Chairman of Joint Chiefs of Staff Has Something to Say About Military Labeled ‘Woke’ – Watch
General Mark Milley, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, spoke on Sunday with CNN’s Fareed Zakaria, who stated, “You talk about how the military is not woke. How the military officers should be reading Karl Marx,” then asked, “Is the U.S. military too woke?”
“No, not at all,” Milley initially responded, then continued, “You know, I’m not even sure what that word truly means.”
“But I would tell you that the military I see is a military that is exceptionally strong, it’s powerful, it’s ready,” Milley declared. “In fact, our readiness rate is — the way we measure readiness is better now than they’ve been in years.”
“This military is a lot of things, but woke it is not,” Milley claimed. “So, I take exception to that. I think that people say those things for reasons that are their own reasons. But it’s not true. It’s not accurate. And it is not to say, by the way, that there is — there is not some things out there that are — could be fit into that category. But I don’t think it certainly is — it is not a broad-brush description of the U.S. military as it exists today.”
In the past, Milley defended the reading of Critical Race Theory (CRT) texts by the United States military, saying, “I’ve read Mao Tse-Tung; I’ve read Karl Marx; I’ve read Lenin. That doesn’t make me a communist.” Milley claimed he “personally” found it “offensive that we are accusing the United States military, our general officers, our commissioned, non-commissioned officers, of being ‘woke’ because we’re studying some theories that are out there.”
Regarding “white rage,” Milley said, “But I do think it’s important actually for those of us in uniform to be open-minded and be widely read and the United States Military Academy is a university and it is important that we train and we understand, and I want to understand white rage and I’m white.”
July 2021, Senator Tom Cotton (R-AR) started by saying to Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin, “Mr. Secretary, I have received, along with Congressman Crenshaw, several hundred whistleblower complaints about Pentagon extremist and diversity training. I just want to share a small selection of what your troops are saying.”
He followed by focusing on reports of a military history training session being replaced with mandatory training on police brutality, white privilege, and systemic racism.
General Mark Milley, United States Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff: The US military is not too woke, “I don’t even know what the word means”. pic.twitter.com/puEP6vvJaz
— Mike Sington (@MikeSington) September 17, 2023
