A commander of a U.S. Space Force unit tasked with detecting ballistic missile launches has been fired for comments made during a podcast promoting his new book, which claims Marxist ideologies are becoming prevalent in the United States military.
Lt Col. Matthew Lohmeier, commander of 11th Space Warning Squadron at Buckley Air Force Base, Colorado, was relieved from his post Friday by Lt. Gen. Stephen Whiting, the head of Space Operations Command, over a loss of confidence in his ability to lead, Military.com has exclusively learned.[…]
Lohmeier sat down last week with L. Todd Wood of the podcast “Information Operation,” hosted by Creative Destruction, or CD, Media, to promote the book. He spoke about U.S. institutions, including universities, media and federal agencies including the military, that he said are increasingly adopting leftist practices. These practices — such as diversity and inclusion training — are the systemic cause for the divisive climate across America today, he said.
From his perspective as a commander, Lohmeier said he didn’t seek to criticize any particular senior leader or publicly identify troops within the book. Rather, he said, he focused on the policies service members now have to adhere to to align with certain agendas “that are now affecting our culture.”
Regarding Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, he said, “I don’t demonize the man, but I want to make it clear to both him and every service member this [diversity and inclusion] agenda, it will divide us, it will not unify us.”
You can still order his book though Marxistzon has pulled it from the searchable listings: Irresistible Revolution: Marxism’s Goal of Conquest & the Unmaking of the American Military. The hardcover has sold out.
I have a suspicion that a purging is taking place. This one is pretty well in your face while in Canada accusations of a sexual nature does the same thing, guilty or not. I bet dollars to donuts another accusation will occur in the higher levels of our military.
Our government politicians are a huge problem in allowing accusations to sink a life long career and they may never have met the person in their life as one of the Military Officers claimed. And yet the media can fabrication of an opinion can be taken as facts now or keep at this same accusation for years. Going back at it on a slow news cycle when bored.
Go figure.
(Dollars to doughnuts odds are not the same as what they used to be ….)
I dare say, they would have sacked him anyway, being a President Trump appointee; and I can’t help thinking he understandably didn’t want to work under the Biden/Harris maladministration, so posted that tweet deliberately…
I’m also a tad peeved by book-writers formerly in high security positions… I worked in high security areas, and I just can’t warm to the idea of anyone writing about them like this, even if it’s to expose injustice, malfeasance, treason or incompetence… In many of these cases, and even if the books do accurately and properly expose such sins, they’re often also the fruits or means of revenge, or (worse to me) levers for financial or other gain…
There is a difference between writing about confidential or secret information like “we are listening to that bad guys phone and email,” and writing about publicly known information and policies like “Critical Race Theory says whitey is racist,” or many women cannot pass the Army Physical Fitness Test.
At least a book by an named author is better that the typical back stabbing, anonymous, unnamed experts leaking a hatchet job to the New York Slimes.
Communism on the march.
Remember Stalin’s big purge of his military, when it was, who helped him decide he had to do it and the results?
Ian
Remember too, when war came knocking at his front door. He had no (military) leadership in his armed forces and boy it it cost him.
Can you say Biden & China.
The remake of RED DAWN is looking less and less like fantasy. One no longer needs to suspend their disbelief.
Yeah, he had most of his generals that won the war, killed, simply because they were independent thinkers that honed their skills in actual battle.
Critical race theory is divisive garbage with a fancy name.
It is one of several prongs of attack on western culture and individual liberty and its a declaration of race war.
Know that any person or institution accepting and adhering to it is your enemy and either wants you subjugated or dead.
“this [diversity and inclusion] agenda, it will divide us, it will not unify us.”
Yes. But that’s a feature, not a bug. The goal is to separate those who are for the Prog agenda from those who are against it.
Nothing says “we welcome a diverse set of viewpoints in discussing this issue” better than silencing anybody who doesn’t agree with the official position.
On a related Canadian matter
https://www.ctvnews.ca/politics/maj-gen-dany-fortin-facing-historical-sexual-misconduct-allegation-ctv-news-sources-1.5430554
The bit I like is the following non-satirical statement from the Prime Minister’s Office “as women and men in the Canadian Armed Forces continue to come forward, we know there is much more work to do to make sure everyone has a safe workplace.”
The Canadian Army is a safe caring workplace. I wonder what its purpose is.
A safe, caring workplace. Period. Collect a paycheck and a pension. Don’t have to do the private sector thingy, with all the risks and costs. Simple. A token “National Defense” thingy. They show up in a natty uniform at the appointed time. Show the flag bullshit. Retire at 45 or so. The only “wars” they’ll plan for are food riots, or vaccination enforcement.
New Wurld Ordery stuff.
What your agent tell you a few days ago?
https://www.smalldeadanimals.com/2021/05/13/truinnerashuvaduprezure-11/#comment-1444376
“BARR: ‘Wokeness’ In The Armed Forces Is Undermining Our War-fighting Ability”
https://dailycaller.com/2021/05/17/barr-wokeness-armed-forces-undermining-war-fighting-ability-lloyd-austin/
The brass wearing military are so out of this world, its possible that if there broke a war, they would question every damn action decided on strictly war matters.
It would seem the idiot generals would count it there is adequate component from every race, men and women, every continent, every country.
They are so deep into their bullshit they can’t get out if they tried.
They need the extra star on their shoulders and they are gonna get it if they have to lose a war.
It must be said though it is after the low life politicians directions and general collapse of morale.
If there is any sense of balance left it probably resides with the foot soldier if the generals did not have time to corrupt them yet.
As it appears today, the American military will be first at the finish line into communism.
There is somewhat of a precedent to homosexualizing military. In Sparta, the soldiers were encouraged into homosexuality, the philosophy being that the soldiers would watch over each other in battle because of love of one another.
Sex with women was strictly a reproductive proposition.
Lt. Gen. Stephen Whiting CAN’T HANDLE THE TRUTH!