by Sean Mandell
December 1, 2016
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Mattis made his comments in a book of essays published in August titled Warriors & Citizens:
American Views of Our Military, which he and Kori N. Schake, former senior policy adviser to the McCain-Palin campaign, co-edited.
Foreign Policy blog reports,
In a book published this year about civilian-military relations co-edited with FP contributor
Kori Schake, Mattis warned of the danger of civilian leaders with a
“progressive agenda” imposing “social change” on the military.
“We fear that an uninformed
public is permitting political leaders to impose an accretion of social
conventions that are diminishing the combat power of our military,”
Mattis and Schake wrote.
Mattis apparently is aligned with another top-ranking
military official who has been skeptical of President Obama’s pro-LGBT
policies when it comes to military service. More via FP blog:
If confirmed as defense secretary, Mattis
would likely see eye to eye with the top-ranking military officer,
Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Joseph Dunford, a fellow Marine and longtime
friend who at one point served as a subordinate to Mattis.
Both Mattis and Dunford take a dim view
of some of the personnel changes carried out by the Obama
administration, particularly those focused on integrating transgender
troops and opening up combat jobs to female soldiers. In 2011, the Obama
administration repealed a ban on gay troops from serving openly. Last
year, the Pentagon lifted a prohibition on women serving in ground
combat jobs. And in June, Defense Secretary Ash Carter opened the door
to allow openly transgender people to serve in the military. The changes
likely will come under strict scrutiny from a Trump administration, and
the transgender rules could even be reversed.
Watch a report on Mattis, below.Read more articles from Towleroad, here.
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