Senior officials at Lockheed Martin Corporation, the largest contractor for the US defense industry, were sent to a three-day training session to rethink their views on "white male culture" and abandon their "white male privilege."

This became known from the internal documents of the company, published by the journalist of the City Journal, Christopher Rufo.

High-ranking officials at Lockheed Martin who attended the training included Vice President, Retired US Air Force Lieutenant General Bruce Litchfield, Retired US Air Force Lieutenant Colonel David Starr - program manager of the Hercules C-130 military transport aircraft, and Vice President of Production Glenn Woods is the F-35 fifth generation fighter program manager.

The training began with a free association exercise in which Lockheed Martin executives were asked to list words associated with the expression "white men."

The instructors named such definitions as "old, racist, privileged, antifeminist, embittered, Aryan, Ku Klux Klan, weapon, guilty."

According to representatives of the consulting firm that organized the training, "the roots of a culture dominated by white men" include aspects such as "strong individualism", "positive attitude", "hard work", "following principles" and "striving for success ”- and all this has“ disastrous consequences ”for women and minorities.

As exercises to consolidate the material covered, the participants were asked to ponder 156 theses about “white privilege”, “male privilege” and “heterosexual privilege”.

These included statements such as "my culture teaches me to belittle the views and capabilities of other races" and "my reproductive organs are not considered the property of other men, authorities and / or even strangers because of my gender."

Publisher Christopher Rufo described the training as "neo-racist" and called on the US Senate to immediately begin vetting Lockheed Martin before such practices undermine America's national security.


The incident was also criticized in the Republican Party.

For example, Congressman Dan Bishop from North Carolina said that there is no place for such ideas in the United States.

This has no place in America.

And corporations that divide their employees by race shouldn't receive a dime of taxpayer dollars.

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- Rep.

Dan Bishop (@RepDanBishop) May 26, 2021

“This has no place in America.

And corporations that divide their employees by race shouldn't get a cent out of taxpayer money, ”Bishop wrote on Twitter.

Non-combat training

In addition to the US military-industrial complex, a similar agenda is spreading in the American armed forces, according to the Republican Party.

So, 30 Republican congressmen sent an open letter to the head of the Pentagon, Lloyd Austin, in which they urged to take immediate measures against the spread of left-wing radical ideas in the US Armed Forces that threaten national security.

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The appeal comes after the conservative Revolver News published an article about Bishop Garrison, who was recently appointed as the Pentagon chief's "diversity and inclusion" adviser.

Republicans are calling for an investigation into his activities in the defense department.

“Under the pretext of checking for 'extremism' within the ranks of the Ministry of Defense, politicians like Bishop Garrison (head of the working group tasked with identifying extremist views for the Ministry of Defense. -

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), apparently, were given complete freedom to interrogate and root out military personnel who refuse to accept ultra-left doctrines.

It seems that your order to temporarily suspend activities for the ideological assessment of servicemen was related to these efforts, ”the letter says.

Parliamentarians also cite as an example the incident with Lieutenant Colonel Matthew Lomeyer of the US Space Force (in which he was responsible for detecting the launch of ballistic missiles. -

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), who was removed from office after he published a book about the influence of the penetrating ideology of "neo-Marxism" on the state of the Armed forces of America.

Given these trends, the Republicans consider it necessary to clarify the situation with the political training in the ranks of the American army.

“The sole mission of the United States Armed Forces is to protect American citizens and US national security interests, and to fight and win wars when necessary.

We urge you to use your powers to take measures to combat the growing left-wing extremism in the US Armed Forces, ”the statement to the Secretary of Defense says.

Army of the future

It is worth noting that a week earlier, the issue of a radical change in the ideology of the US army was in the center of media attention after the publication on Twitter of a viral video comparing advertising videos of the Russian and American armed forces.

In the advertising campaign of the RF Armed Forces, the paratroopers are actively raising the level of their combat training in extreme conditions.

The American video called "Calling" tells the story of a girl - a US Army soldier, who was raised by a lesbian couple from San Francisco.

In one scene, she is present at her mothers wedding, and in another, she attends a gay pride parade.

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Republican Senator Ted Cruz, commenting on these videos, felt that the US military had become too "politically conscious."

"Perhaps a politically conscious and free from masculinity army is not the best idea ..." - wrote the politician on his Twitter.

In turn, TV presenter Dave Rubin said that by spreading such agitation, America shows that it has ceased to be a "serious country."

“It turned out just an incredible comparison: one country behaves seriously, and the other - and this, unfortunately, the USA - is completely frivolous ... No offense to this girl, no offense to her lesbian mothers, no offense to activists, no offense equality, no offense to anyone or anything - but if in one corner of the ring there is a lesbian from the East Village, and in the other - Vladimir Putin, who will win? "

- says Rubin.

For their part, analysts note that such trends in the defense industry and the US Armed Forces are a reflection of the policies of American liberal capitalism, which seeks to rebuild society so that it is easier to manage.

“Now new pseudo-values ​​are being deliberately introduced within the framework of the struggle for the rights of minorities and against the privileges of the majority, which everyone must learn under pain of reprisals, in order to destroy the existing family, religious and cultural order.

The architects of this ideology strive to ensure that people, having lost most of their identity, become more manageable, "political analyst Alexander Asafov explained in an interview with RT.

From his point of view, such an ideological retraining "will certainly lead to the degradation of the professional military" in the United States.

At the same time, as their competencies decrease, more and more functionality will be taken over by automatic combat systems, Asafov predicts.

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In recent years, in the United States, the problem of infringement of the rights of various minorities has turned into a farce, which puts some pressure on competent people who work in the American defense industry, says Andrei Sidorov, head of the department of international organizations and world political processes at the Faculty of World Politics at Moscow State University.

“This is a certain political request, which is followed by a part of American business.

Of course, this destroys and undermines the US defense industry.

In general, this political order and the creation of a certain atmosphere, which is now directed to some extent against the white population, does not contribute to the pacification of society, the creation of common foundations for the effective functioning of the social system and can lead to the most uncertain consequences, "the political scientist predicts.

In his opinion, the main conductors of such an agenda in American society are the Democrats, who use the issue of harassment of minorities on racial and other grounds to earn political points.

“Against the backdrop of a deep split in American society, Democrats will continue to exploit the racial issue, as well as use the Black Lives Matter movement to stay in power and maintain the current balance of power in Congress until the new elections in 2022,” concluded Sidorov.