A top Pentagon official resigned this week and warned that the United States is losing its edge in the global race for technological superiority.
This from westernjournal.com.
Preston Dunlap speaks at the AF Assoc Air, Space and Cyber Conference in National Harbor, Maryland, on 9/17/19.
Preston Dunlap, who had been the founding chief architect officer of the Air Force and Space Force since 2019, announced his resignation Monday in a lengthy LinkedIn note in which he urged the Department of Defense to stop being complacent.
Dunlap’s job was created during the tenure of President Trump, who established the Space Force in 2019 as the sixth branch of the U.S. armed forces.
Dunlap also warned against defending “our turf, when we should be defending our country” and competing “with each other, when we should be competing with China.”
At one point, the outgoing Space Force czar blasted the Defense Department’s arcane bureaucracy, which he says inhibits innovation and stifles progress.
Dunlap recalled how on his first day at work, “I arrived to find no budget, no authority, no alignment of vision, no people, no computers, no networks, a leaky ceiling, even a broken curtain.”
Let this sink in: Three days ago, the phone lines were down at the Pentagon—the command post for U.S. national defense.
Meanwhile, Joe Biden just signed legislation to send an additional $13.6 billion in aid to bolster Ukraine’s national defense.
In his note, Dunlap referred to the U.S. government as the “world’s largest bureaucracy” and essentially rebuked it as a defunct dinosaur.
“By the time the Government manages to produce something, it’s too often obsolete; no business would ever survive this way, nor should it,” he admonished.
His resignation letter echoed the sentiments of former Pentagon official Nicolas Chaillan, who quit in protest in September 2021 after expressing frustration with America’s lagging technological competitiveness.
In his volcanic LinkedIn resignation letter, Chaillan said U.S. cyberdefenses were at “kindergarten level” and made the country an easy target for large-scale hacking operations that could cripple the nation’s infrastructure and banking systems.
He said it was a foregone conclusion that communist China will supplant the United States as the world’s pre-eminent superpower because it’s already on track to overtake the U.S. when it comes to artificial intelligence and cyberwarfare.
“We have no competing fighting chance against China in 15 to 20 years,” Chaillan told the U.K.’s Financial Times in October. “Right now, it’s already a done deal; it is already over in my opinion.”
As a reminder, the Biden regime has made combating climate change and promoting transgenderism—not defending the homeland—the centerpieces of the nation’s military strategy.
Fueling the nation’s rapid slide into mediocrity is the left-wing crusade to eradicate academic standards in the name of racial “equity.
Lowering academic standards and prioritizing affirmative-action hiring practices do not help underachieving individuals or groups.
All they do is dumb down students and undercut American exceptionalism in the name of toxic “wokeness.”
This is precisely why our foreign adversaries are likely to usurp the United States technologically, financially, and socially.
Whether this can be turned around or not, We the People must strive to do so.
The Obama-installed DoD must be removed and a capable team must be installed.
However, my words are mere wishful attempts to grab at straws. Nothing sensible will be accomplished under this current misleadership.
