General Mark Milley, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, insisted that he was not sure what the word “woke” means.
Milley spoke on Sunday with CNN’s Fareed Zakaria, who stated, “You talk about how the military is not woke. How the military officers should be reading Karl Marx,” then asked, “Is the U.S. military too woke?”
“No, not at all,” Milley initially responded, then continued, “You know, I’m not even sure what that word truly means.”
“But I would tell you that the military I see is a military that is exceptionally strong, it’s powerful, it’s ready,” Milley declared. “In fact, our readiness rate is — the way we measure readiness is better now than they’ve been in years.”
“This military is a …