Military academies that have been criticized to remove DEI-related books from libraries

In the US Naval Academy there is not what is attentive to the shelves – but what is missing.

According to a list of 381 titles published in the New York Times, the institution’s Nimitz library was equipped, including work on exploring the breed, gender and national identity.

That contains “I know why the cage bird” from Maya Angelou “,” How to “Ibram X. Kendi,” Bodies in Doubt “by Elizabeth Reis and” White Rage “by Carol Anderson is immediately banned – just” not immediately “, a spokesman for the naval academy, cmdr. Tim Hawkins, said. A room was laid in which the guests could no longer access them.

January 29 by President Donald Trump entitled “Ending Radical Indoctrination in the K-12 School” was expanded to cover the country’s military academies. With the language, the so-called “discriminatory justice ideology” and “gender-specific ideology”-that later referred to the “tyranny of the so-called guidelines for diversity, justice and inclusion”, the order became detailed distances, ratings and institutional confusion.

“There are no clear criteria,” Katherine Kuzminski, head of study in the center for new American security, told ABC News. “It messs up the tour – how do we ensure compliance with compliance without being accused of being over -corrected?”

Kuzminski said, military leader, tied to a strict code to follow lawful orders, arise with what she described as a unclear of politics. “Especially in the Air Force,” she noticed, “when the Tuskee Airm Learning module was removed from the basic training for a few days, the leadership tried to achieve the best intentions.”

The Department of the Navy Leadership decided which books had to be removed in the Naval Academy Library, Hawkins told ABC News.

First, the officials searched the catalog of the Nimitz library using key words to identify books that required further review, said Hawkins. About 900 books were identified during the preliminary search, and the department officials then examined the provisional list exactly to determine which books had to require the removal of the instructions issued by the president to comply with instructions.

Ultimately, this resulted in almost 400 books were selected to remove the Nimitz library collection, he said.

Historians and former military officers said ABC News that the effects were terrifying. Richard Kohn, a military historian and former chief historian of the Air Force, sees the move as a “cleaning effort”. “It shows a certain kind of weakness in the trust of the current administration,” he said. “You are determined to address your Maga constituency by rolling back for decades of progress in terms of breed, religion and diversity.”

For Kohn, removing these books from the shelves sends a clear message to cadets: Avoid certain ideas to find ahead in the military.

The retired US Air Force Col. Thomas Keaney, a senior fellow at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, spoke about how far the academies got – and how far he said they risk. “When I was there,” he said, “it was only an institution for white ones,” he said about the US Air Force Academy. “It was the poorer for that.” He insisted on education for exposure. “They don’t harm people by letting them read,” he said.

In a letter to the secretaries of the army, the Navy and the Air Force, Adam Smith and Chrissy Houlahan described the book “an obvious attack on the first change” and “an alarming return to the censorship of the McCarthy time”.

They asked to know who ordered the distances, the process used and what titles were washed up while they pushed an immediate hold.

The academies have issued carefully formulated answers – or none at all – if they are asked about a comment by ABC News.

The US Merchant Marine Academy did not respond to repeated inquiries. The US Naval Academy, the US Air Force Academy and the US Coast Guard Academy have published short explanations in which compliance with Executive Orders was confirmed, but offered only a few details.

“The Coast Guard Academy carries out a comprehensive review of its curriculum to ensure compliance with all executive orders,” said a spokesman.

The spokesman for the US Naval Academy confirmed that “almost 400 books” from his Nimitz library had been removed, which explained the move as an effort “in order to comply with compliance with all the executive regulations issued by the President”.

He emphasized, as he described the robust collection of the library – 590,000 printing books and thousands of academic resources – to implement the book, compared to the size of the overall collection as minor. “The mission of the Naval Academy,” added the spokesman, “should develop morally, mentally and physically midshipms … to prepare them for the career of the service for our country.”

At the US Air Force Academy, a spokesman found that a review of the curriculum was “in order to ensure that our executives are adhered to”.

But outside of voices in military academic circles warned the problem of compliance with compliance and say that it occurs in the core of intellectual development.

“You cannot make ideas safe for people, but you can make people safe for ideas,” said Kohn, who specializes in civil military relationships. “If you do not look after students in the academies to understand what is going on in American society, don’t really raise them.”

Keaney, the former US Air Force Representative, was more prudent, but equally concerned. “I don’t think anyone is hurt by reading something – so nutty or outside of his own culture,” he said. “It does not harm people by exposing them to ideas. On the contrary, they train them to be demanding managers. Give them a chance. Don’t let them deal with ignorance.”