Former Military Leaders Raise Alarm Over Critical Race Theory in US Military Academies

Published on January 12, 2024

Former military leaders have sounded the alarm over the inclusion of Critical Race Theory (CRT) in the curriculum of U.S. military academies. They spoke to congressional members during a Jan. 11 hearing of the National Security, the Border, and Foreign Affairs Committee, entitled “The Risks of Progressive Ideologies in the U.S. Military,” where several former members offered their frustration at the idea of CRT and Diversity Equity and Inclusion (DEI) criteria being used in military decision making. The notion that racism is institutionalized in the United States and that these institutions serve to uphold white supremacy in society is at the core of CRT, which is a collection of concepts that relies on that assertion to claim much of society should be changed....