White House/Pentagon

The documents posted below provide background information and historic context on several Executive Branch initiatives that negatively affected readiness and morale in the military.  

2024: CMR: Why the DoD Should Drop DEI and Affirm Meritocracy in the Military - CMR (cmrlink.org) (website condensed version)

CMR Policy Analysis: Why the DoD Should Drop DEI and Affirm Meritocracy in the Military

(14 pages)

CMR Policy Analysis: NDAA for 2024: Missed Opportunities Must be Revisited

CMR: Congress Has the Power to Fix Our Military

2022-2023: In December 2022 Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin issued a Memorandum mandating generous time off and travel benefits for servicewomen seeking abortions across state lines. 

• Lloyd Austin: Memorandum: Ensuring Access to Reproductive Health Care (defense.gov)

 In response to Austin’s unilateral action Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) put a hold on group confirmation of military appointees and candidates for promotion.  Since then, Sen.Tuberville has been subjected to enormous pressure to lift his hold on group confirmations:

• CMR: Is Something Beyond Abortion Fueling Rage Against Sen. Tommy Tuberville?

 Several senators and the various service secretaries also have aimed fire at Tuberville, instead of pressuring Secretary Austin to change his position.  If Sen. Tuberville backs down on abortion subsidies, demands for free travel expenses and time off for transgender treatments military personnel seeking sex-denying treatments for adults and dependent children will be next. 

• The Daily Caller:  The Military Is Quietly Using A Little-Known Program To Enable Child Sex Changes

The woke Biden Administration has made it clear that “access” in matters of civil rights allows for nothing less:

2022: Roy/Rubio Congress Woke Military Report

CMR: Gen. Greg S. Newbold: Critical Military Theory: Classic Principles Betrayed by Critical Race Theory and “Diversity” Taken to Extremes

2021: The incoming Biden Administration wasted no time imposing Executive Orders that weakened the culture of the military with woke policies.

Wokeness is defined as progressiveness taken to extremes and imposed with coercion, even if it hurts the institution.

• CMR Policy Analysis: Biden Pentagon Quietly Expands Woke Transgender Policies in the Military (8 pages)
• CMR: Biden Pentagon Quietly Expands Woke Transgender Policies in the Military (4-Page Summary)
• CMR: Biden Presidency Begins with Injuries and Insults to the Troops
• The White House: Executive Order: Executive Order on Preventing and Combating Discrimination on the Basis of Gender Identity or Sexual Orientation
• White House: EO on Enabling All Qualified Americans to Serve Their Country in Uniform
• White House: Executive Order on Preventing and Combating Discrimination on the Basis of Gender Identity or Sexual Orientation
• CMR: Will Defense Department “Stand-Downs” Push Extremism in Pursuit of Extremists?

2017: Whitehouse.gov: Presidential Memorandum to the Secretary of Defense and Secretary of Homeland Security, Subject: Military Service by Transgender Individuals, August 25, 2017

• April 26 SASC hearing, with Mattis & Gillibrand time mark 1:16.
• CMR: Mr. President, Just Do the Right Thing on Military Transgender Policy
• CMR Special Report: Department of Defense & Military Services Should Revoke Problematic Transgender Policy Directives Directives and Instructions, July 2017, 27 pages
• Executive Summary
• CMR: Restore Military Strength and Pre-Obama Transgender Mandates
• CMR: Supreme Judicial Commanders Should not Run Our Military
• CMR: Failure to File Supreme Court Appeal Invites Judges to Run the Military

 015:    CMR: Secretary of Defense Stumbles Into Transgender Legal Morass

            Changes to MEO Policy Briefing Card

1973: Social experiments mandates ordered by the White House and/or the Department of Defense, going back to the Vietnam era, proved harmful to the military.

• Navy Department Library: U.S. Congress, House, Committee on Armed Forces, Report by the Special Subcommittee on Disciplinary Problems in the U/S Navy, 92^nd Cong., 2d Sess., 1973, H.A.S.C. 92-81
• Cory Turner, Black Past: Project 100,000 (New Standards Men)
• Hamilton Gregory Spring, The Quarterly Journal of Military History: McNamara’s Boys
• Matt Davis, Big Think:  Project 100,000: The Vietnam War’s Cruel Experiment on American Soldiers