Why Are Mid-Level U.S. Officers Revolting Against Their Military Leaders?

(Left to right) Space Force Lt. Col. Matthew Lohmeier, Army Lt. Col. Paul Hague, Marine Lt. Col. Stuart Scheller, and Navy Cmdr. J.H. Furman. The screenshots show Lohmeier, Hague, and Furman during separate interviews with Fox News hosts and the image of Scheller was pulled from an August Facbook video that ignited controversy.  

Task & Purpose: At least four mid-level officers have publicly revolted against military leaders. What’s going on?  

'You just have to ask yourself: What is going on?'  

There must be something in the water that mid-level military officers are drinking because four of them have publicly thrown down with their chain of command since spring and the acts of open defiance show no signs of slowing down. 

Since May, a Space Force lieutenant colonel has claimed that the military’s diversity and anti-extremism training are rooted in Marxism; a Marine lieutenant colonel became a lightning rod for openly critiquing military leadership over the Afghanistan withdrawal while in uniform; an Army lieutenant colonel has tried to resign just short of retirement because he believes that requiring troops to be vaccinated for COVID-19 is an “unlawful, unethical, immoral, and tyrannical order”; and a Navy commander has gone on Fox News to promote conspiracy theories about COVID-19 vaccines.  

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WNU Editor: Low morale and disagreement on Pentagon policies have been building up for a long time. But the US military defeat in Afghanistan has open the floodgates to open defiance among some officers. I also suspect that many im the US military are in agreement with this defiance, but they are not going to do it publicly while still in uniform.

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