A lot of these officers will find decent jobs in Blue State national guards instead, which harks back to a rather different historical memory of what happened to Territorial Defence Forces in late 1980s Yugoslavia
Do you want a Free Officers' movement?
Because systematically obstructing professional advancement of select groups in your military on patently discriminatory grounds is how you get a Free Officers' movement
Nick Brumfield
“.. No female officers were included on the new one-star list, .. despite the fact that women make up about 21 percent of the active-duty Navy. The list appears to include only two nonwhite officers, even though .. minorities make up about 38 percent ..”
www.nytimes.com/2026/06/01/u...
