Tucker Carlson has unloaded on the military a couple of times in the last few days. The latest salvo from Tucker was in response to the military’s freak out of being under the microscope. They know they are off script. I have written a little about this recently in a post titled “The Mission of the Military is to Break Things and Kill People, Not Experiment with Social Policies.”

Here is Tucker’s response to the firestorm if you want to watch it.

Like I mentioned in that article, the military is the perfect place for politicians to virtue signal. They are forcing changes onto a society that literally cannot say no. On top of that, the senior leaders of the military are political appointees. Their viewpoint is going to be in line with the person that appointed them.

That is not to say that the way it is structured is all bad. It is flawed, however, when the people that are put in charge think that changing society, by way of forcing change onto a hostage population, is their mission. Not protection of the country. Because let’s face it, by and large, the military isn’t asking for these changes. They are acquiescing to pressures from the outside.

As Tucker correctly notes, the primary mission of the military is not to change to reflect what society thinks is just. It is to fight and win wars. Every dollar spent should go to advancing that mission. Every ounce of effort should be put to the fight, training to fight, or making sure that the warriors can conduct warfare. That would include functioning equipment, cutting edge tech, and morale. Everything else is waste, fraud, and abuse.

Nothing I have said in the screed above precludes transgender or LGBTQ (add letter here) personnel. But there is a simple question that should be asked by every American, “Does the military need it to satisfy the mission?” I would argue an emphatic no.

Here is just one example. Pregnant women don’t need flight suits. Their normal working uniforms have maternity versions. If women are pregnant enough to require special clothing, they shouldn’t be flying. The reason is simple. You always assume an emergency egress. Are we going to intentionally put a visibly pregnant woman (enough to need special suits) into a situation that may not be survivable to even our most capable members? No. Maternity flight suits will help no one. But it is a great thing to be able to read off of a teleprompter.

The military leadership knows that his is a bunch of smoke an mirrors to advance an image. It literally does nothing to help our service members complete their mission. That is why they are trying to push the target sight off of themselves onto Tucker. They don’t want the attention because it shows that they have taken their eye off the ball.