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28 April 2024 2024-09-19 13:15Book
Don't Give Up The Ship:
Woke Politics are Endangering our Military
Essays by members of the Calvert Task Group
Available in Hardcover, Paperback and Ebook
The warning signs are obvious. Our freedoms and our nation itself are under siege. We face unprecedented circumstances. Russia and China’s expansionist ambitions pose an existential foreign military threat.
At the same time, we are facing a significant internal challenge as every fissure from social media to election integrity to our national borders are being exploited.
The backbone of our Republic, ensuring our American freedoms, is our military. The Calvert Task Group sounds the alarm about the erosion of core Navy values of courage, honor, and commitment by progressive politics.
Seventeen former military officers, most U.S. Naval Academy graduates, apply their insights shaped by combat, command, and senior leadership experience, to illuminate the divisive threat of woke politics. Politicizing our military endangers security, erodes readiness, and risks wartime defeat.
This book urges readers to stand against the crisis and defend the principles that have made America strong.
The fate of our country is in the hands of the American people. The time to act is now.
Available in hardcover, paperback and ebook
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EARLY REVIEWS
Praise for Don’t Give up the Ship
“A group of Naval Academy graduates who have served our country nobly, succeeded in both military and private sector endeavors and who have literally fought for our freedoms now find themselves fighting for the country in a way they never imagined. The Calvert Group is made up of true American heroes whose love of country isn’t what they have said, but what they have DONE. But the enemy they battle now is not the Red threat of the Cold War or even the radical Middle Eastern terrorists of Isis, the Taliban, or Al-Qaeda. It’s the radical left of our universities, media companies, and in the government including the beloved military service academies that they see as the REAL “threat to Democracy.” Their “War on Woke” is a refreshing effort by some of America’s most decorated warriors to stand up and fight back against the forces that would take our country to a place where America is hated rather than loved.”
Mike Huckabee
Political Commentator, Baptist Minister and former Governor of Arkansas
“Don't Give Up the Ship" is the kind of patriotic message every American can rally around. It is an important book about a topic vital to our survival.”
Newt Gingrich
Author, 50th speaker of the United States House of Representatives
“Everybody who cares about our Navy – and our entire military – needs to read this book. “Don’t Give Up The Ship” is chock full of truth, research, and perspective you can only get from patriots dedicated to defeating leftist indoctrination and refocusing the military on its core mission: deterring, fighting, and winning our nation’s wars. Our warfighters need this book!”
Pete Hegseth
Fox News Host, Author of "The War on Warriors: Behind the Betrayal of the Men Who Keep Us Free"
“The Calvert Task Group clearly recognizes that we are locked in a struggle for the soul of our nation. With this collection of essays, they effectively expose the insidious, but very real, threats that Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI), Critical Race Theory (CRT), LGBTQ pride events, and the like, are having on our military’s readiness and our nation’s unity. The threat is real. And this book goes a long way in helping Americans push back before it’s too late.”
Brig General Christopher Petty, US Army ret
STARRS Board of Directors, Creator of the Battle Digest Military History Series
“Don’t Give Up The Ship” is a gripping book that metaphorically identifies our Constitutional Republic as a Ship which is quickly sinking and must be saved through the combined efforts of citizens--all hands on deck. The book is a compendium of articles representing the authors combined wisdom from 535 years of military service. They are jointly sounding the klaxton alarm that the greatest threat to the survival of our Republic, is a domestic enemy called Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion which has infected our Nation and military as it diminishes equal opportunity and meritocracy, thereby degrading warfighting readiness. For the sake of all our children and grandchildren, they seek to inform the public and political leaders that our freedom and Nation are in great peril."
Maj. General Joe Arbuckle, US Army ret
Flag Officers 4 America, Vice Chairman of STARRS
"I am always encouraged to see the work of other veterans who choose to never stop sacrificing their time, talents, and reputations for the preservation of liberty. The veterans responsible for the essays in this work--some of whom I consider friends and all of whom have my respect--provide readers a compelling testimony of the U.S. military's perilous path and a persuasive invitation for us to right the ship before it is too late."
Former Lt Colonel Matthew Lohmeier, USAF/USSF
Author of "Irresistible Revolution: Marxism's Goal of Conquest & the Unmaking of the American Military"
“It would behoove all leaders, past and present, to read this insightful and thought-provoking book. It is chock full of hard truths many will not want to hear, but which all, without exception, need to hear."
Vice Admiral Willam Dean Lee, USCG ret
"The Calvert Task Group has sounded the alarm on the misguided agenda within our military at a critical time in our nation’s history. I pray that their clarion call will help steer our ship of state back on course – quickly!"
Bob Beauprez
Former Member of Congress
“There can be no debate that the progressive socialist left and their cultural Marxist ideology is destroying our US Armed Forces. This is the focus on the new book from the Calvert Task Group, "Don't Give up the Ship: Woke Politics are Endangering our Military and our Nation". Recruiting and retention is at all time low levels because our troops do not want to endure the delusional racist policies of DEI. Nor do they want to serve under such inept and incompetent civilian and military leadership that would sacrifice them in such a debacle as Afghanistan. The Calvert Group brings all of this to the attention of the reader. This is a critical election cycle for the future of our Constitutional Republic. If we do not have trained and ready Warriors to stand upon freedom's ramparts, then the rise of a new Axis of Evil -- China, Russia, Iran, North Korea, Islamic jihadism, and transnational narco-terrorism --is all but certain.
Lt Colonel Allen B. West, US Army, Retired
Member, 112th US Congress, Chairman, Dallas County Republican Party
