At a February town hall, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth declared: “Our strength is our shared purpose … ” and he has begun correcting misguided policies of the past four years.
On the top of the list is expunging DEI. Likewise, the Naval War College’s Women, Peace, and Security program, or WPS, merits special attention as it has been usurped by activists and has diverged from its original purpose.
In defense of WPS, a harsh reality of warfare is that women and children are unwitting pawns and too often victims. They’ve been strategically targeted or have been used as human shields to inspire uprisings. However, the atrocities of the early post-Cold War era (1990-2000) witnessed an emerging embrace of women as essential in conflict resolution and “peace-building.” But this commonsense realization has also attracted efforts that distort or distract…
