\u2018Diversity is our strength\u2019 is the \u2018dumbest phrase\u2019 in military history \u2013 Pentagon chief<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/blockquote>\nLast month, Hegseth announced new personnel standards for the military, insisting on “male-level”<\/em> fitness requirements to be able to face “life and death”<\/em> situations on the battlefield. “Standards must be uniform, gender-neutral, and high. If not, they’re not standards,”<\/em> he said at the time, arguing that any other approach would “get our sons and daughters killed.”<\/em><\/p>\nIn February, the secretary of war also dismissed the motto “diversity is our strength”<\/em> as the “dumbest”<\/em> in military history. The Pentagon has faced recruitment shortages for years. 2023 marked the military’s deepest recruitment gap – of 15,000 – since the abolishing of the draft in 1973, according to a report in June.<\/p>\nRepublican lawmakers previously blamed the problem on the department’s prioritization of diversity over military readiness, which allegedly drove would-be recruits away. A 2021 report commissioned by Republicans on the Senate Armed Services Committee found that the US Navy was focusing more on “wokeness”<\/em> and diversity than winning wars.<\/p>\nNetflix has not responded to Entertainment Weekly’s request for comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Army standards are \u201cuniform and sex neutral,\u201d a spokeswoman for the Department of War has said The Pentagon has accused Netflix of producing “woke garbage,” over the streaming service’s latest show centered around a gay man joining the US Marines. The series premiered amid a campaign by President Donald Trump…<\/p>\n
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