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Review every general and flag officer promotion at the White House

Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise, chapter 2, p. 52. Written by Russ Vought.

Review every general and flag officer promotion at the White House

The document says “shouldWho acts: NSCHow: internal managementp. 52 in the PDF
What the document says

“The NSC should rigorously review all general and flag officer promotions to prioritize the core roles and responsibilities of the military over social engineering and non-defense matters”

Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise, p. 52

The chapter says the National Security Council should rigorously review all general and flag officer promotions, in order to prioritize the military's core roles over what it calls social engineering and non-defense matters, listing climate change, critical race theory and manufactured extremism among the policies it says weaken the armed forces.

What the document actually says

“The NSC should rigorously review all general and flag officer promotions to prioritize the core roles and responsibilities of the military over social engineering and non-defense matters”

Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise, p. 52
That sentence, in plain words

The council should check every top officer picked to lead. Fighting should count first, not other aims.

What this is about

The military picks its own top officers. The book says the White House should check each choice. It wants officers judged on fighting ability. It names climate change and race training as things to weigh against.

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