The Military Doesn’t Need DEI

Is the Marine operating a howitzer going to be more proficient if he’s familiar with the work of Ibram X. Kendi?

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U.S. Marines with Fox Battery, Battalion Landing Team, First Battalion, Fifth Marines, 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit, conduct a fire mission with an M777A2 lightweight 155mm howitzer during exercise Cobra Gold 2020 in Ban Dan Lan Hoi, Thailand, February 29, 2020.

Lance Corporal Kenny Nunez Bigay/U.S. Marine Corps

House Republicans voted to end DEI programs and personnel at the Pentagon, and one wonders whether the U.S. military will ever be the same.

The provision was one of a number of anti-woke measures in the House-passed National Defense Authorization Act — including reversing the Pentagon’s new abortion-enabling paid travel and leave policies — that have occasioned sputtering outrage.

Rich Lowry

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Rich Lowry

Rich Lowry is the editor in chief of National Review.

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