An Officer Dissents On ‘Woke Military’

I’ve read you with interest since your BeliefNet days. I’ve always appreciated your insights even if I disagreed, and broadly shared you outlook and sensibilities pretty closely. But I have to write to give you a perspective you perhaps have gotten little of, because on one topic I’ve been ever more perplexed at what you’re describing: the seemingly wokening U.S. military.

I’m an active-duty military officer who’s served at home and across the world in division-level headquarters and higher, with special operations teams, and in the Pentagon. I’m not important or a policymaker, but am close enough to see what the world looks like from the top of the military hierarchy, and have been able to see what the military has been like over the past several years from the top, middle, and bottom.

And, well, the woke-ization of the military you’ve been describing more and more just doesn’t exist.