Key Takeaways
- Refocusing Priorities: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth disbanded the Defense Advisory Committee on Women in the Services, saying it pursued a “divisive feminist agenda” instead of combat readiness.
- Ending Woke Agendas: Hegseth has consistently cut DEI-driven programs and identity-based observances, insisting the Pentagon return to uniform standards and merit-based performance.
- Mission Over Politics: By scrapping panels and programs rooted in ideology, Hegseth is putting America’s national security back where it belongs—on discipline, readiness, and results.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is shaking up the Pentagon—and not a moment too soon. On Tuesday, Hegseth disbanded the Defense Advisory Committee on Women in the Services, a 74-year-old panel he says abandoned its mission in favor of pushing a “divisive feminist agenda.”
The committee, formed in 1951, had long claimed to offer guidance on recruitment, retention, and the well-being of women in uniform. Over its history, it submitted more than 1,100 recommendations, with nearly 94% adopted in some form. But Hegseth isn’t impressed. His focus is clear: restoring merit, discipline, and sex-neutral standards that strengthen America’s military rather than weaken it.
A Pentagon spokesperson defended the move, saying the committee “focused on advancing a divisive feminist agenda that hurts combat readiness, while Secretary Hegseth has focused on advancing uniform, sex-neutral standards across the Department.” In other words—no more social engineering at the expense of national defense.
This isn’t Hegseth’s first strike against the left’s cultural crusade in the armed forces. He’s already canceled DEI-driven programs and ditched identity-based observances like Black History Month at the Pentagon, insisting the military must return to one mission: defending the United States.
The left may howl, but Hegseth’s approach is rooted in common sense. The battlefield is no place for woke experiments. Under his leadership, the Pentagon is putting readiness before ideology, merit before quotas, and mission before politics. That’s what America’s warriors—and taxpayers—deserve.