Military Analyst Sean Bell emphasizes that diversity is vital for the military but shouldn’t amount to meeting percentage quotas.
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00:00Donald Trump is taking aim at diversity in the U.S. military.
00:05How will these demographic changes in the forces possibly reshape the army?
00:11And how important is diversity?
00:15Yes, good evening to you.
00:17Diversity is really important, but the danger is sometimes momentum gets away with us
00:22and suddenly diversity becomes about targets.
00:25It's about percentages.
00:27I know from my military career, when I started in the military, we didn't have any female pilots.
00:32We had to recruit a few, and actually there was some degree of scepticism at the start,
00:37but I served with some truly outstanding female pilots.
00:40The whole point about diversity is there may be untapped areas of your society
00:45which have some skills and experience which could be valuable.
00:48What you mustn't do is suddenly, though, make that around percentages,
00:52and the risk is then you start to compromise your operational effectiveness.
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