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Instruct senior officers that readiness, not social policy, is their duty

Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise, chapter 4, p. 103. Written by Christopher Miller.

Instruct senior officers that readiness, not social policy, is their duty

The document says “shouldWho acts: Congress, SenateHow: legislationp. 103 in the PDF
What the document says

“Codify language to instruct senior military officers (three and four stars) to make certain that they understand their primary duty to be ensuring the readiness of the armed forces, not pursuing a social engineering agenda.”

Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise, p. 103

The chapter asks that this instruction be written into law for three and four star officers, that it be reinforced during Senate confirmation, and that orders motivated by what it calls purely partisan motives be identified as threats to readiness.

What the document actually says

“Codify language to instruct senior military officers (three and four stars) to make certain that they understand their primary duty to be ensuring the readiness of the armed forces, not pursuing a social engineering agenda.”

Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise, p. 103
That sentence, in plain words

Put it in law. Top officers must know their first job is keeping the forces ready to fight.

What this is about

The book wants a law about what top officers must focus on. Their first job would be keeping the forces ready. The book says social causes should not come first.

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