WHY HASN’T DEI In DoD BEEN ELIMINATED YET?
By John Hughes
July 18, 2025
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On 27 January 2025, President Trump made good on his campaign promise and officially ended DEI in the military by signing two Executive Orders. Titled "Prioritizing Military Excellence and Readiness" and "Restoring America's Fighting Force," they were self-explanatory and were to be implemented immediately by the Secretary of Defense.
After working through the specifics and a fixing some mistakes that were made, the SECDEF superficially appeared to have resolved the DEI problem. Then, additional cases of DEI-embracing personnel emerged. On 8 May 2025, USMA professor Graham Parsons published an op-ed in the New York Times called “West Point is Supposed to Educate, Not Indoctrinate.” He later left USMA. In July 2025, CDMedia reported that yet another professor, this time in the West Point English Department, was bragging on his public West Point page about editing a modern version of a Shakespeare work through a lens of Critical Theory.
This week I went to a military installation’s military hospital and saw a research poster in the waiting room for patients. It was a poster for the same DEI trial concerning racism in healthcare that was there three years ago under Biden’s administration that pushed DEI. The original trial poster that was posted in the same waiting room 3 years ago is attached. Apparently the Army medical units are disregarding the executive order and continuing to pursue DEI.
https://armedforces.press/why-hasnt-dei-in-dod-been-eliminated-yet/
