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“If you want to disagree with that, then you start being labelled all manner of things including racist. “It teaches intensive teaching that I heard at my base - that at the time the country ratified the United States Constitution, it codified White supremacy as the law of the land,” Lohmeier continued. He went on to denounce the 1619 project, which chronicles the impacts of slavery on U.S. And I had recognised those narratives as being Marxist in nature.” That wasn’t just prolific in social media, or throughout the country during this past year, but it was spreading throughout the United States military. “Since taking command as a commander about 10 months ago, I saw what I consider fundamentally incompatible and competing narratives of what America was, is, and should be. As you might suspect from that title, Lohmeier has some strong views about the state of the military these days, which he talked about at length on the podcast: Matthew Lohmeier appeared on The Steve Gruber Show to tout his new book, Irresistible Revolution: Marxism’s Goal of Conquest & the Unmaking of the American Military. “I have written a book about a particular political ideology (Marxism) in the hope that our Defense Department might return to being politically non-partisan in the future as it has honorably done throughout history.A Space Force lieutenant colonel has been removed from his post after claiming on a conservative podcast that Marxist ideologies are overrunning America’s armed forces, CNN and reported Sunday.Įarlier this week, Lt. "My intent never has been to engage in partisan politics,” he told. “I complied with what I understood was required as part of the pre-publication process,” he said. Lohmeier, who participated in a Thanksgiving Day call with former President Donald Trump last year, told the Washington Post that he did his due diligence in consulting with the military and legal counsel before publishing his book. McCarthy was eventually censured by the Senate, but not before leading a witch hunt that ruined the lives and reputations of innocent people. Joseph McCarthy claimed there were Soviet spies in the senior military and federal government leadership, including the State Department. government and military have long been explicitly anti-Marxist and in fact oriented their foreign policy around that principle, accusations that there’s a secret cabal of communists working in the upper echelons of government have a long history. Gen.Whiting has initiated a Command Directed Investigation on whether these comments constituted prohibited partisan political activity." Lohmeier in a recent podcast," a Space Force spokesperson told. "This decision was based on public comments made by Lt. Stephen Whiting, the commander of Space Operations Command, removed Lohmeier from his role “due to loss of trust and confidence in his ability to lead.” “What we saw taking place in the country and in the military, frankly, during this past year especially was reminiscent of Mao’s cultural revolution where you had to toe a certain party line,” Lohmeier said in another interview, according to the Washington Post.Ī Space Force spokesperson told the Washington Post Sunday that Lt. Christopher Warnagiris became the first active-duty service member charged in the riot. Austin said in a memo at the time that there “must be a concerted effort to better educate ourselves and our people about the scope of this problem and to develop sustainable ways to eliminate the corrosive effects that extremist ideology and conduct have on the workforce.ĭozens of former military service members, law enforcement, and other government employees have been arrested in connection with the riot, and last week Marine Corps Maj.

It was also during this interview where Lohmeier charged that the Defense Department’s push to increase diversity and inclusion in the military is “rooted in critical race theory, which is rooted in Marxism.”Īustin issued a “stand down” order in February shortly after his confirmation by the Senate, and after the Capitol riot on January 6, directing military supervisors and commanders to discuss extremism. “I don’t demonize, but I want to make it clear to both him and every service member that if we pursue this agenda, it will divide us, it will not unify us,” Lohmeier said in a recent podcast interview with conservative commentator L. Lloyd Austin, who earlier this year became the first Black Pentagon chief. While promoting it, Lohmeier was openly critical of diversity and inclusion efforts led by Defense Sec. Earlier this month he self-published a book called “Irresistible Revolution: Marxism’s Goal of Conquest and the Unmasking of the American Military.” Matthew Lohmeier was the commander of the 11th Space Warning Squadron at Buckley Air Force Base in Colorado, which is tasked with detecting ballistic missiles.