Pentagon orders military to pull books related to DEI and ‘gender ideology’

Military leaders and commanders at the Pentagon were ordered on Friday to go through their libraries and review all books that were related to diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI), in the US military’s latest anti-DEI move. The department gave leaders until 21 May to remove the books. The department ordered the administrations to certify these standards by mid-June. The memo to leaders on books follows a similar order that was given to the military academies, including the US Naval Academy, that led to the removal of nearly 400 books from its library. The department said that a temporary “academic libraries committee” would convene to help the other colleges and academies remove similar books from their collections.