By Casey Harper (The Middle Sq.)
The Pentagon is more and more struggling to fill the weapons and tools requests for the conflict in Ukraine. On the identical time, taxpayer funds are going to pay for ongoing variety, fairness and inclusion efforts within the navy, most not too long ago one controversial Pentagon official pushing anti-police and pro-critical race principle books at faculties for the kids of navy households.
The New York Occasions not too long ago highlighted the Pentagon’s manufacturing downside with a narrative headlined: “From Rockets to Ball Bearings: Pentagon Struggles to Feed Struggle Machine.”
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The Pentagon would reportedly wrestle to fabricate sufficient precision missiles if battle with China broke out after sending over a a long time price of Stinger missiles to Ukraine as quickly because the conflict broke out, one in all a number of regarding manufacturing points which have been uncovered by the calls for of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
“I’ve been sounding an alarm for months about shortcomings [and] shrinkages in our protection manufacturing capability,” U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., mentioned in response to the story. “Mergers [and] provide chain points are solely a part of the issue. America is neglecting our largest useful resource – folks. And our key problem – workforce coaching.”
These difficulties come because the Pentagon more and more focuses its consideration, and funds, on fairness initiatives.
Critics say the Pentagon has grow to be distracted. U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., and Rep. Chip Roy, R-Texas, commissioned a report that laid out a sequence of examples of racial and gender ideology permeating navy coaching, insurance policies and management, all at taxpayer expense, as The Middle Sq. beforehand reported.
In a type of examples, the report factors to official coaching supplies during which West Level cadets are lectured on white privilege. The report factors to a different case the place a slide presentation for the Air Pressure Academy is titled, “Variety & Inclusion: What it’s, why we care, & what we will do,” which warns cadets to keep away from gendered language, akin to phrases like “mother” and “dad.”
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The latest Division of Protection’s comptroller’s price range report factors to hundreds of thousands of {dollars} in fairness funding as properly.
“Guaranteeing accountable management by including almost $500 million in FY 2023 to implement the suggestions of the Impartial Evaluate Fee (IRC) on Sexual Assault within the Army, enhancing variety, fairness, inclusion, and accessibility (DEIA) packages, and addressing extremism within the ranks,” the comptroller report mentioned.
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“The Division will lead with our values – constructing variety, fairness, and inclusion into all the pieces we do,” the report added.
The report factors to $86.5 million for “devoted variety and inclusion actions.”
“Moreover, to facilitate, inform, and advance company progress on points regarding DEIA, DoD established the DoD Fairness Staff (DET) in 2021,” the report mentioned. “The DET addressed a broad vary of DEIA points, together with the necessity for elevated variety inside the expertise pipeline; challenges pertaining to DEIA information assortment, evaluation, and administration; and integration of D&I curriculum into management growth coaching.”
Main Charlie Dietz, a DOD spokesman within the Workplace of the Secretary of Protection, pushed again in opposition to the GOP report after its launch.
“Variety, inclusion, and equality at its core is about leveraging the strengths of all our folks, advancing alternative, addressing potential limitations or discrepancies, and – basically – making certain persons are handled with dignity and respect,” he instructed The Middle Sq. on the time of the report’s launch. “We all the time discuss weapons programs, but each one in all us will agree that our biggest weapons system are our folks. In order that’s why our insurance policies to raised leverage our folks and enhance unit cohesion are vital right here.”
The Pentagon’s Workplace for Variety, Fairness, and Inclusion has come below elevated scrutiny after one in all its workers was caught tweeting anti-white feedback on-line.
Open the Books, a authorities spending accountability group, helped uncover Variety, Fairness and Inclusion (DEI) chief, Kelisa Wing, who revealed a string of racist tweets and has a historical past of selling her personal vital race theory-themed books.
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Open The Books mentioned found Wing pushed “radical ideologies premised on Marxist and Essential Race Idea frames; questionable ethics; substantial conflicts of curiosity; and even aspect companies.”
In her tweets, Wing mentioned she was “exhausted by white folx” and blasted “caudacity,” a slang time period for boldness amongst white folks.
“[T]his girl really had the CAUdacity to say that black folks might be racist too…” she tweeted. “I needed to cease the session and provides Karen the BUSINESS… [W]e should not the bulk, we don’t have energy.”
Lawmakers raised questions on Wing throughout a listening to final week. U.S. Rep. Elise Stefanik, R-N.Y., peppered Gilbert Cisneros, the Division of Protection’s (DoD) Beneath Secretary of Protection for Personnel and Readiness, with questions throughout the listening to, however he had few solutions.
“Have you ever learn Kelisa Wing’s books, titled ‘What’s White Privilege?,’ ‘What Does it Imply to Defund the Police?,’ and ‘What’s the Black Lives Matter Motion?’” Stefanik requested. “Are you conscious that these books are in DoDEA’s Ok-12 faculties all through the nation?”
Cisneros mentioned no to each questions. He did say the DOD doesn’t condone Wing’s tweet.
Wing has been faraway from her involvement with navy faculties however was not fired.
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“I’ll take it consequently that we delivered,” Stefanik mentioned. “She ought to have been fired fully, however she was a minimum of moved someplace else, not coping with our children’ instructional programs.”
Critics mentioned Wing’s scandal and removing is only the start. For now, it highlights an ongoing battle over the function of federal funding for controversial fairness initiatives, particularly when federal businesses are combating their major tasks.
“It took a number of investigations from us and a number of hearings from Congress to lastly get some solutions and a few motion from the Division of Protection,” Adam Andrzejewski, Open The Books CEO, mentioned. “Sadly, there are nonetheless excellent questions for the Pentagon, together with whether or not they plan to remove the function or discover a alternative for Wing. The DoD additionally ought to account for the way a lot public cash is being spent on DEI materials and trainings all throughout the Protection Division.”
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