Our very accomplished alchoholic and mediocre DOD leader says DIVERSITY IS OUR STRENGTH is the dumbest military statement ever. He should tell that to the Japanese Americans army unit in WW2 the most decorated unit in the war. Or the Navajo indian code talkers or even the freed slaves from the civil war. Because we fight and die together in battle and mourn our losses together ads true brothers and sisters See ST CRISPIAN's speech is what unites this country in peacetime. Black soldiers who fought in WW2 and Korea came home and said to hell with segregation even though they did not get the benefits of the GI bill and the civil rights movement was alive. Diversityin the military is our greatest strength because it is what makes one nation
"The fewer men, the greater share of honor." Love this scene. Gets my Anglo-Saxon blood burning! P.S. If you look close, young Christian Bale.
I think you are missing the corollary to Secretary Hegseth's thesis on this topic. First, you are missing a key word: the expression was "Diversity is our greatest strength." Second, his riposte to that is, "Our unity is our greatest strength." That second point does not contradict anything you wrote above about the contributions all kinds of Americans, united in a common purpose. Also, pointing out that diversity is not, in fact, our greatest strength, does not mean that diversity is intrinsically bad or that it is a weakness. Diversity is simply an environmental factor of a diverse population, and, yes, it has to be managed to achieve unity of purpose and effort. That has always been so. A segregated armed force was less effective than an integrated one is. World War I, sadly, served as laboratory for "diversity" versus "unity." Arguably, the most "diverse" army was Austria-Hungary with units separated by ethnic group. In some cases, units had to use English, of all languages, as a lingua franca to communicate with adjacent units who spoke German, Czech, Croatian, etc. The army and the country itself had no sense of unity, and it might have been the most ineffective great power in the war. The United Kingdom [emphasis added], however, had as many different racial groups as any other participating country and had by far the most integrated units of the day. There was no question about its sense of unity in purpose and effort, and at the end of the war no other country, not even the United States, was fighting as well in the field as the British were. I won't address your other attacks on Hegseth's character, but on this particular topic he has a strong point.
Eh, Hegseth may be a lot of things politically, but he did serve honorably in a combat zone. He probably had a rear job in the Middle East war zone, but he was still there unlike Commander McBonespurs.
(shrugs) I have often wished that Congress would specify the minimum, common-sense qualifications for each Cabinet member, for federal judges, for ambassadors, etc. For instance, if it was up to me, then Secretaries of Defense must have retired at least at the rank of O5, have graduated from senior service college (War College), have been retired for at least five years, and have at least three years of experience in the private defense industry. But the only way that would happen is during the rare periods when one party controls the White House and both Houses of Congress, and during periods such as those, the majority party is reluctant to tie the hands of its own President. In 2021, for instance, President Biden and the Democrats in Congress could have passed laws laying out such qualifications. But they did not. And I doubt they will next time.
Lol... All those peoples you mentioned worked their azzez off to achieve the greatness they were allowed to achieve in the U.S.A. The earned it... MERITOCRACY... How dare you soil their accomplishments with your derogatory insults of their past achievements.
They were allowed to achieve? So I guess they should thank their great white massas for allowing them to serve
