1. The American right's turn against the military (as "woke" and beholden to CRT) is a pretty significant development, not without precedent & very specifically focused on officer class, but still something new & pregnant with meaning.https://twitter.com/Acyn/status/1408216358899183617 …
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4. It's precisely because the right sees as the military as one of their institutions, something they have possessive ownership of, that they need to police it for ideological & personnel conformity. That's the hidden logic (apologies to
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5. Desegregating the military was controversial because the right (committed to open racism at that point) thought the military belonged to him. Same with fight over open gays in military. Same now: right things military is their property so it can't be woke.
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6. Beyond the right's anxiety of losing control of institution they see as their own, there's other sources of rift: military resistance to Trump's psycho commands & coup attempts, officer class being college educated, general ranks being disproportionately POC.
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7. The most worrying factor is resentment at Milley & top ranks for their unwillingness to obey Trump as he pushed for martial law. This was crucial for the failure of his coup attempts. The goal now is to cow military so they will be more obedient to GOP POTUS in future.
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8. Defeated armies and movements think hard about causes of defeat. Right now the hard right is a defeated movement. They're thinking about what went wrong and realizing they need to cow the military. More here:https://jeetheer.substack.com/p/the-right-versus-the-military?r=bh54&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email&utm_source=twitter …
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Ok but this book was really good Jeet.https://www.amazon.ca/Psychology-Military-Incompetence-Norman-Dixon/dp/0465097804 …
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It also has echoes of the German “stabbed in the back” myth. The soldiers at the front line were bravely giving it to the Allies (and still fighting on enemy territories), but the German military leaders gave up with victory in the grasp…
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…I know the myth is more about “shadowy” forces at the home front snatching away victory but it included military leadership as well (never mind that when Luddendorff requests an armistice, it was because he knew the German army was about two weeks away from collapse).
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Mix degrees from Ohio State and Yale with time as a corporal in the Marine Corps and you get this bizarre straddle. The enlisted man's resentment of officers with the aspiration to join one of the world's most exclusive clubs.
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My distaste for the O-Corp is the double speak manipulation, “do as I say, not as I do” & “we must protect the sanctity of the rank while muddying the lower E-ranks”. As well, the pay gap isn’t commiserate with the work differential at this point, IMO.
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