Fri Oct 6, 2023 – 4:23 pm EDT
WASHINGTON, D.C. (LifeSiteNews) – The Pentagon so far is not taking seriously persistent concerns about issues like COVID-19 vaccine mandates and “woke” leadership undermining the confidence of current and prospective service members in the hierarchy of the U.S. Armed Forces, according to a statement given this week in response to grievances aired at LifeSiteNews and elsewhere.
On Tuesday, LifeSite published an op-ed by Robert A. Green Jr., an active-duty commander in the United States Navy. He argued that the “ways in which our senior military leaders betrayed the trust of service members and the American people are both numerous and sordid. In nearly every major case, senior leaders circled the wagons to protect themselves and the institutions they led rather than holding individual leaders accountable.”
Cmdr. Green, speaking for himself despite potential risk of retaliation from his superiors, primarily cited two decades of a War on Terror without “clear strategic objectives or victory criteria” that resulted in more than 7,000 military deaths, a poorly-planned and executed withdrawal from Afghanistan resulting in 13 avoidable military deaths and more than $7 billion in military equipment left behind for the Taliban,
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