{"id":626357,"date":"2026-06-28T00:25:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-28T00:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/?p=626357"},"modified":"2026-06-28T00:25:00","modified_gmt":"2026-06-28T00:25:00","slug":"military-depoliticization-hegseth-and-dei-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/?p=626357","title":{"rendered":"Military Depoliticization, Hegseth, And DEI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden\">Military Depoliticization, Hegseth, And DEI<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/amgreatness.com\/2026\/06\/27\/military-depoliticization-hegseth-and-dei\/\"><em>Authored by &#8216;Cynical Publius&#8217; via American Greatness,<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>As I read and hear the usual cavalcade of woke, retired Democrat generals and admirals like\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/YAppelbaum\/status\/2070294263414300967\">McRaven<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/mccaffreyr3\/status\/2069868318991974451\">McCaffrey<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/FrankenforIowa\/status\/2069970753131274633\">Franken<\/a>, and others falsely claiming that Pete Hegseth is \u201cpoliticizing\u201d the senior ranks of the U.S. military, inside my head, I am screaming in rage at the impunity with which they spread this pernicious and wholly inaccurate falsehood. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a data-image-external-href=\"\" data-image-href=\"\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/2026-06-27_10-39-42.jpg?itok=1dxU7kXb\" data-link-option=\"0\" href=\"https:\/\/cms.zerohedge.com\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/2026-06-27_10-39-42.jpg?itok=1dxU7kXb\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" data-entity-type=\"file\" data-entity-uuid=\"4315c222-706a-4f31-8c4c-686896c74e47\" data-responsive-image-style=\"inline_images\" height=\"318\" width=\"500\" class=\"inline-images image-style-inline-images\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.zerohedge.com\/s3fs-public\/styles\/inline_image_mobile\/public\/inline-images\/2026-06-27_10-39-42.jpg?itok=1dxU7kXb\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Hegseth is doing EXACTLY THE OPPOSITE as he depoliticizes our military\u2019s ranks by eradicating the very most political doctrine to ever infect the U.S. military since the U.S. Civil War: so-called \u201cDiversity, Equity, and Inclusion,\u201d or \u201cDEI.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>DEI is an expression of Marxism by way of the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Frankfurt_School\">Frankfurt School<\/a>. Instead of building Marxist systems based on economic class, the Frankfurt School\u2019s teachings build systems based on grievance classes. Known also as \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Critical_theory\">critical theory<\/a>,\u201d DEI espouses the concept that there is no such thing as objective truth, that all truth is instead subjective, and that such truth is subjectively decided by whoever is in power at the moment.<\/p>\n<p>This philosophy is in stark contrast to the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/constitutioncenter.org\/the-constitution\/full-text?gad_source=1&amp;gad_campaignid=18501713688&amp;gbraid=0AAAAADl4wpMbXU7Vv8oh7uC_yLEAZrhiS&amp;gclid=Cj0KCQjwxvjRBhC2ARIsAI7KJa0mi4aXnaefx5ew_TpxIjudjlXwadzvZG_l3dHVScNBXkx5bGCryIcaAlwwEALw_wcB\">Constitution<\/a>, which stands on the shoulders of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/iep.utm.edu\/natlaw\/\">natural law<\/a>\u2014the idea that profound truth is objective, ordained by God, and that all men are\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.archives.gov\/founding-docs\/declaration-transcript\">created equal, with certain unalienable rights<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>DEI instead claims that there is an inherent imbalance in society driven by race, ethnicity, religion, sex, and sexual preference. Since \u201ctruth\u201d is what you make of it via power, DEI uses force and power to strip individuals of autonomy and individuality in favor of their skin color or what is between their legs. DEI is a form of Marxism, and it is the ultimate expression of bigotry in modern society.<\/p>\n<p><em>(By the way, given the manner in which DEI seeks to destroy the natural law principles underpinning the Constitution, it effectively sits in defiance of the sacred oath of U.S. service members to \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.army.mil\/values\/oath.html\">support and defend the Constitution<\/a>.\u201d)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The U.S. military long had rudimentary forms of DEI in its promotion systems, with promotion board results constantly reworked to reflect the \u201ccorrect\u201d racial and gender balances. However, with the advent of DEI as a more formal, society-altering structure, under the Obama and Biden administrations, the wholly political DEI doctrine was massively forced on the military like a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/face4pets.wordpress.com\/2015\/07\/22\/how-to-reduce-your-pets-fear-of-veterinary-visits\/\">dog shoved into a car<\/a>\u00a0on its way to the veterinarian\u2019s office for neutering.<\/p>\n<p><strong>White service members were\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/cai.asu.edu\/sites\/g\/files\/litvpz1721\/files\/2024-06\/CAI%20Civic%20Education%20in%20the%20Military%20Report%20-%20Digital%20v3.pdf\">told<\/a>\u00a0they are inherently evil based solely on their skin color.<\/strong> Combat arms professions were\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.armytimes.com\/news\/your-army\/2017\/05\/21\/women-in-the-infantry-how-the-army-is-growing-its-first-female-enlisted-grunts\/\">opened<\/a>\u00a0to women who, on average, were manifestly physically unqualified to perform required duties. Pressure mounted for 18-year-old females in the barracks to be\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hawley.senate.gov\/hawley-presses-pentagon-on-transgender-housing-incident-at-missouri-military-barracks-military-readiness-is-suffering-because-of-your-progressive-social-agenda\/\">forced to live<\/a>\u00a0with biological men play-acting as women. \u201cPride\u201d\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/home.army.mil\/jackson\/5917\/1743\/9713\/EEO_Newsletter_June_2024.pdf\">celebrations<\/a>\u00a0were rampant.