The leadership is more concerned with diversity and inclusion than combat readiness. This institutional rot, across industry, academia, and military, is a symptom of antimeritocratic hiring bias. For example, apparently women are so valuable to our military that the brass has decided to quietly lower standards in return for positive political coverage. This has been going on to an increasing degree for at least a decade, and is only accelerating under the current administration and, frankly, it's insanity.
Also extremely toxic to morale.