Lohmeier said the same ideological that divided the czarist army in early 20th-century Russia are now being used to weaken America’s armed forces.
“I wanted to educate them specifically about what I knew as the communist or Marxist roots of the current progressive social justice activism that was dividing the military,” Lohmeier explained. “We spent an immense amount of blood and treasure during the Cold War fighting this very ideology. To have it just wreck house in this country was a really sad and frustrating thing to see.”
In his 2021 book The Irresistible Revolution, he explains that “I wanted to make this, although it’s about a political ideology, not a partisan work,” he said. “I was later painted as a partisan activist, but I wasn’t. I was about keeping partisanship out of the military. That’s what motivated me to write the book.”
Posobiec agreed, pointing out that the tactics Lohmeier described mirror those of the Bolsheviks. “One of the first things they did when they wanted to recruit was go into the czarist army during World War I,” he said. “They started introducing these justice reforms to make the units more equitable—and that destabilized them. Once the units weakened, they told the soldiers, ‘Maybe your real enemy isn’t the Germans. Maybe it’s back home in the capital.’ These aren’t similar tactics. These are the same tactics. Same playbook. Same spirit.”
Lohmeier said that while the United States faces real adversaries abroad, the most dangerous threat comes from the enemy within. “No enemy on this planet is capable of unseating the United States as the great power on Earth,” he said. “We can undo that ourselves if we start fighting one another, if we start hating one another and demonizing the other—especially in uniform.”
Reflecting on his recent return to government service, Lohmeier shared that his first day back brought him nearly to tears. “I went downstairs and listened to the planners and those who executed Operation Midnight Hammer in Iran,” he recalled. “I was nearly brought to tears by the professionalism of these young men and women who flew bombers, fighters, and tankers, sacrificing family time for weeks to bring it together seamlessly. That’s the United States military.”
“You can’t persist in excellence if you’re beset by distractions like diversity trainings and equity trainings,” Lohmeier said. “Secretary Higgseth has done a phenomenal job from the start of eliminating those things, and our troops are very happy there’s a return to a focus on warfighting. That’s why they signed up in the first place.”
