Meanwhile, in the ranks ...

Too many folks in OBiden's DOD and National Security staff would have to be stupid for this to be unanticipated.

Ask yourself - why is DOD willing to endure the pain and significantly diminish  DOD's ability to defend the US from peer opponents?  

"When you openly accuse the military of being rightwing and harboring white supremacists, insist on schooling them in transgender pronoun usage, and then force them to get vaccinated for a Covid-19 virus that’s less threatening than the flu for the young and healthy military demographic, you shouldn’t be shocked that they don’t want to enlist under a leadership they neither trust nor admire."

https://thefederalist.com/2022/06/29/thanks-to-leftist-corruption-u-s-military-recruiting-is-in-total-freefall/

UPDATE - 7/18/22:  With the OBiden regime in power it only gets worse in the ranks ...

https://thenationalpulse.com/2022/07/17/2023-ndaa-funds-plant-based-protein-pilot/