Episode 758: How Woke Politics are Endangering the U.S. Military
Newt's World
Gingrich 360
4.6 • 6.4K Ratings
🗓️ 1 October 2024
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
How are progressive politics eroding core military values and their readiness to defend our nation? Newt talks with Captain Tom Burbage, a former executive at Lockheed Martin and a U.S. Naval Academy graduate, who co-authored the book "Don't Give Up the Ship." He argues that politicizing the military undermines security, erodes readiness, and risks wartime defeat. Burbage shares his extensive military and aerospace industry experience, highlighting concerns about the current state of military recruitment, retention, and readiness. He emphasizes the importance of maintaining a strong national defense and the detrimental effects of divisive ideologies on military effectiveness. They also discuss the mission of the Calvert Task Group, a collective of former military officers advocating for a return to traditional military values and policies.
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| 0:00.0 | On this episode of Neut's world, how are progressive politics eroding core |
| 0:09.5 | Navy values and their readiness to defend our nation. |
| 0:13.0 | 17 former military officers apply their insights shaped by combat, command, |
| 0:20.0 | and senior leadership experience to illuminate the divisive threat of woke politics |
| 0:25.2 | and the new book don't give up the ship. |
| 0:28.0 | They argue that the impact of politicizing America's military |
| 0:32.2 | and dangerous security erodes readiness, and risks wartime defeat. |
| 0:37.0 | Here to discuss the new book, I'm really pleased to welcome my guest, Captain Tom Burbage. He's a former executive |
| 0:45.2 | vice president of Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Company, former general manager of the |
| 0:49.4 | F-35 Lightning II program integration, a graduate of the U.S Naval Academy. |
| 0:55.0 | He's also one of the founders of the Calvert Task Group. Tom, welcome, and thank you for joining me on Newsworld. |
| 1:08.0 | Tom, welcome and thank you for joining me on Newswirl. |
| 1:12.0 | Thank you very much, Mr. Speaker, and I appreciate you having us on. |
| 1:15.0 | You've had remarkable experience on your life. |
| 1:18.0 | Can you kind of walk us through from the Naval Academy to today? |
| 1:22.0 | Yes, sir, I grew up in a family of... from the Naval Academy to today? |
| 1:37.2 | Yes, sir, I grew up in a family of naval aviators. My father was a career in naval aviator and most of my role models as a young guy were naval aviators and it seemed natural that's the path I wanted to follow so I applied and got accepted to the Naval Academy |
| 1:51.0 | graduated from there in 1969 and my first squadron was with the E2 Hawkeye, which is a radar plane, flies off of carriers, and basically is the air traffic controller for the airplanes that are in the airwing. Then got the tremendous opportunity to go to the Navy Test Bio School. I was the first |
| 1:56.1 | E2 guy to actually go there and graduated from there. It was a test pilot for a number of years |
| 2:01.6 | of Patuxen River and then I went out to the USS Eisenhower |
| 2:05.3 | and I was a catapult and a resting gear officer on a nuclear carrier that was going on its maiden deployment. |
| 2:11.6 | Today that carrier is considered one of the older ones in the |
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