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Guest Post by Paul Craig Roberts

West Point Drops “Duty, Honor, Country” from Its Motto and Replaces It with “Army Values” in Its Mission Statement

Does this mean that “duty, honor, country” are no longer Army values?

Are we moving toward a military academy whose values will be transformed in keeping with the woke ideology that has taken over the universities, public schools, Democrat Party, corporations, and media? Will the academy’s values be “transgenderism, equity, and open borders”?

Time will tell.

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Guest Post by Paul Craig Roberts

Traditionally a few Southern states have provided the backbone of America’s military.  But times have changed.  Today white Southern men don’t like black female sergeants in their face.  They don’t like homosexual sergeants in their face either.  They don’t like comments from non-military friends about their officers wearing high heels and skirts.  And they have heard enough from those forced out because of refusal to take the death vaccine to know that the officers no longer stand up for the troops.

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Guest Post by Paul Craig Roberts

Dan Goure and David T. Pyne have raised valid questions about how well the US would fare in a military conflict with Russia and China. Not well they conclude. See:

https://breakingdefense.com/2021/10/with-all-eyes-on-china-us-army-must-ensure-its-prepared-to-deter-russia-in-europe/

https://nationalinterest.org/feature/counter-russia-and-china-make-‘spheres-influence’-great-again-194982

https://nationalinterest.org/feature/counter-russia-and-china-make-‘spheres-influence’-great-again-194982

Possibly the articles by Dan Goure and David T. Pyne are sincere concerns of military analysts worried about Washinton’s unrealistic hubris. Also possibly Goure and Pyne are consultants to defense firms and are lobbying for an even larger military budget. Nevertheless, both are correct that Washington is no match for Russia and China and is spread too thin in its ambitions to be a match for anyone. Nevertheless, the real military problem for the US is completely different from what they think.

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