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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 “should”Who 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.

Read against the documents indexed here on August 26, 2026, and nothing was found that answers this. The chapter asks for language written into law, and nothing among the candidates is such a statute. None of them instructs three and four star officers about their primary duty, changes what is asked at Senate confirmation, or defines an order as a threat to readiness. That is a record of a search, not a finding that nothing has happened: an act this site does not hold, or one that answers the proposal in words unlike its own, would not be caught by it.

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  1. The document itself

    Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise, edited by Paul Dans and Steven Groves (The Heritage Foundation, 2023), p. 103.
    https://static.heritage.org/project2025/2025_MandateForLeadership_FULL.pdf

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    “Instruct senior officers that readiness, not social policy, is their duty,” Project 2025, chapter 4, p. 103. Read the Mandate, https://readthemandate.org/project-2025/proposal/ch04-officers-readiness-not-social-agenda/ (retrieved October 7, 2026).

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