Matt Lohmeier is a fighter jet pilot who was fired from Top Gun Space Force after highlighting the infiltration of cultural Marxism in the Air Force. (Similarly, Taras Kobernyk is a software engineer who was fired from Google for highlighting the infiltration of cultural Marxism in the tech giant.)
He wrote a book about it, which is what caused his grounding.
His book Irresistible Revolution was published in May 2021, at which time Matt was a respected active-duty commander in the newly formed US Space Force. For publishing and speaking about his book, then-Lieutenant Colonel Lohmeier was relieved of his command and subjected to an Inspector General investigation launched from the Pentagon.
What is Space Force?
Very simply,
[t]he United States Space Force (USSF) is the space service branch of the U.S. Armed Forces, one of the eight U.S. uniformed services, and the world’s only independent space force.
The first discussions of creating a military space service occurred in 1958, and the idea was also being considered in 1982 by President Ronald Reagan. The 2001 Space Commission argued for the creation of a Space Corps between 2007 and 2011, and a bipartisan proposal in the U.S. Congress would have created a U.S. Space Corps in 2017. On 20 December 2019, the United States Space Force Act was signed into law as part of the National Defense Authorization Act.
What is cultural Marxism?
A number of my guests have covered this, from Peter Boghossian to James Lindsay to Stefan Molyneux, and finding related stuff on the internet is easy. I quite enjoyed the following critique by former KGB agent, Yuri Bezmenov, in a superb interview back in 1984.
Our conversation
Matt and I chatted about
- flying fighter jets and why Top Gun was a great film;
- the purpose of Space Force;
- wokeness in Space Force;
- the importance of keeping (identity) politics out of the military;
- why Earth is not flat; and
- the absolute awesomeness of the stars and night sky.
