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MoD contracts for poor service providers need to be cut and offered to better managed contractors. Military housing and accommodation needs urgently improving. I hate to break it to anybody reading this, but forcing equality of outcome on something as important as the nation’s defence is not the solution to our recruiting crisis. His successor, Sir Richard Knighton, has since apologised over the affair. The head of the RAF at the time, Sir Mike Wigston, conveniently managed to avoid any real public scrutiny, though his reputation rightly lies in ruins after trying to defend the shambolic and disgraceful policy. There is a strong case to be made that this breached employment law, and was thus illegal. Best illustrating this woke agenda is the Royal Air Force’s shameful recruitment fiasco from 2022 – when it was discovered that female and ethnic minority candidates were prioritised over white male recruits, regardless of suitability. This is merely the latest apparent policy to attempt to force equality of outcome in the British military. In another ill-thought out and controversial move to attempt to fix the UK military’s recruiting crisis, last week Defence Secretary Grant Shapps declared that ‘women are the solution to the Armed Forces recruitment crisis’. Peddling politically motivated and deeply flawed ideologically driven quotas is quite another. Recruiting targets are consistently not met, but the main priority is not to get more people to join up – it is to get more non-white people and women to join up.įailure to meet recruiting targets is one thing. The UK Armed Forces are in a similar depressing situation. The US military is 17 per cent women, so the recruiting crisis is primarily one among white men.Ĭlearly, something inside the US Army’s recruitment system is failing, both in terms of targets being drastically missed, and a failure to recruit effectively among the nation’s largest ethnic group. According to the US Census from 2022, around 59 per cent of all US citizens were from white backgrounds. Underpinning this drop was a dramatic decrease in white recruits from 44,042 in 2018, to just 25,070 in 2023, leading to the proportion of white recruits falling from 56.4 per cent of all recruits in 2018, to just 44 per cent. It was reported in this newspaper recently how the US Army has seen a dramatic fall in the number of white recruits, as the website found that the army fell 10,000 short of its 65,000 enlistment target. There is absolutely nothing worse for the combat effectiveness of a military, than attempting to use recruiting as a social engineering program. Let me begin by making this point as clearly as possible.

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