HOW OBAMA IMPACTED THE MILITARY

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By Janet Levy

American Thinker [2]

Radical changes imposed on our military by progressives, begun in earnest
during the Obama administration, are negatively impacting our combat
readiness and jeopardizing the lives of our men and women in uniform and,
ultimately, our national security. In _Stand Down: How Social Justice
Warriors Are Sabotaging America's Military_, author James Hasson elucidates
how Barack Obama fundamentally changed military culture to make our nation
less secure. Hasson, a former Army captain, Army Ranger School graduate,
and Afghanistan veteran, argues that military readiness was sacrificed for
identity politics and progressive rhetoric. He lists examples such as
policies that established "safe spaces," prohibited "micro-aggressions,"
denigrated "hyper-masculine" traits, implemented unwise "green" standards
and injected "social justice" guidelines in military operations.

In his revealing book, Captain Hasson describes how Obama's military
appointees, mainly progressive ideologues lacking military experience and
hailing from academic, political, and the private sectors, were placed in
charge of seasoned combat generals with decades of combat experience. The
priorities, experience, and philosophies of the officers and appointees
couldn't have been more disparate.

Many senior military staff members suffered in silence at Obama's attempt
to use the military as a "laboratory for progressive social engineering,"
according to Hasson. Exemplifying this shift was the naming of Navy ships
after Leftist political heroes. Socialist labor-activist Cesar Chavez and
slain gay-rights advocate Harvey Milk -- who left the Navy for being gay --
were among those who Ray Mabus, Obama's secretary of the Navy, announced
would have ships named after them. This practice flew in the face of the
hallowed Navy tradition of naming ships after presidents and war heroes...

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