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The 2024 Election Was A Referendum On Reality
By Greg Salsbury, PhD STARRS Board of Advisors As the fog of battle from the 2024 presidential race is lifting, it is...
The narcissistic DC Swamp is gaslighting Americans again
STARRS For a long time, Americans have been gaslit by the narcissistic snob establishment “elites” in DC running...
What the Trump nominees Have Not Done—And Will Not Do
By Victor Davis Hanson | American Greatness Deflated by the resounding November defeat, the left now believes it can...
Incoming National Security Adviser Michael Waltz: Trump Is ‘Absolutely’ Standing by Pete Hegseth
By Kristina Wong | Breitbart News Incoming National Security Adviser Rep. Mike Waltz (R-FL) said Thursday that President...
‘Get This Woke Garbage Out’: GOP Senators Push Back on Effort to ‘Force’ Women into Service
By Sarah Holiday | Washington Stand Many have argued that the U.S. military has a number of misguided priorities under the...
Forgive, But Don’t Forget
ARMY magazine refused to publish this letter to the editor because they said it was “political.” We’re...
Senator: “One of my top priorities has been removing divisive DEI policies from our nation’s military”
(Press Release) Senator Schmitt Meets with President Trump’s Nominee for Department of Defense Pete Hegseth Earlier today (...
Senator: “We need a military that is 100% focused on protecting our country and enhancing national security.”
(Press Release) U.S. Senator Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) spoke on the Senate floor about the urgent need to pass the Fiscal Year...
Pete Hegseth Speaks Out, On Media Smears, Responding to Accusations, and How He’d Reform Military
Megyn Kelly interviewed Pete Hegseth, President-Elect Trump’s Secretary of Defense nominee, who has a chance to...
Judge upholds U.S. Naval Academy’s race-conscious admissions program
USNA can continue being racists By Melissa Quinn | CBS News A federal district court on Friday upheld the U.S. Naval...
How many transgenders are REALLY in the military?
We’re all being played: By Chris Bray | Substack Former US Army infantryman, Historian PhD Here’s a look at what...
Pete Hegseth Will Make The Pentagon Great Again
By Mark Lucas | The Federalist Lucas served as an infantry officer in the Iowa Army National Guard and was awarded the...
Iowa Sen. Joni Ernst Endorsed Transgender Military Service
By Shawn Fleetwood | The Federalist Sen. Joni Ernst, R-Iowa, previously endorsed allowing trans-identifying individuals to...
Conservative watchdog compiles list of ‘woke ideologues’ in military for Pete Hegseth to purge
By Ryan King | New York Post A conservative watchdog group has compiled a list of “woke ideologues” for Department of...
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Diversity Whack-a-Mole: Controversial DOD Employee Pops Back Up at Education Department
By Open The Books | Substack For the better part of two years, the Pentagon’s K-12 school system has been embroiled in...
‘Shell Game’: The Feds Said Anti-White Activist’s DOD DEI Unit Was Disbanded. She Was Actually Promoted.
By Luke Rosiak | Daily Wire A self-proclaimed “revolutionary” who was removed from a role where she pushed left-wing...
‘Celebrating Diversity’: Biden’s Army, Navy Nominees Pushed DEI Ideology While In Uniform
By Shawn Fleetwood | The Federalist Army and Navy officials recently promoted by President Joe Biden pushed neo-Marxist...
Don’t Give Up The Ship … Coronadan Contributes Essay To New Book
By Linda L. Austin | Coronado Eagle & Journal The Calvert Task Group website leads with a picture of the group’s book...
The ‘Woke’ Awakening
By Greg Salsbury, PhD STARRS Board of Advisors It is as though America has suddenly woken up from a bad dream—ironically and...
Free Hillsdale Course: Marxism, Socialism, and Communism
Hillsdale College is offering a free, online course about the root cause behind CRT/DEI and the woke agenda in the military...
Weakness, Not Wokeness, Plagues US Generals
By John Hughes, MD, former US Army officer, 4 combat tours of duty in Iraq and Afghanistan, USMA ’96 “The...
“DEI Needs to Be Part of Air Force DNA” Lt General Kevin Schneider
20-year Marine veteran J.T. dissects a video of an Air Force General talking about promoting DEI in the military: Some of...
Pete Hegseth’s War on the Woke: Can He Fix America’s Broken Military?
By Brandon Webb, former Navy Seal | SOFREP It used to be that the military was the last bastion of meritocracy in America...
Trump’s Defense Secretary nominee Hegseth gears up to target Pentagon DEI initiatives
By Steve Richards | Just the News At a time when multiple regional crises are threatening to spiral out of control, Donald...
DEI Training Makes You More Likely to Agree With … Literally Hitler: Study
By Ben Johnson | Washington Stand At the beginning of his administration, President Joe Biden explained why he planned to...
Military priority for Trump: Remove wokeness, restore standards
By Parrish Alford | American Family News President-elect Trump has plans to unilaterally remove transgender troops from the...
