‘By promoting diversity over fighting ability the Army is alienating its warriors
THE “diversity” revolution that Lieutenant General David Morrison inflicted on the Australian Army now threatens to diminish our war fighting capability…
“The typical Defence hero is a hero in uniform from an Anglo-Australian background who performs acts of bravery in battle and models the values of courage and sacrifice… This type of hero is unnecessarily exclusive and works against the desire for Defence ‘to represent the community it serves’,” writes education academic Dr Elizabeth Thomson in her 2014 report: “Battling with words”.
“Casual conversation in Defence is dominated by the kind of talk characteristic of the Aussie bloke… “Humour, banter, practical jokes and nicknaming are language practices (which) marginalise and exclude people (and must be) controlled”
If all this sounds frighteningly Orwellian, you ain’t seen nothing yet….’
Five years after the former Army chief and former Sex Discrimination Commissioner Liz Broderick launched a social engineering experiment aimed at stamping out the male “Anglo Saxon” warrior culture, the troops are unimpressed.
The top brass might have drunk the feminist Koolaid of “Pathway to Change” and its mutant offshoots, but most of the people they command are sceptical about gender fluidity, appeasement of radical Islam, and promotion by chromosome as payback for 116 years of military patriarchy.
“People just think it’s crap,” said one young officer.
To overcome such common sense thinking, diversity experts have designed a $30,000 program effectively to brainwash young leaders in the Army to become “champions of change” and stamp out the “white Anglo-Saxon male” culture they are told no longer has a place in the military.
In October, a handpicked group was taken to Sydney and Canberra for the “Junior Leaders Shaping Future Army”, and subjected to five-days of diversity indoctrination.
On day one was a three-hour session from an imam explaining his “Islamic conversion testimony” and proselytising the benefits of Islam, according to one participant who took detailed notes.
The lecture went down so badly that a planned mosque visit on the schedule the next day was cancelled without explanation.
Gender diversity expert Professor Robert Wood introduced the latest politically correct inanity, “unconscious bias”, and criticised the predominance of “Anglo-Saxon males” and the “banter culture” of the Army.
The next day Qantas diversity and inclusion manager Zak Hammer spruiked the airline’s same sex marriage campaign and LGBTI network for staff.
“Gender diversity no longer refers to male and female, because there are people within our community now who don’t identify with these,” one presenter told them.
In one exercise they were asked how they would “inclusively” manage a diversity scenario in which a digger under their command converts to Islam, requiring him to pray five times a day, eat halal food and fast at Ramadan.
“I felt like I was sitting in a North Korean indoctrination camp,” recalls one insider.
“Concepts such as bias and unconscious bias have been constantly harped on to try and change the way we think and speak. The soldiers are hating it.”
“It was an extreme politically correct environment for people who are dead set into war fighting,” said another participant.
A psychologist classified the students as “champions” or “skeptics”. However, in the Army, “champ” is an insult. “It’s the worst thing you can call someone. It means you’re a d—head.”
The ADF’s diversity orthodoxy decries a military comprising mainly “males of Anglo-Australian background”, Christians and “third-generation-plus” Australian.
“Such a demographic profile is no longer desirable or sustainable”, says one of the ludicrous diversity reports which now clog the minds and in-trays of generals.
“The typical Defence hero is a hero in uniform from an Anglo-Australian background who performs acts of bravery in battle and models the values of courage and sacrifice… This type of hero is unnecessarily exclusive and works against the desire for Defence ‘to represent the community it serves’,” writes education academic Dr Elizabeth Thomson in her 2014 report: “Battling with words”.
“Casual conversation in Defence is dominated by the kind of talk characteristic of the Aussie bloke… “Humour, banter, practical jokes and nicknaming are language practices (which) marginalise and exclude people (and must be) controlled”
If all this sounds frighteningly Orwellian, you ain’t seen nothing yet.
Defence Force Recruiting is where crackpot theory first meets reality and Army chief Lt Gen Angus Campbell is frustrated with the slow progress to achieve his goal of doubling the proportion of women from 12 to 25 per cent.
In a speech to recruitment officers last August he criticised an unnamed dissident who had informed Defence Force Chief Mark Binskin’s “Gender Adviser”, Julie McKay, that he would resist diversity targets because he “needed to protect the Army from Canberra”.
