Commentary “Sometimes I think we care more about whether we have enough diversity officers than if we’ll survive a fight with the Chinese navy.” “It’s criminal. They think my only value is as a black woman. But you cut our ship open with a missile and we’ll all bleed the same color.” These are the words of an active duty lieutenant in the U.S. Navy. They were recorded in a disturbing new report conducted by retired officers Lieutenant General Robert E. Schmidle of the U.S. Marine Corps, and Rear Admiral Mark Montgomery of the U.S. Navy, at the direction of Republican Senator Tom Cotton and Representatives Jim Banks, Dan Crenshaw, and Mike Gallagher on the apparently flagging fighting culture of the Navy’s surface fleet. The lieutenant’s words capture the looming disaster to American life and limb posed by the cult of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion conquering every aspect of society—including …