When Secretary of War Pete Hegseth stood before top generals last Tuesday and blasted the military’s obsession with “wokeness,” he was voicing what millions of Americans already know: our armed forces should be focused on readiness and lethality, not ideology. Yet the rot is not confined to the government. Unfortunately, it runs deep through the private contractors who build our military equipment, betraying the warfighter and threatening national security. For the sake of military readiness, we must end wokeness in our top defense contractors.

Woke Activism In The Defense 5

The five largest U.S. government contractors – Lockheed Martin, RTX, General Dynamics, Boeing, and Northrop Grumman – dominate military procurement. Together, they should be laser-focused on engineering excellence and creating the most effective technology in the world. Instead, four of the “Defense 5” contractors have surrendered wholesale to the activist Left.

Consider the most influential activist group on Corporate America, the Human Rights Campaign, who annually pressures corporations to comply with radical LGBTQ policies. Four of the Defense 5 hold a perfect score on the HRC’s so-called Corporate Equality Index, indicating they:

But the pattern doesn’t stop there. Four of the Defense 5 also signed the infamous Business Roundtable 2019 Statement on the Purpose of a Corporation,........

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