Woke General Considered for Top Special Forces Command Position

Army Lt. Gen. Jonathan Braga has openly displayed his proclivity toward woke initiatives that have no place in the special operations community. Sources tell Restoration News that Braga is being considered for a command promotion to lead the prestigious Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC), despite his support for diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) and intersex pride month.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has made it clear that wokeness has no place in the American military, and that merit—not DEI—must be the top priority for military leadership.

Lt. Gen. Jonathan Braga

Braga is currently the Commanding General of U.S. Army Special Operations Command at Fort Bragg. In June 2024, he approved, helped author, and signed a policy initiative that expressed commitment to "fostering a workplace that reflects diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility." The document also directed diversity as a mandatory performance element. Under his leadership, Braga's command posted an intersex-inclusive pride flag celebrating pride month on all its social media accounts. 

Braga commissioned and published a study about women in special forces. The report paints men as sexists, referring to men’s innate actions of wanting to protect women as "benevolent sexism" due to "unconscious bias." The study recommended unconscious bias training on so-called benevolent sexism to be conducted in special operations professional qualification courses.

One example provided in the study that concluded gender bias was the statement of a female officer:

I had to go pee so bad, but we were on a three-hour convoy in Iraq and couldn't stop due to the threat, the pain was unbearable, and I wound up with a complicated UTI because I had to hold it.

A person's biological limitation to survival during war should not count as unconscious bias and sexism by other members of the military team.

Biden Generals Pushed Wokeness in Special Forces

Former Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin made it clear to special operations commanders who served under him that he prioritized diversity, and they actively obliged. During an August 2023 Diversity Conference at West Point, one of Austin's top special operations generals, and long-time boss of Braga, Richard Clarke, recounted how Austin noted that U.S. Special Operations Command (SOCOM) was "the least diverse unit in DOD." Clarke also related how a group of business leaders described SOCOM leaders as "vanilla." Rather than pushing back about the importance of merit in special forces, Clarke made it an "operational imperative for more women and minorities in USSOCOM," recalls Col. William Prince, a retired U.S. Army Special Forces officer who was present at the conference. Speakers at the event consistently repeated a common theme under the Biden military, "diversity is our greatest strength." A narrative that has been rejected by Defense Sec. Hegseth whose focus is merit and warfighting, not woke political agendas.

JSOC is currently led by Navy Vice Admiral Frank Bradley and was created in 1987 to oversee special operations forces working jointly from the Army, Navy, and Air Force. Comprised of the best, most highly trained warriors in the world, JSOC conducts covert operations in combat zones around the world. These men come from the most elite commands such as Army's Delta Force, Navy SEAL's DEVGRU, and Air Force Pararescuemen. JSOC also has an intelligence arm which provides support to "special operations conducted against threats to protect the Homeland and U.S. interests abroad." Thanks to these special operators, terrorists like Osama bin Laden and Saddam Hussein are no longer on the planet.

It's imperative that members of JSOC be the best of the best based on merit and ability—not led by woke DEI initiatives like those supported by Lt. Gen. Braga.

(READ MORE: Mr. President, Fire the Woke Admiral Biden Promoted to the Joint Chiefs)