Lt. Col. Matthew Lohmeier, cashiered from his Space Force command for opposing DEI policies, and author of Irresistible Revolution: Marxism’s Goal of Conquest & the Unmaking of the American Military, is now the 29th Under Secretary of the U.S. Air Force. Lohmeier’s comeback recalls the left’s long march against the U.S. military, and shows what it will take to make the nation a winner again.
The only time the left fully supported the American military was during the alliance with the Soviet Union during the latter part of WWII. During the Stalin-Hitler Pact, from August 1939 to June 1941, the Communist Party and its front groups picketed the White House, and called Roosevelt a warmonger. The left opposed aid to Britain and spearheaded strikes at defense industries such as North American Aviation in Inglewood, California. Roosevelt ordered the Secretary of War to take over and operate the plant.
After Hitler invaded the USSR, the Communist Party and its front groups became the most patriotic and pro-war organization in the country. CPUSA writers penned pro-war movies such as Destination Tokyo (Albert Maltz), Action in the North Atlantic (John Howard Lawson) and Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo, by Dalton Trumbo. The left’s support ended after the Allied victory, when Stalin’s war against the West had just begun.
In 1950, Stalin greenlighted Kim Il Sung’s invasion of South Korea. According to The Hidden History of the Korean War, the USA and South Korea were the aggressors. That was the official Soviet position, no surprise from author I.F. Stone, a Soviet agent who took money from the KGB.
In Vietnam, the American left was not “anti-war” but a partisan force for the Communists. “Ho, Ho, Ho, Ho Chi Minh,” leftists chanted “the NLF (National Liberation Front) is gonna win.” As the left maintained, the NLF were nationalists, not Communists, and if they won there would be no bloodbath, no Stalinist dictatorship, and no refugees.
At the Second Thoughts Conference staged by David Horowitz in 1987, prominent former leftists explained how that was all wrong. David’s Center for the Study of Popular Culture, forerunner to the Freedom Center, aided the Los Angeles production of “Welcome Home Soldier,” dramatizing the abuse endured by American soldiers upon their return from Vietnam.
For the left the US military remained an evil force but one inherent feature caught the left’s attention. The military’s command structure could be exploited to force though policies the left favored. A prime mover was Colorado Democrat Pat Schroeder, whose quest to “desexegrate” the military would put women in front-line combat and flying the F-14 fighter. At Heterodoxy, forerunner to Frontpage, we tackled these issues head-on.
The Grumman F-14 Tomcat dates from the 1960s and its gear was not designed for female pilots. The F-14 was first deployed in 1974 and by the 1990s its technology was dated. As two top-gun trainers from Miramar Naval Air Station told this writer, the Tomcat is difficult to fly and land. The Navy pilot must be able to land the F-14 on a carrier day and night, in all kinds of weather. On October 25, 1994, in her first attempt to land the F-14 on a carrier, Lt. Kara Hultgreen crashed the aircraft into the ocean and killed herself. See “Dancing with the Elephant,” Heterodoxy, March/April, 1995.
The push to deploy women in front-line combat led to the lowering of standards and devastated morale. See “Booty Camp,” Heterodoxy, April/May, 1997. In the new century, this would ramp up under composite character president Obama out to fundamentally transform the USA. Early in his first term, he canceled missile defense for US allies Poland and the Czech Republic but it wasn’t only about them. In 2012, the composite character told Dimitry Medvedev he would have “more flexibility” on missile defense after the election.
To all but the willfully blind, Iran’s cry of “Death to America” was a declaration of war, but the composite character shipped planeloads of cash to the Islamic regime, and looked the other way at their nuclear threat. On the domestic front, America’s military was another place to impose the DEI policies that, in classic Marxist style, divide people into oppressor and victim classes.
Former Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman Gen. Mark Milley, an advocate of critical race theory, deployed himself against “whiteness and white rage.” Gen. Milley also said he would notify China in the event of an American attack. Waxworks effigy of a president Joe Biden allowed China to fly a balloon over the United States surveilling strategic military bases. No American president every allowed the Soviet Union to do that.
