The British Army is considering reducing security checks for foreigners in an effort to encourage more non-White recruitment, according to an internal document.
Currently “ethnic minorities” comprise 14% of the British Army. Out of 131 non-British regular officers, 28 are non-White. The rest are categorized as White Irish or White Commonwealth.
A document leaked to The Telegraph Saturday titled “The British Army’s Race Action Plan,” has proposed several measures to remedy those numbers and recruit more non-Whites for positions in the intelligence and officer corps. One of these measures is to “challenge SC [security clearance] requirements,” which are described as “the primary barrier to non-UK personnel gaining a commission in the Army.”
Security clearance is granted only to those who have been living in the UK for at least five years. It is described as “the most common type of vetting process and determines that a person’s character and personal circumstances are such that they can be trusted to work in a position that involves long-term, frequent, and uncontrolled access to secret assets.”
The Race Action Plan says the five-year residency requirement is “prohibitive to overseas recruits” who wish to become officers in intelligence, military police, or other services.
In a letter to British Secretary of State Grant Shapps, 12 former senior military officials warned that “[t]he Russians, Iranians and Chinese will be observing our descent into self-hatred and obsessing over diversity and inclusion with glee.”
“Nothing could be better calculated to destroy the esprit de corps of our armed forces than this poisonous farrago of nonsense or to deter from serving the Crown precisely the type of people most motivated and apt to our high calling. Ours is a tolerant country and this obsessive racialising of everything is both disgusting and reprehensible,” they added.
Shapps is reportedly “furious” about the document and has ordered an investigation into the Army’s “diversity and inclusion” policies.
The report comes as the US Army is experiencing a significant drop among White recruits. Just 25,070 new recruits were classified as White last year, a 6% decline from 2022 and a serious dive from 44,042 in 2018.
Many suggest this is by design, considering that the Army has taken an aggressively woke approach under the Biden administration. General Mark Milley (ret.), who until last year was chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, publicly declared that he struggled “to understand White rage.” He also defended Critical Race Theory, an ideology which says Whites are inherently racist.