“You need to understand that I will have no humour if my directions are ignored,” Campbell told the recruiters. “The number one priority I have with respect to recruitment is increasing our diversity.”
Since Campbell’s rocket, Defence Force Recruiting has pulled out all stops to entice women into the Army. One whistleblower says they run “female only information sessions, female only fitness assessments, female only job assessment days, have a dedicated female Specialist Recruitment Team… (and) free fitness training.”
Female recruits can ask to be posted with friends and to a location of their choice, and are offered reduced periods of service — one year while men have to serve at least four.
“Defence Force Recruiting has stopped males joining particular jobs which are open only to females,” he says. “Infantry, artillery, key jobs. Where does it stop?”
There is a new program at Kapooka for female recruits too out of shape to pass basic fitness requirements of eight push ups, 45 sit ups, and 7.5 on the Beep test. The Army Pre-Conditioning Program for unfit women offers seven weeks of intensive physical training, yet by the end almost half still flunk the entry test.
Women comprise 12 per cent of the Army, yet Broderick’s goal is 35 per cent of senior positions to be filled by women, so females have a three times better chance of promotion.
Army hasn’t met recruitment goals for ten years, and the exodus of men disillusioned about their promotion prospects won’t help.
At a time when our Army is being called on to step up the war against Islamic State, the deleterious effect of social engineering is clear.
As one former soldier puts it: “They’re messing with our war-fighting DNA”
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Rope. Rope. Rope. Rope….
Rope would be too good for these unspeakable vermin.
I managed to fix the problem with the “read more” tag, Pascal. Somehow a box in the settings page had become un-ticked.
I intended for there to be a triple entendre in the rope chant KG. I agree that by itself it’s too good, but there’s a delightful thought process that maybe I’m only aware of. And it’s too late for me to lay it out. So let me suggest you let your mind play with the thought. And keep in mind that old expression about giving your opponents enough rope to play with. Rope. Rope. Rope. Rope…. Maybe add a Suicide! after every 4 or 5 rope. You’ll begin to see the picture of what I recognize as the choices.
Had I known where to find a read more tag I’d have used it for my guest post.
Found it and added one. Thanks.
It’s a wonder with this PC bullshit the brass are pushing that Fratricide isn’t more popular.
What the academic clown quoted in the intro doesn’t realise is that men very seldom fight for their country.
What they fight for is the comrade at their shoulder, for their regiment and for their own self-worth as a man.
The comradeship, mateship, the banter and the whole ethos of the warrior culture cannot include women as equals.
A man is defined by his courage and integrity and while women have their own versions of those things, theirs is not transferable to the male domain.
War is rightly the business of men.
Aye, Mate! “We few, we happy few, WE BAND OF BROTHERS…”
Div-ersity. Div-e means to no longer be on land. Div-ision means the opposite of unity. Unity means strength, div-ision means weakness. How can people be so stupid as to think diversity is good. You want a team going in the same direction. If not you have people pushing all sorts of different directions.
Exactly.
Painful to read. The village idiot is excluded from important institutions and decision making. Now that’s not inclusive so it’s village idiots to help run things and whose feelings must be protected.
Traditionally the weak, the timorous, the feeble minded, the sexually confused, or the passive were excluded from the military as a matter of common sense.
Now every bleeping Western institution or nation is expected to embrace the vipers who will destroy it. Preservation of what works is abandoned in favor of poisonous and fatuous experimentation. Listen to the rustle of skirts which approaches a full roar now.
I’ve seen a few horror movies in my time but no sight has been more terrifying than the picture of those four female tee hee defense ministers. OK, the most terrifying sight ever has been to see Obama doing his silky pony dismount from Air Force One. We’re talking living, Steven King nightmare now.
I think we are living the last chapter of ATLAS SHRUGGED where the world has fallen to planetary socialism that causes civilizational collapse.
The upside is that John Galt may have appeared in the person of Donald Trump.
Great cultural reference there Ronbo.
And this is what would’ve happened had Rand let her titan John Galt be killed like she did to her worthy but simply normal and loyal men like Eddie Willers and Cheryl Taggert. We are a far cry from being out of the woods yet.
