Military academies must pursue merit, not affirmative action in admissions, according to Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has ordered all military service academies to no longer consider race, ethnicity or sex for ...

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth has just delivered a masterstroke for America’s military future, and the left is ...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Friday sent a memo to West Point, the U.S. Naval Academy and the U.S. Air Force Academy, saying that all future admissions will be based solely on merit.

In a move that signals a significant shift in military academy admissions policy, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth issued a ...

The Pentagon ordered the removal of race as a factor in admissions at the military service academies and directed them ...

Pentagon also orders libraries on military bases to pull books addressing 'diversity, anti-racism or gender issues.' ...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ordered military academies to consider only merit during the admissions process, another blow to DEI.

With new directives, Trump’s Pentagon chief zeroes in on admission to the nation’s service academies and purging “divisive” ...

Hegseth directed schools to rank applicants by an aggregate score factoring in athletic ability and past military experience, ...

"'Race, ethnicity, or sex' can NO LONGER BE CONSIDERED. Our officers will be the best of the best—full stop," he wrote on X.

Hegseth argued that merit-based admissions will improve the military’s “lethality” and “warfighting readiness.” AFP via Getty Images “Selecting anyone but the best erodes lethality ...