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WASHINGTON: US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has disbanded a committee that provided recommendations for women serving in the military, including on their well-being and treatment, alleging on Tuesday it had pursued a “divisive feminist agenda.”
The Defense Advisory Committee on Women in the Services was created in 1951 and provided advice on “recruitment, retention, employment, integration, well-being, and treatment of women” in the military, according to the committee’s website.
On Tuesday, a Pentagon spokesperson said Hegseth had decided to terminate the committee because it is “focused on advancing a divisive feminist agenda that hurts combat readiness, while Secretary Hegseth has focused on advancing uniform, sex-neutral standards across the Department.”
The Committee is among the oldest advisory panels within the US military and has submitted over 1,100 recommendations to Pentagon chiefs, with about 94 percent either fully or partially adopted, according to the committee’s website.
“Recommendations have historically been instrumental in effecting changes to laws and policies pertaining to military women,” it says.
Hegseth has taken aim at diversity, equity and inclusion efforts at the Pentagon since he took office. He previously canceled a program that sought to increase the role of women in national security sectors that was first signed into law by President Donald Trump in 2017.
With Hegseth as defense secretary, the Pentagon has ended commemorations of identity month celebrations, like Black History Month, while some books have been removed from the Naval Academy, including Maya Angelou’s memoir.
Hegseth’s moves come as US media organizations also raise free speech concerns after the Pentagon announced on Friday restrictions on media coverage of the US military, requiring news organizations to agree they will not disclose information that the government has not approved for release. 

THE UNITED NATIONS, United States: Indonesia’s leader on Tuesday offered to send at least 20,000 troops as peacekeepers to Gaza to safeguard any future peace deal.
Addressing the UN General Assembly, President Prabowo Subianto said that the world’s most populous Muslim-majority country wanted a peace that shows that “might cannot make right.”
“We believe in the UN. We will continue to serve where peace needs guardians — not with just words, but with boots on the ground,” he said.
“If and when the UN Security Council and this great Assembly decide, Indonesia is prepared to deploy 20,000 or even more of our sons and daughters to help secure peace in Gaza,” he said.
He said that Indonesia was also willing to send peacekeepers elsewhere including in Ukraine, Sudan or Libya.
The United States and Arab states have been speaking for months, but to little avail, about a post-war plan in Gaza which has been devastated by two years of Israeli attacks in response to an assault by Hamas.
Israel has repeatedly demanded the destruction of Hamas. Its latest offensive seeks to take over the largest urban center of Gaza City, but previous proposals have called for foreign powers to take over the territory’s security.
France and ������Ƶ, in a resolution adopted by the vast majority of the General Assembly, called for a temporary international mission to stabilize Gaza as part of a ceasefire.