Pic: Military academy admissions to be merit-based, SECDEF Hegseth says

The military: Hegseth's escalating culture war

The U.S. service academies are under attack—by the Pentagon, said Greg Jaffe in The New York Times. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth last week ordered West Point and other military academies to purge their libraries of books covering "divisive concepts" such as race, gender, and the treatment of Native Americans. The service academies, Hegseth and President Trump declared in a memo, cannot teach that "America's founding documents are racist or sex…

Pic: Military academy admissions to be merit-based, SECDEF Hegseth says

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth released a memorandum on Friday requiring future admission decisions for West Point, the U.S. Air Force Academy, and the U.S. Naval Academy to be based “exclusively on merit” with “no consideration of race, ethnicity, or sex.” In Friday’s memorandum to the U.S. military academies, Hegseth wrote, “The Military Service Academies (MSA) are elite warfighting institutions with long histories of producing world class …