Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth Challenged on Need for DEI in Military in New World War II Book

LOS ANGELES - April 21, 2025 - PRLog -- Political analyst Earl Ofari Hutchinson on Monday, April 21 sent a personal autographed copy of his new book How World War II Remade America details again the profound role played by minorities and women in America's victory in the war.

Hutchinson includes a major chapter on the countless critical roles played by Blacks, Hispanics, Native Americans, Asian Americans and women in winning the war. He challenges Hegseth to recognize their profound contribution .

Hutchinson made clear to Hegseth that his new book How World War II Remade America is not another rehash of the monumental events of the nearly four years the U.S. was engaged in the war. This story has been told in many minute, carefully researched histories and accounts by many war vets, officials, military historians, scholars, and experts.

It is not a definitive study of the colossal changes that World War II ushered in. Rather, it is a broad survey, a kind of pulling together, a compilation if you will, of the specific military, security, and technical and industrial products, as well as the major political and social movements for change that shook America during and after World War II. They would not have been possible, or would have been delayed for decades, without the war.

Hutchinson reiterates to Hegseth that it's a massive blind spot to totally scrap DEI within the military. This simply perpetuates the distortion of America's military history.

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