Quote:The Navy, which would be our bulwark in a war with China, more closely resembles a welfare program for defense contractors than a military service.

When combat readiness gets so bad that a liberal Democrat notices, you have problems.

The commander of the Pacific Fleet is saying that his fleet is under maximum stress. As my long-time acquaintance “cdrsalamander” points out, we are at peace. What happens if shooting starts.

The service has created a Diversity, Inclusion, and Equity office in the Pentagon to make sure the correct gender and melanin levels are available in the right places. Women are being pushed into the combat arms in the Army and Marines. They were put there not because of manpower (yes, I said it) shortages but because some hyper woke general officers decided they didn’t care about combat effectiveness or young men and women needlessly dying as much as they cared about being woke. The lie we were forced to parrot was that women would meet the same physical standard for a position as the men. It isn’t true. It was never true.