feeling that some kind of special treatment and entitlements are deserved by those who are in the oppressed class and those are reflected in things like standards at applications to be accepted into service at committees, promotion boards and key assignments like that in personnel action.
MG Joseph W. Arbuckle, USA (Ret.): [00:33:25] Next point I want to make is. That opposes a time-tested battle model. We've always had in our military that General Boykin hit earlier very well. And that is one team, one fight, one team, one fight basically focuses all our military on one mission and one purpose. Again, General Boykin hit that. Second point under that is the loyalty is to the team. It is not to an individual, not to a self. Or to any particular identity group based on [00:34:00] race, gender, ethnicity or sexual orientation. And finally, one team, one fight means you have total trust and confidence in each other from the foxhole all the way up to the very top of the chain of command. That is the president of the United States. Erodes and undermines that total trust and confidence, which leads to camaraderie and also cohesion. Now is also the opposite of meritocracy. Meritocracy has been the basis system that our military has operated on successfully in wartime for decades. And I'll close it off since my time is up, obviously. Sorry about that. By saying, as others have said before, the solution lies with Congress because the problems with DUI are coming from our executive branch. Therefore, Congress has to step in and do their part [00:35:00] to ensure that people who are. Rising to the top ranked are based are there because of meritocracy and not because of their support of DEI.