# 2025-02181: Military Shuts Down All DEI Offices in Merit Overhaul

2025-02181, Restoring America's Fighting Force, is a Federal Register presidential document from Executive Office of the President published 2025-02-03, effective 2025-01-27 (as of 2026-11-04).

- Canonical: https://policyrisk.com/federal-register/2025-02181
- As of: 2026-11-04
- Plain-text twin of the page above; the HTML and this file carry the same facts.

## Facts
- Document number: 2025-02181
- Title: Restoring America's Fighting Force
- Type: Presidential Document
- Agencies: Executive Office of the President
- Citation: 90 FR 8763
- Published: 2025-02-03
- Effective: 2025-01-27
- Comments close: not stated
- Significant: no
- Touches household money: no
- Regulation identifier numbers: none
- Last updated: 2026-11-04

## In one line

Military Shuts Down All DEI Offices in Merit Overhaul

## Summary

This order affects all branches of the U.S. Armed Forces and ends all Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) offices and programs that give special treatment based on race or sex. It aims to bring back a focus on merit and fairness, boosting military strength and unity. The changes start right away and will shift how hiring and promotions work, with no extra spending on DEI efforts.

## Effects PRIA read

- End DEI Offices Across the Military: mixed, high. The order directs the Secretary of Defense and the Secretary of Homeland Security (for the U.S. Coast Guard) to abolish every Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) office and any vestiges (including sub-offices, programs, elements, or initiatives) that promote race- or sex-based preferences. It al…
- Ban on Teaching 'Divisive Concepts' and Gender Ideology: mixed, medium. The order prohibits the Department of Defense and the Armed Forces from promoting, advancing, or inculcating specified theories — including 'divisive concepts,' race or sex stereotyping or scapegoating, claims that America's founding documents are racist or sexist, and 'gender ideology' — and bars…
- Service Academy Curriculum and Leadership Review: mixed, low. The order requires the Secretary of Defense and the Secretary of Homeland Security to review the leadership, curriculum, and instructors of the U.S. Service Academies and other defense academic institutions to ensure alignment with the order, and it requires those institutions to teach that America…

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## Sources
- [2025-02181 on federalregister.gov](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/02/03/2025-02181/restoring-americas-fighting-force)
- [2025-02181 as published (PDF)](https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2025-02-03/pdf/2025-02181.pdf)

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Source: PRIA, https://policyrisk.com/federal-register/2025-02181 (as of 2026-11-04).