Alabama Republican Sen. Tommy Tuberville blasted President Joe Biden in an op-ed for the Daily Caller in which he accused the commander-in-chief’s administration of infecting the U.S. military with a “woke” agenda amid an increasingly dangerous and unstable world.

“For decades, support for the U.S. military was one of the few topics that brought Republicans and Democrats together. Each year, the House and Senate Armed Services Committees drafted a bill called the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), which authorized funding for the military and established policy priorities for the Department of Defense (DOD),” his op-ed began.

“Unfortunately, that is no longer the case. Under President Joe Biden and Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, our military has been infiltrated by woke politics that have become a massive distraction from their mission. And this has resulted in detrimental impacts to military readiness and lethality,” he said.

Biden has utilized the DOD to advance his political agenda. He has implemented divisive Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) training, required taxpayer funding for elective abortions and gender transition surgeries for servicemembers, and discharged over 8,000 healthy troops for refusing the COVID-19 vaccine, Tuberville charged.

“Thanks to Biden’s complete lack of leadership on the world stage, the United States is in one of the most vulnerable positions it has been in since the Cold War,” he wrote.

When President Biden made the ill-fated decision to withdraw from Afghanistan prematurely, leaving behind our allies and resulting in the loss of 13 American servicemembers, it sent a clear message to our adversaries: Now is your chance, he continued.

Since then, his policy of appeasement in foreign affairs has resulted in wars around the world, disrupted global trade, and put our troops in danger. This entirely avoidable situation, coupled with our porous borders, has put our nation at risk to a degree unprecedented in his lifetime, Tuberville went on.

“Now, more than ever, we need a military that is 100% focused on protecting our country and enhancing national security — not on implementing Biden’s woke agenda,” he wrote, adding that it has come with costs including most of the service branches being unable to fulfill annual recruitment numbers.

“This failure has created a national security emergency. As a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC), I have had the opportunity to ask our top military brass about the head-scratching decision to focus on woke policies instead of addressing the recruiting crisis. Not surprisingly, they don’t have answers,” the GOP senator said, adding that the most recent defense spending bill seeks to cut funding to the “woke” DEI programs.

He added:

The SASC-passed version of the NDAA cuts all identified funding for DEI programs at DOD. Under President Donald Trump, DOD was prevented from using federal funding for trainings on “divisive concepts.” Contrast that with Biden, who, on his first day in office, announced that the military would begin conducting training to “have knowledge of systemic and institutional racism and bias against underserved communities.” This divisive, hateful ideology has no place in the United States military. The military is not a social experiment; it is supposed to be a lethal fighting force feared by our enemies and comprised of our best and brightest. It is dangerous and insulting to waste our troops’ valuable time on political indoctrination.

The Senate NDAA also includes my amendment prohibiting the use of taxpayer dollars for any costs associated with funding gender transition surgeries. In 2021, the Biden administration announced it would begin directing taxpayer dollars to pay for hormone therapy, mental health care, and surgeries for transgender servicemembers to transition to their desired gender.

He added: “Biden has us on the brink of multiple wars. Now, it is more critical than ever that our military is laser-focused on asserting dominance over our enemies. We may have different priorities, but we should all agree that the United States military should attract and retain strong, smart servicemembers who will advance and protect our national security interests.”