Hegseth stands up anti-DEI task force

Like many Pentagon chiefs who have come before him, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is standing up a task force to support his top priority for the department. In this case, it’s rooting out policies, education, and training that relate to diversity-equity-inclusion efforts—including a few that don’t actually exist. In a memo released Wednesday, Hegseth announced the creation of the “Restoring America’s Fighting Force Task Force,” whose purpose, he wrote,