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During a tour of duty at the U.S. Naval Academy (USNA) as a Company Officer in the 1980s... ...the Naval Academy had already abandoned strict meritocracy for affirmative action. I have watched with alarm for years as the Armed Forces subsequently embraced Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) and have published about it extensively, most recently in Real Clear Defense.... ...Although information concerning DEI on publicly available websites at USNA has largely been scrubbed, there remain strong indications that USNA DEI efforts have merely gone underground.

It is not often that I write a book review and find that the book has gotten under my skin, so to speak. When this happens, as was the case in reading Don’t Give up the Ship: Woke Politics are Endangering our Military and our Nation by The Calvert Task Group, it is because I felt as if I were in the presence of a rare and lost breed of military men: patriotic and possessed of punctilious courtesy, refined manners, liberal education, and personal honor.

There is an old saw in leadership circles, “You get what you inspect.” It recognizes that what you choose to measure and what you ignore conveys to your team what aspects of any situation are important to you. Nowhere is this more evident than in Navy Diversity, Equity & Inclusion (DEI) programs.

The American Revolution and the Constitution designed to protect the nation born from it are landmark achievements of Western Civilization. Both are under attack by the self-styled "Progressive” movement. But words matter, and the misnamed “Regressives” are a radically reactionary, counter-revolutionary movement. The goal of their movement is nothing less than subverting the American Revolution and its Constitution, and the functional overthrow of the American Republic.

Background: In September 2015 President Obama announced UN Agenda 2030 as the “U.S. Global Development Policy and Agenda 2030” creating a seismic shift away from development policy serving U.S. national interests. President Biden has been fully committed to that objective. Under cover of Executive Orders President Biden abandoned any pretense of U.S. territorial sovereignty and replaced managed immigration with open borders. They deliberately and explosively expanded U.S.-facilitated mass migration to the US, expending billions of dollars to accomplish it.