The anti-military left used to quip, “What if they gave a war and nobody came?” Now that they are in charge of the U.S. government, we may be about to find out.

Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin says all active duty personnel must be vaccinated against Covid-19, a murderous disease from a Chinese biowarfare laboratory. It remains to be seen how many in our all-volunteer armed forces decide to quit rather than take an experimental gene therapy they have thus far declined to inject in their bodies. But anecdotal evidence suggests there will be some, particularly among the relatively small number of actual warriors, as opposed to the many who support them.

Weakening our defenses invites possibly otherwise deterrable wars. With the people who brought us the Chinese Communist Party virus spoiling to do still more damage, that’s an experiment we must avoid.

This is Frank Gaffney.