Our friend Frank Gaffney [with Center for Security Policy] recently reminded us that the Senate’s recess is over and its post-recess agenda includes the nomination of General C.Q. Brown to be America’s top military officer. As we’ve documented in numerous articles Brown would be a disaster as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, where he would be in a position to use the cultural Marxist doctrine of Diversity, Inclusion and Equity (DIE) to destroy all the services in the same way he has used it to destroy the readiness and meritocracy of the Air Force.
Here are five reasons he should be rejected:
First, with him as the Air Force’s Chief of Staff, its strength has declined from “marginal” to “very weak” – grounds for termination, not promotion.
Second, Gen. Brown embraces the cultural Marxist agenda of Critical Race Theory and Diversity, Equity and Inclusion. It’s destroying America’s armed forces.
Third, on his watch, the Air Force Academy has indoctrinated his service’s future leaders with that anti-American, racist and divisive ideology.
Fourth, Gen. Brown is a former fighter pilot, but not the warrior commander we need at the moment.
And fifth, that’s imperative because Communist China is preparing for war. Our troops must do the same, starting with the rejection of General Brown.
We suspect most readers see Gen. Brown’s race obsession in the same light as the Supreme Court saw race-based college admissions when it found that such racial preferences and discrimination against ANY race, including Whites and Asians, was unconstitutional and contrary to the 14th Amendment.
However, Gen. Brown’s unconstitutional race-obsessed management of the Air Force has had a real impact on national security, and not for the better.
“As seen in The Heritage Foundation’s 2023 Index of U.S. Military Strength, the Air Force is the weakest of all branches of the U.S. military and was downgraded in 2023 from its previous score of ‘weak’ to ‘very weak’ due to ‘the deepening of previously assessed issues related to aging aircraft and very poor pilot training and retention’ and noted that ‘the USAF would struggle greatly against a peer competitor.”
Despite promises by Gen. Brown to make Air Force flight proficiency and safety standards a priority, these standards have decreased. The readiness of all variants of F-35 aircraft has cratered below 60%, dropping by 11 percentage points in 2022 alone.
