list get this for the u.s navy taking a
far
left turn including progressive books
like how to be an anti-racist
the new jim crow and sexual minorities
and politics my next guest joined the
army in 2003 and says this sets a
dangerous precedent and politicizes
the military former ufc fighter army
ranger sniper and special forces
operator tim kennedy
joins me now tim we're both army guys
we're not going to make this an army
navy thing because we both know it could
happen in the army too
potentially in a woke pentagon what do
you make and and by the way they've
defended this reading list what do you
make of this transition away from say
teaching
you know on war by klaus wits to being
more woke
yeah i mean it's dangerous you know our
job is not to be woke
our job is not to be in politics our job
is not to be in race
our job is to win wars and to do
violence on behalf of our country and
that has nothing to do
with anything else besides lethality
so if i'm looking at military units i'm
not saying you know do i have
enough of this race do i have enough of
this gender
you know if a black guy is better at war
i'm going to take the black guy 10 out
of 10 times period
if this girl is better at war i'm going
to take that woman 10 out of 10 times
none of that matters to us all that
matters is winning wars
if you start putting anything else in
there you are dangerously
setting up our country to failure
yeah you you you we think because we're
building up this moral high ground
we'll win the next war before the first
shot is fired i believe that's sun tzu
i'll have to check that
i haven't been through my reading list
recently but you know what i did do tim
i have an army officer's guide from 1999
which was given to me before i was
commissioned as a lieutenant and it has
a recommended reading list in it
here's a quick list of some of the
things in the recommended reading list
from the army
from 1999 i think we have it that we can
put it up on the screen
that's definitely not it that is the
anti-racist list and the sexual murder
there we go
onward the soldier in the state company
commander a classic
this is a this is a reading list that
connects to my job as an infantry
platoon leader
which is to close with and destroy the
enemy uh that makes sense to me
but leadership at the pentagon are
endorsing these kinds of other lists
do they think it makes us more effective
what what are they good thinking
man i honestly don't know what they're
thinking but what i do know is uh
you know pete you're a smart guy as are
our military leaders
and i hope that they can hold two ideas
in their head um
i i study opposing views i read books
that i totally disagree with all the
time
sure um and there's nothing wrong with
understanding a different viewpoint
our leaders i think are the best and
brightest on the planet and
you know if they can at the same time
have an idea and a belief and then have
a counter idea
and read something that that conflicts
with their idea
it is okay for us to be inclusive it is
okay for us i am
passionately anti-racist and there's no
way that you're going to
be able to put a racist book in front of
me and
think that that's going to change my
views on being anti-racist
but that i would also love to read any
book that has a conflicting idea about
that
that could even more solidify and
concrete my position
but it still comes down to are we
preparing our military to do
our country's wars are we being more
lethal or less lethal
and if there is any other thing that's a
very difficult thing to convince
somebody of
if you've not been to war you don't
understand that nothing matters there is
no race there is no gender
there is no color there is no opinion
there's no politics there's success and
there's death there's chaos and there's
pain
if you don't prepare for that we are i
mean we are knocking at the door
of we are in economic war china we are
looking at who knows what's on
coming on in the next few years with
numerous countries
in eastern europe um and if we're not
preparing for that if we're not
preparing our military
to fight the war and nothing else
matters just lethality
just capability then i i i'm truly
worried for the country's future
what an important reminder capability
lethality
the ability to actually win and wage
wars tim kennedy thank you so much
for that straightforward assessment spot