Peter Hitchens: Britain is destroying its armed forces

Britain has fallen a long way since it lost its global power status. Peter Hitchens says elite liberals have destroyed every other institution in the United Kingdom, and now they are after the armed forces.

Having wrecked the schools, the police, the courts and the Civil Service, destroyed the married family and debauched the economy, the slow-motion British Revolution now plans to ruin the Armed Forces, the last truly conservative institutions left standing after 60 years of upheaval.

At the end of this process, the Army, Navy and Air Force will still exist in outward form, but they will be useless for the purpose for which we have them – fighting the enemy.


Instead, they will produce plenty of annual reports showing how sexually equal and inclusive they are.


The appointment of officers will be made on the grounds of subservience to dogma rather than on the grounds of known bravery or competence, and also of course on the basis of sex, with women preferred over men.


If ever such disembowelled, politically corrected forces come up against the fighters of any country which still puts national defence before political fashion, then I do not think there is much doubt of the outcome.


I am amazed there has not been more fuss about the grotesque ‘report’ claiming that the Forces have ‘unacceptable levels of sexism, racism and bullying’ and are led by ‘a pack of white middle-aged men’.


‘Report’ these days is a grand title given to any miserable little pamphlet, light on evidence and long on denunciation, produced by any fool who cares to line himself up with the prevailing ideology.
The US is also falling prey to these hard left demands. In order to open up combat jobs to women standards had to be lowered. In Ranger school, for example, tasks that were go/no go became just training experiences and a failure was no longer ticket back to your unit or perhaps a one chance to recycle.