The Delaware Democrat also fired members of the military for refusing the vaccines that failed to prevent infection or transmission of Covid. The Delaware Democrat presided over a surrender in Afghanistan, leaving billions in advanced weaponry for the Taliban. That prompted Fort Hood mass murderer Nidal Hasan to cry “We have won!” In fundamentally transformed America, the military was never to be seen as victorious. The enemy was the Democrats’ domestic opposition, so free expression had to be opposed.
“Is systemic racism a reality, or is much of our talk about race merely a rhetorical tool used to divide Americans?” wondered Lt. Col Matthew Lohmeier. “Why has the Defense Department suddenly shifted to a focus on extremism within the ranks? Is there really a white supremacy or white nationalist problem within our armed forces? Are the many diversity and inclusion trainings that are being conducted in our federal agencies helping solve these problems, or are they creating conflict where none previously existed?” They were indeed creating conflict, and the Pentagon couldn’t stand the truth.
On May 14, 2021, Lt. Gen. Stephen Whiting, head of Space Operations Command, removed Lt. Col. Lohmeier from his command post at Buckley Air Force Base. Lohmeier, author of The Better Mind of Space, from Air University Press, opted to “continue serving my country out of uniform.” Lohmeier’s Air Force appointment helps repair the damage, but the nation has a long way to go.
As Angelo Codevilla explained in Informing Statecraft: Intelligence for a New Century (1992), wars can be won or lost on the basis of intelligence and counterintelligence, both degraded after the firing of counterintelligence expert James Angleton in 1974. From 1968 to 1984, John Walker and family associates sold to the Soviet Union the operating manuals of the U.S. Navy’s best code machines, together with volumes of daily settings. “Yet for 16 years,” Codevilla recalled, “US counterintelligence had not a hint of this potentially mortal hemorrhage.” With reliance on technical intelligence collection, the CIA “did not see hundreds of millions of people ready to overthrow the communist world.” (italics original)
In 1980, the CIA hired Gus Hall voter John Brennan, who never should have got in the door. Brennan believed that Islamic jihad was a “holy struggle in pursuit of a moral goal,” and “violence and jihad not necessarily synonymous.” So no surprise that, as Brennan explained in Undaunted: My Fight Against America’s Enemies, at Home and Abroad, the CIA had not the slightest clue about the massive attack of September 11, 2001. With secretive agencies, things are always worse than they seem.
As former CIA analyst John Gentry explained in Neutering the CIA: Why US Intelligence Versus Trump Has Long-Term Consequences, the CIA and NSA feature the following employee resource groups: AA – African American, AAPI – Asian American Pacific Islander, AIAN – American Indian Alaska Native, AV – American Veteran, ESL – English as a Second Language, HLAT – Hispanic-Latino, IC – Islamic Culture, NG – Next Gen, PRIDE – Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, PWD – people with disabilities, and W – Woman.
No surprise that such a DEI madrassa should sign on to the Russia hoax. Susan Miller, allegedly a CIA counterintelligence official, promotes the hoax to this day. A CIA that fights enemies “at home” is not to be trusted. A ballpark figure for the number of CIA officials in the loop on the recent attack on Iran’s nuclear facilities is zero.
Angelo Codevilla wondered “why are Clapper and Brennan not in jail” and cited the need to break up the CIA, reform the FBI and abolish FISA. While John Ratcliffe investigates and reforms await, a few realities should be clear.
The sole purpose of the US military is to fight and win wars. To divide soldiers against themselves degrades morale and weakens the force. To engage any foe with less than the very best, leaves two choices: bluff or fold. Neither is acceptable in today’s dangerous world, bristling with Stalinist regimes and genocidal jihadists in pursuit of nuclear weapons.
“In war there is no substitute for victory,” said.Gen. Douglas MacArthur, and as legendary football coach Vince Lombardi put it, “winning isn’t everything, it’s the only thing.” Let that be the creed moving forward.
