Actions have consequences, which in turn have further consequences. The US military puts political hacks like Mark Milley in charge, identifies white men as the primary enemy, christens a ship after an infamous child molester, and runs recruiting ads like this:

The butt-sniffing apparatchiks at the top of the command structure systematically purge the ranks of those likely to resist leftist indoctrination and follow with a purge of those unwilling to submit to an unreasonable vaccine mandate.

All this moonbattery has produced an unsurprising consequence:

The Army is reducing its total active-duty force numbers over the next several years due to recruiting difficulties — an unprecedented step, according to some military experts.

Even as foreign threats grow in seriousness, Army manpower is at its lowest level since World War II.

Senate Armed Services Committee Ranking Member Jim Inhofe (R-OK) called it “more serious than any recruiting challenge that I’ve experienced in the years that I’ve been here.”

The source of the problem has been identified:

Retired Army Lt. Gen. Thomas Spoehr, director of the Heritage Foundation’s Center for National Defense, told Breitbart News in an interview in March, “There is a sense among the American public that the military is becoming increasingly political and that topics such as race and gender equity, critical race theory, and wokeism in general are commanding more attention, at the cost of readiness.”

The good news is that what recruits the Army does get show a lot of flair when they make TikTok dance videos.

This consequence will in turn have consequences. It’s not clear what these will be, but it couldn’t hurt to learn some Chinese.

On a tip from Occam’s Stubble.

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