Not a White Man’s Army as Cultural Collapse Continues By Charles Taylor (Florida)

This issue was discussed at the blog today by Richard Miller "The Dangers of the Cult of Diversity." The problem is the difficulty the British armed forces have in getting recruits, even with the promotion of women and the diverse, and open embrace of all woke ideologies. The discussion, based around an insightful article that appeared a few days ago in the British The Telegraph, deal with the way the British military have attacked traditional masculinity, going down the feminist road as seeing the John Wayne man as exhibiting "toxic masculinity." That is all true, but there is another component to this as well, the racial aspect, which is perhaps seen explicitly in the US situation.

The US Army has found that there has been a sharp decline in the number of White recruits.There has been an overall shortfall of about 10,000 recruits for the US Army in 2023 with the army missing its target of 65,000 new soldiers. There were 44,042 new Army Recruits classified as White in 2018, but in 2023, the number of Whites fell to 25,070; in 2018, 56.4 percent of new recruits were categorized as White, but in 2023, that number had fallen to 44 percent. This radical decline was not observed with other demographics.

As the issue relates to Whites not wanting to join the Army, the obvious causes must relate to the treatment of Whites in the Army. It is no surprise to see that the same woke ideologies operating at other institutions, like the universities, which are engaged in a deconstruction of "Whiteness," also operate in the Army, which has gone full woke. Blacks and Hispanics, as protected minorities can get by fine, but the culture is one of high oppression, with less chance of career advancement for Whites. So, at the end of the day, why bother? Too bad that the West is facing a worldwar, with both Russia and China not having even a tea spoonful of this Leftist woke poison.

As it is now standard that Whites need to be massacred in major wars, and replaced by coloured migrants, it looks like the Deep Staters will move for conscription for World War III, coming up fast. And, that will wake up the presently passive population even more than the Vietnam War did.

https://www.amren.com/news/2024/01/army-sees-sharp-decline-in-white-recruits/

"The Army's recruiting of white soldiers has dropped significantly in the last half decade, according to internal data reviewed by Military.com. The shift in demographics for incoming recruits would be irrelevant to war planners, except it coincides with an overall shortfall of about 10,000 recruits for the Army in 2023 as the service missed its target of 65,000 new soldiers. That deficit is straining the force as it has ramped up its presence in the Pacific and Europe: A smaller Army is taking on a larger mission and training workload than during the peak of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan — leading to soldiers being away from home now more than ever.

A total of 44,042 new Army recruits were categorized by the service as white in 2018, but that number has fallen consistently each year to a low of 25,070 in 2023, with a 6% dip from 2022 to 2023 being the most significant drop. No other demographic group has seen such a precipitous decline, though there have been ups and downs from year to year.

In 2018, 56.4% of new recruits were categorized as white. In 2023, that number had fallen to 44%. During that same five-year period, Black recruits have gone from 20% to 24% of the pool, and Hispanic recruits have risen from 17% to 24%, with both groups seeing largely flat recruiting totals but increasing as a percentage of incoming soldiers as white recruiting has fallen.

The rate at which white recruitment has fallen far outpaces nationwide demographic shifts, data experts and Army officials interviewed by Military.com noted. They don't see a single cause to the recruiting problem, but pointed to a confluence of issues for Army recruiting, including partisan scrutiny of the service, a growing obesity epidemic and an underfunded public education system.

Internally, some Army planners are alarmed over the data trends, but see it as a minefield to navigate given increasing partisan attacks against the military for its efforts to recruit and support a diverse force, according to interviews with several service officials.

The updated data provided by the Army did not break down recruit demographics by both race and gender at the same time, meaning that it's unclear whether the sharp decline is worse among white women or white men, or if the drop was the same for both groups.

Though the recruiting numbers reviewed by Military.com point to a stable gender divide for incoming soldiers, 83% male in 2018 versus 82% in 2023, the disproportionate number of men donning the uniform means that a disruption to men seeking work in the U.S. can have a major impact on the military services. That exact dynamic is at play, according to civilian experts, as men have been disappearing from labor market statistics.

Among other problems, opioid overdoses have increasingly pummeled the U.S. every year, with 80,000 deaths in 2021 and about 75% of overdose victims being white and many in their twenties, according to data compiled by the Kaiser Family Foundation.

Another Army official pointed to partisan attacks from conservative lawmakers and media, which has an overwhelmingly white audience. Those groups have used the military as a partisan cudgel against the Biden administration, lambasting the services for being "woke," or so preoccupied with liberal values that they have abandoned their warfighting priorities. In most cases, those attacks have zeroed in on the services being more inclusive for women, service members from racial minority groups and LGBTQ+ troops.

"No, the young applicants don't care about this stuff. But the older people in their life do who have a lot of influence … parents, coaches, pastors," one Army official told Military.com. "There's a level of prestige in parts of conservative America with service that has degraded. Now, you can say you don't want to join, for whatever reason, or bad-mouth the service without any cultural guilt associated for the first time in those areas."