The Army’s ‘Recruitment Crisis’ Happened When White Recruits Stopped Showing Up
18th January 2024
The military recruitment crisis that has crippled our defense capabilities has been talked to death by generals, politicians and pundits who have blamed everything from rising minimum wages to obesity to Gen Z culture for the problem. They have raised enlistment bonuses to unprecedented levels, spent fortunes on ad campaigns that feature lesbian weddings and doubled down on DEI as the answer to the crisis. And yet the crisis has grown worse.
That’s because recruitment was a self-inflicted problem caused by a woke racist military.
Between 2018 and 2023, white Army recruits, once the mainstay, fell from a bare majority of 56% to a minority at 44%.
This was not an unintended effect, but policy.