"It is no longer a question of whether quota-based policies might affect readiness. There is clear evidence that's already happened."
While the imposition of group outcome equality in universities and corporations has begun to spark outrage among the public, there is one institution that has been imposing quotas far longer and far more comprehensively than any other, but that has largely escaped criticism: the United States military.
Will Thibeau, an Army Ranger veteran and director of the American Military Project at the Claremont Institute, takes a deep dive into the logic of the military's group quota system, and ponders where that logic may lead the rest of the country.
The American Military Project has uncovered an internal Air Force memo from 2022 in which General C.Q. Brown, now President Biden's chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, directed the service "to develop a diversity and inclusion outreach plan aimed at achieving" set numerical quotas for the racial composition of officer applicant pools.
This previously unreported memo is clear evidence that a group quota system is operating in the U.S. military, though Pentagon leadership are exceptionally careful to avoid using the term.
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