Naval Academy tosses nearly 400 books in the trash to purge “woke ideology” that has no place in America’s military academies.
At a Glance
- U.S. Naval Academy has removed approximately 400 books from its Nimitz Library to comply with Trump administration orders eliminating DEI content
- The removal represents less than 0.1% of the library’s 590,000 print books collection
- Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is leading the charge to restore the military’s focus on warfighting rather than social experimentation
- The Naval Academy has also announced it will not consider race, ethnicity, or sex in admissions decisions
- This purge represents a significant shift back to the military’s core mission after years of progressive infiltration
Finally Cleaning House at Annapolis
The United States Naval Academy, that hallowed institution where America’s future naval officers are forged, is finally cutting the progressive fat from its educational diet. In a move that has leftists clutching their pearls, the academy has removed nearly 400 books promoting Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) propaganda from its Nimitz Library.
This purge represents a microscopic 0.07% of the library’s total collection of 590,000 print books, but you’d think they were burning the Constitution itself based on the liberal meltdown that’s ensued. For those of us who believe military academies should focus on creating warriors rather than social justice activists, this housecleaning is long overdue.
The removal comes as part of President Trump’s broader initiative to eliminate the cancerous spread of DEI ideology throughout government institutions. While our enemies around the world are building hypersonic missiles and expanding their territorial ambitions, our military has been busy hosting drag shows and publishing diversity handbooks.
The President’s Executive Orders have put an end to this nonsense, barring DEI material from federal agencies and prohibiting military institutions from promoting these divisive theories that undermine unit cohesion and combat readiness.
Hegseth Leads the Charge
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, a combat veteran who understands what actually matters on the battlefield, has been the tip of the spear in this effort to reclaim our military institutions from social engineers. Hegseth visited the Naval Academy personally to emphasize restoring the focus on what the military is actually supposed to do: win wars. The Pentagon has remained tight-lipped about whether other service academies have received similar directives, but one can only hope this common-sense approach spreads throughout all branches of our armed forces.
“The President’s guidance (lawful orders) is clear: No more DEI at Dept. of Defense”, says Hegseth.
While the specific titles removed haven’t been disclosed, we can imagine the kind of “scholarly literature” that got the boot – books explaining how aircraft carriers are expressions of toxic masculinity or how the chain of command is a tool of systemic oppression.
The Naval Academy’s mission is to develop midshipmen “morally, mentally, and physically,” not to indoctrinate them with radical theories that have zero relevance to naval warfare. Our military academies should be teaching war strategy and leadership, not gender studies and the 57 flavors of sexual identity.
Restoring Merit in Admissions
This book purge follows the academy’s announcement that it will no longer consider race, ethnicity, or sex in its admissions decisions. Despite the Supreme Court’s 2023 ruling against race-based college admissions having a military academy exception, the Naval Academy has chosen to embrace merit-based selection – a radical concept that the best qualified candidates should be admitted regardless of their immutable characteristics. Imagine that! Selecting future military officers based on their qualifications rather than checking diversity boxes. What a revolutionary idea.
According to a Navy spokesperson: “We can confirm the U.S. Naval Academy has removed nearly 400 books from their Nimitz Library collection in order to ensure compliance with all directives outlined in Executive Orders issued by the President”
The Pentagon initially went overboard in its DEI purge, mistakenly removing web pages about historical events and figures, including Black veterans. These were later restored, proving that the goal isn’t to erase history but to eliminate the ideological poison that has been injected into our military institutions.
The Naval Academy’s actions represent a return to sanity and a recognition that the primary purpose of our military is to defend the nation, not to serve as a laboratory for social experimentation. Our enemies aren’t worried about having the right proportion of every identity group in their officer corps – they’re focused on defeating us. It’s high time we got back to focusing on the same.
