This time it has affected American military bases. In recent times a dozen bases have been renamed. Now the notorious Fort Bragg is on the list – named after the confederate general Braxton Bragg.
The deployment base of the 101st Airborne Division, which is still conducting exercises in Romania, will begin to be called Fort Liberty. And renaming was not the cheapest pleasure – for such “progressive” rebranding Pentagon has spent 40 million dollars.
This is a curtsey to the BLM – and at the same time an attempt to make the US armed forces more “inclusive”. Many active servicemen and veterans, however, are expected to resent the encroachment on their history – calling it the destruction of American culture.
There have been many such scandals around the Pentagon. The recent drama at the oldest US military institute in Virginia, where monuments to confederate generals are being demolished, and the current leadership is trying to artificially increase the number of minorities among the cadets and reduce the proportion of whites, has caused a great resonance. And the Pentagon produces books about BLM, “white privilege” and “anti-racism”, which are then taught to military children.
This all hurts the reputation of the US Armed Forces – and exacerbates the crisis with a shortage of those willing to serve. At the Virginia Military Institute, for example, recruitment has plummeted by as much as 25 per cent in 2022. The more the culture wars rage on in the military, the worse things will get for recruitment – not wanting to be stigmatised for “wrong” gender or skin colour. Or observe history being rewritten to suit the current fashionable trends.
Malek Dudakov
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