Tensions around the world continue to escalate. Alliances are being formed between America's enemies while they strengthen their militaries. As for the U.S. military, look at these headlines from various news sites over the past several weeks-----The Biden administration is now ordering the military to allow male soldiers to shower with females.----Army revamping -Be all you can be- campaign.----Republicans demand answers from West Point over pronoun play acting training session.----Pentagon researchers urge more access to sex change hormones for military kids.----Secretary of State Blinken defends funding drag shows.----Biden aims to shrink the Navy while the Secretary of the Navy focuses on climate change. --After reading these you have to ask the question- Are we pursuing military readiness or military -wokeness--- --Appearing on Crosstalk to discuss this issue was Elaine Donnelly. Elaine is president of the Center for Military Readiness, an independent, nonpartisan public policy organization that reports on and analyzes military-social issues. Since its founding in 1993, CMR has advocated for high, uncompromised standards in all forms of military training and sound priorities in the making of military-social policies.--What does -woke- mean-- Elaine defined it as another name for progressivism-liberalism taken to extremes with coercion, even if it hurts the institution. That means -wokeness- is affecting and shaping gender policy, environmental policy and in the case of the subject discussed here, the military.