Is the woke US military going the way of 1940’s France?

John Rossomando August 10, 2021
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Originally published by The National Interest

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America has become what France was in 1940, a paper tiger run by an impenetrable bureaucracy that lacks any strategy for decisively defeating the nation’s external enemies.

America’s woke military of 2021 has echoes of the heavily politicized French military that was routed by the Nazi Germans in 1940.

My grandmother and her family lived in the Vosges Mountains within 100 miles of the German border. Her father fought in the French Army in World War I. They lived through the German invasion and subsequent four years of occupation.

She told me about seeing French soldiers running as fast as they could to escape the German invaders, half of which had no shoes. The Luftwaffe bombed her home, Nazi soldiers paraded through her town, and a German soldier assaulted her with a rifle to her back.

Today’s increasingly bureaucratic, politicized, and visionless Pentagon faces a massive military buildup from the People’s Republic of China, not unlike that faced by France in the 1930s. The Chinese remain undeterred by the United States and its allies. Fear is gone.

China violated the pact with Great Britain that was supposed to have guaranteed Hong Kong’s autonomy until 2040 by quashing its special status and sending in troops, not unlike the German remilitarization of the Rhineland in 1936.

China persecutes its minorities not unlike the Nazis did during the 1930s.

Most historians see the Rhineland remilitarization as the first evidence that Adolf Hitler showed he could get away with aggression that led to the annexations of Austria and Czechoslovakia in 1938, and the invasions of Poland in 1939 and France in 1940.

It took four years between Hitler’s reoccupation of the Rhineland and his invasion of France. Some estimates say it could be four years before China can successfully invade Taiwan.

President Barack Obama purged 197 top generals and admirals who opposed his sociopolitical agenda, leaving his political cronies behind, not unlike what happened in France during the early 1930s when politically reliable generals like Gen. Maurice Gamelin ran the show.

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