A common view of the Pentagon on March 21, 2025. — Photograph by Reuters
The Pentagon on Friday ordered the identification and sequestration of supplies within the libraries of United States army academies and conflict faculties that comprise data on topics together with variety, anti-racism and transgender folks.
The transfer is the most recent step by the Protection Division to focus on pro-diversity content material and applications — an effort that led to the removing of troves of paperwork and pictures from its web site and swept up articles on African American pioneers such because the Tuskegee Airmen.
“Academic supplies… selling divisive ideas and gender ideology are incompatible with the division’s core mission,” mentioned a memo to senior Pentagon leaders, army commanders and different officers.
The memo directs officers to “promptly determine any division… library supplies probably incompatible with this core mission,” sequester it for overview and “decide an acceptable final disposition for these supplies.”
It mentioned a committee of “educated leaders, educators, and library professionals” had compiled an inventory of search phrases to determine supplies for overview.
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The record, which appeared in an attachment to the memo, consists of: Affirmative motion, allyship, anti-racism — United States, Essential Race Idea, Range Fairness and Inclusion, gender nonconformity, gender transition, and transgender folks — United States, amongst others.
“The next deliberate overview by consultants within the fields of training and the division’s mission will decide the last word disposition of the fabric, based mostly on the totality of the circumstances and findings of related details,” the memo mentioned.
In a separate memo on Friday, Pentagon chief Pete Hegseth gave the secretaries of US army departments 30 days to certify that the nation’s army academies won’t take into account race, ethnicity or intercourse for functions of admissions.
The academies should “provide admission based mostly completely on benefit,” Hegseth wrote within the memo./the
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