We are for sure. Socialism was spawned and prospered in the context of astonishing technical progress and consequent economic surplus. Its fundamental human, political, and economic errors were papered over by the rising tide of prosperity.
Debt became the magic wand to keep the party going as ever higher taxes, crippling regulations, and lunatic trade policies took their toll. Now the budget is more and more eaten up debt service and no end or diminution in sight. None.
This March in the U.S. there will be another “battle” over raising the debt ceiling. Spoiler alert: it will be raised. Entitlement reform? Zero. Steady as she goes for socialist lunacy.
I had once regret about Hillary’s losing the election. Four or eight more years of Democrat stupidity would have been catastrophic and no one would had any doubt that it was the left that has brought this all down.
God knows what damage she would have done in the process of teaching this lesson so hooray Trump. Bottom line. Which raises the point whether Trump has a deep grasp of socialism and the necessity of coercion to bring it about and sustain it. An economic collapse in the near future will be especially educational if he can make the case for liberty, decentralization, nationalism, deregulation, and throwing out every damn illegal in the country. The media focus just now is on “criminal aliens” as though that were the sum total of our problems. It’s @#$%& aliens and it’s not a safety issue it’s a “get the hell out of our country” issue.
Trump may have the same plan for illegals I do.Deporting them is bad optics,it’s also labor intensive and expensive to do.
However,the better,more effective plan is simply going after the people who hire them.Many people already have a low opinion of big business,so seeing MegaGlobalShister Inc. getting raided and fined millions for all the illegals they have on payroll will only increase Trump’s popularity.
The bonus here is,it’s already federal law,settled law as well,so no need to even go to congress or deal with the rabid media.All he has to do is enforce the law as it is already written.
Yes indeed. Attrition works fine. All that’s needed is to go after employers and in every other way pull the welcome mat back in. Instead we treat illegals like visiting royalty.
The open borders types dishonestly proceed on the premise that deportation can only take place by loading screaming infants and hysterical mother’s onto school buses and cattle cars.
From Breitbart, just now:
‘Pelosi: Barring Illegals from Citizenship Is ‘Just Not Respectful, Not Worthy of Our Country’..’
What meds is this fool on?
In 1945 (as I recall) 8 highly decorated officers in the RAAF sought to resign their commissions to protest the useless HQ management of the airforce. It was centered on Morotai. That attitude may still lurk within the military if the push becomes a shove.
Looking at the shame of Sandakan one could be excused for thinking the the Australian HQ has consistently been of a lower standard than many of the men in the front line.
Lolz
Ya’ll know I’m a fan of the old school. Still think it should be done like it was done back in the day….
https://www.awm.gov.au/atwar/structure/awas/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_women_during_World_War_II
The women should have their own battalions with their own chain of command.
What you old boys think???
Nah Jamie, sorry but no. Good on those women but we live in very different times now. Those good old girls understood War as it was in those days. My parents were directly involved in WW2. and they suffered accordingly. They have both died now but if they were still alive I know that they would not understand how our enemy has changed. Islam was not on their radar.
Here ya go, Jamie and Mara – a sensible solution:
‘The Israeli approach to women in combat
‘…In 2000, the IDF sought to partially alleviate this problem with the formation of the Caracal battalion, the IDF’s first all-female infantry unit. The creation of the battalion killed several birds with one proverbial stone. It provided additional troops for the border security mission, took pressure off the IDF to integrate women more fully into the ground forces, and provided a long-term practical testing ground for the viability of female infantry. The results are now in. Limited line of communication and security missions yes; full scale combat no…’
http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2017/02/the_israeli_approach_to_women_in_combat_.html
“The women should have their own battalions with their own chain of command.
What you old boys think???”
This is a suggestion I made back in the 1970s when I served in the U.S. Army in Augsburg, Germany: Female only BATTALIONS OF DEATH I called them and there would be 52 of them.
My plan was based on biology – As is well known, when women bunk together their cycles are set by the alpha female.
Thus every week of the year there would be 1,500 man hating females ready to tear apart any male enemy of Uncle Sam!
I’m still waiting for the Pentagon to get back to me.
“This is a suggestion I made back in the 1970s when I served in the U.S. Army in Augsburg, Germany: Female only BATTALIONS OF DEATH” Rondo
Lolz
Guess the gold braid knew and knows better