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/taskandpurpose.com\/news\/us-navy-reading-list-how-to-be-an-antiracist\/\">Racist DEI books<\/a>\u00a0became mandatory professional reading for officers and senior NCOs. The United States Air Force\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.af.mil\/Portals\/1\/documents\/2022SAF\/Officer_Source_of_Commission_Applicant_Pool_Goals_memo.pdf\">decided<\/a>\u00a0skin color was the basis for being an Air Force officer.<\/p>\n<p>It went so far that the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (\u201cCJCS\u201d), Mark Milley,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2021\/06\/23\/politics\/milley-diversity-pentagon-gop\">said before Congress<\/a>, \u201cI want to understand white rage. And I\u2019m white. And I want to understand it.\u201d In doing so, he racially slandered every white troop under his command (yes, I know CJCS is not a command position, but you get my drift), and the political Left and the other woke generals rejoiced.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Where we once only saw red, white, and blue and the color of our uniforms, suddenly, the only color we were allowed to see was the color of human skin.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In the field and afloat, white male commanders learned to be very circumspect in disciplining wayward black, female, or gay troops, because it was just too easy to be labeled a \u201cracist\u201d or a \u201cmisogynist\u201d or a \u201chomophobe\u201d in career-ending fashion.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Good order and discipline broke down.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Combat effectiveness declined as a result.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>All thanks to politics\u2014the politics of DEI.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>And the retired admirals and generals you hear moaning today to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Joseph_Goebbels\">Goebbelsesque<\/a>\u00a0propaganda rags like\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/national-security\/2026\/06\/mcraven-americans-deserve-answers\/687708\/\"><em>The Atlantic<\/em><\/a>? Not only did they not object, they embraced it because that is how these wholly political officers were able to advance. Now that Pete Hegseth is purging our hallowed military halls of the diseased, racist, misandrist, bigoted, hate-mongering,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Anti-Christian_sentiment\">Christophobic<\/a>, intolerant, diversity-destroying, inequitable, exclusionary, expressly\u00a0<em>political<\/em>\u00a0doctrines of DEI, these political animals are OUTRAGED. They see their\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.obamalibrary.gov\/\">Brutalist<\/a>, Marxist spiritual edifice in tatters, and they don\u2019t much like it, so they lie and say it\u2019s all \u201cpolitical.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>DEI is the worst thing that has happened to the U.S. military in any of our lifetimes. <\/strong>It was the ultimate expression of a political acid test shoved down the throats of everyone serving in a U.S. uniform. It was Marxism on a massive scale, specifically designed to polarize the ranks and make our military less combat effective.<\/p>\n<p><strong>DEI was and is an abomination.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>And Pete Hegseth has unraveled this monster in a mere two years. We are rebuilding our military on top of the ruins of the failed DEI experiment.<\/p>\n<p>In all of U.S. history, no one has done more to DEPOLITICIZE the U.S. military than Pete Hegseth.<\/p>\n<p>So, when you see the legacy media and the usual generals and admirals who would not take Douglas MacArthur\u2019s advice to just \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ruhr-uni-bochum.de\/gna\/Quellensammlung\/10\/10_generaldmacarthurfarewelladdress_1951.htm\">fade away<\/a>\u201d screeching that Hegseth is \u201cpoliticizing\u201d the military, know that they are angry only because he is doing exactly the opposite. The star-laden critical theorists are losing, and they will not go down without a fight.<\/p>\n<p>But losing they are, and so long as the 2026 and 2028 elections stay the course, they have already lost.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Do not buy the fabulistic \u201cHegseth is politicizing the military\u2019s senior ranks\u201d narrative. Exactly the opposite is true.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>      <span class=\"field field--name-uid field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden\"><a title=\"View user profile.\" href=\"https:\/\/cms.zerohedge.com\/users\/tyler-durden\" lang=\"\" class=\"username\" xml:lang=\"\">Tyler Durden<\/a><\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"field field--name-created field--type-created field--label-hidden\">Sat, 06\/27\/2026 &#8211; 20:25<\/span><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.zerohedge.com\/s3fs-public\/styles\/inline_image_mobile\/public\/inline-images\/2026-06-27_10-39-42.jpg?itok=1dxU7kXb\" title=\"Military Depoliticization, Hegseth, And DEI\" \/><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Military Depoliticization, Hegseth, And DEI Authored by &#8216;Cynical Publius&#8217; via American Greatness, As I read and hear the usual cavalcade of woke, retired Democrat generals and admirals like\u00a0McRaven,\u00a0McCaffrey,\u00a0Franken, and others falsely claiming that Pete Hegseth is \u201cpoliticizing\u201d the senior ranks of the U.S. military, inside my head, I am screaming in rage at the impunity&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/?p=626357\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Military Depoliticization, Hegseth, And DEI<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":626358,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":[],"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[18,19,10,21,12,11,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-626357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cancel-culture","category-censorship","category-civil-liberties","category-election-integrity","category-equal-justice","category-free-speech","category-religious-freedom","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626357","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=626357"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626357\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/626358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=626357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=626357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=626357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}