In November, the situation was tough. Senate and House versions of the annual defense bill didn’t just permit funding for bad social issue mandates, they would have shifted the military into an organization advancing the far Left’s favorite “woke” initiatives.
In July, the Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC) passed their defense bill (S. 2792) behind closed doors. The text was not even disclosed until September, and the full House approved a similar bill (H.R. 4350 ) with little discussion or understanding of its outcomes.
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The dispute focused on “Draft Our Daughters” legislation demanding the registration of young women with Selective Service for a possible future draft. Its stated “equity” goals ignored well-known sex-specific differences in physical strength, endurance, and deployability. These unchanging distinctions would have slowed induction procedures during a catastrophic national emergency – the worst imaginable time.
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The defense bill also would have modified the purpose of Selective Service, allowing conscription to “meet diverse mobilization needs” and “not solely to provide combat replacements.” This blank check language would have authorized Pentagon bureaucrats to commandeer the lives of young people not just for military combat but for causes that have never justified conscription before.
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The Center for Military Readiness asked the legal authorization for an “Executive Agent for National Mobilization,” described as a senior civilian in the Office of the Secretary of Defense who would have produced a possibly classified report discussing how to mobilize 300,000 to 600,000 or even 1 million “inductees” – for what?
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The unclear language mirrored the superb “Inspired to Serve Act,” proposed by the three-year, $45 million National Commission on Military, National and Public Service. A both-sexes Selective Service system and Executive Agent for National Mobilization would morph into the commission-recommended “Council on Military, National, and Public Service.”
Such a Cabinet-level council would empower bureaucrats to control the lives of young people with economic “carrots” and “sticks” imposing both military and civilian national service requirements on young persons of draft age.
The 3,268-page House bill advocated more bad ideas, including contentious Critical Race Theory (CRT) programs. CRT instructions, which demoralize personnel with unresolvable allegations of “systemic racism” and “White Supremacy,” are toxic at the military service academies and in environments where people must trust and depend on each other for survival in battle.
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Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Arkansas; Reps. Jim Banks, R-Indiana, Mark Green, R-Tennessee, Dan Bishop, R-North Carolina; and several others sponsored defense bill amendments to define and eliminate divisive CRT programs in the military.
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