Hegseth Orders End to Race Consideration in Admissions at Military Service Academies

West Point Graduation 2023

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has ordered all military service academies to no longer consider race, ethnicity or sex for admissions, according to a memo released Friday. The move appears to not only effectively end affirmative action efforts at the three military service academies, which were spared from a Supreme Court ruling on race-based admissions two […]

Hegseth Orders Army to Cut Costs by Merging Some Commands and Slashing Jobs

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth arrives for a National Day of Prayer event in the Rose Garden

WASHINGTON — The Army is planning a sweeping transformation that will merge or close headquarters, dump outdated vehicles and aircraft, slash as many as 1,000 headquarters staff in the Pentagon and shift personnel to units in the field, according to a new memo and U.S. officials familiar with the changes. In a memo released Thursday, […]