Trump Defense Secretary Pick Thinks ‘Marxists Are Our Enemies’
Well, yeah! Isn’t that what the US fought against for decades during the Cold War? Or maybe the writer was born after...
Congressman: Laser-focused on getting rid of DEI in the military
Texas Congressman Wesley Hunt, USMA ’04: “I’m a military guy and getting DEI and getting the woke stuff out of...
Message from Brig. General Christopher “Mookie” Walker
For those who don’t know me, my name is Chris, callsign “Mookie”, Walker and I retired last year as a Brigadier General...
Don’t Believe Anything Leftists Say About DEI
By Laurie Higgins | Break Through with Jeanne Ives (USMA ’87) In all the Thanksgiving busyness, some Americans may...
DEI programs can actually escalate hostility and racial tensions, new study claims
‘Shocked, shocked I am.’ By David Propper | New York Post Diversity, Equity and Inclusion programs popular in...
Senator Hagerty: Service Members Re-Enlisting After Hegseth Nominated
By Daily Wire News Sen. Bill Hagerty (R-TN) said over the weekend that he has heard of stories of U.S. service members who...
DoD Needs This Change Agent
By S.L. Nelson Served from the tactical to strategic level as a military officer Success in today’s world favors smart...
Dr. Mick Zais BG (USA, ret.), Shoshana Bryen and Dr. Stephen Bryen Join STARRS Board of Advisors
President/CEO of (STARRS), Dr. Ron Scott announced that Dr. Mick Zais, Shoshana Bryen and Dr. Stephen Bryen have joined the...
Rebuilding our Warrior Class
Seb Gorka talks to Trump advisor Robert Wilkie about President Trump’s plans to save the military from DEI.
U.S. Service Academies Must End Race-Based Admissions
By Senator Todd Young, USNA ’95, former Captain in the USMC Ending racial preferences at America’s service academies...
Let’s Make the Air Force Academy Soar Once More
By Patrick “Kit” Bobko, USAF veteran, USAFA ’91 Here are five things to make the venerable institution, which has struggled...
Defense contractors embracing DEI could be target of Trump’s second term
By Cami Mondeaux | Washington Examiner Defense contractors that have embraced diversity, equity, and inclusion policies...
Maj. Gen. (Ret.) Joseph Arbuckle’s Call for Military Reform in a Post-Biden Era
On the show “Washington Watch with Tony Perkins”, guest host Rep. Mark Alford interviews STARRS Vice Chairman...
Americans
By Capt. Guy Higgins, US Navy ret, USNA ’69 Member of the Calvert Task Group If you listen to, well, anything, today –...
Dismantle DEI Act Passes Out of House Oversight Committee
(Press Release) Congressman Michael Cloud’s (R-TX) bill, the Dismantle DEI Act, passed out of the House Oversight Committee...
Should women serve in combat? Military experts weigh in
By Peter Pinedo | Fox News President-elect Donald Trump’s pick to lead the Defense Department, Pete Hegseth, is facing a...
Cognitive Diversity and Constitutional Values in Today’s Military: A Conversation with Navy Veterans from the Calvert Task Group
STARRS & Stripes host Commander Al Palmer, USN ret, leads a thought-provoking discussion that challenges current...
DEI’s Impact on our Military with West Point Grad Meaghan Mobbs
By Patrice Onwuka | Philanthropy Roundtable America’s military has been known as the greatest in the world, but over the...
4 Messes Trump Will Have to Mop Up from Biden’s Military Fails
By Suzanne Bowdey | Washington Stand While the media is hyperventilating over Pete Hegseth’s tattoos and Donald Trump’s...
Here’s How The Trump Admin Can Purge DEI From America’s Military And Foreign Policy
By Spencer Lindquist | The Daily Wire From “anti-racism” trainings to bans on “misgendering,” the Biden administration made...
Need to be able to have a conversation about women in the infantry
Secretary of Defense-designee Pete Hegseth has opened up a needed conversation about women in the infantry and ground combat...
Erik Prince: U.S. Military in a “very, very dangerous place,” needs new leadership
Blackwater founder Erik Prince joined Will Cain to diagnose the issues within the U.S. Military from going...
DEI in Military with Matt Lohmeier
STARRS Executive VP Matt Lohmeier was on GSD Nation’s “Programming Lions” discussing a variety of topics...
Purdy Statement to USNA Board of Visitors
To: The Honorable C. A. “Dutch” Ruppersberger (D-MD) Chairman U. S. Naval Academy Board of Visitors -and...
SECDEF Austin’s Woke Destruction of Reconciliation Memorial
By Lt. Col. Edwin L. Kennedy, Jr, US Army ret and Ms Lunnelle Sigel Of all the woke agenda advanced by the Biden-Harris...
Congressman: Hegseth Must Reform ‘Woke’ Military
Look at the list below of 25 woke examples in the military starting in 2021. By Ben Johnson | Washington Stand As Democrats...
How To Get The DEI Out Of DOD
By Morgan Murphy | The Daily Caller News Foundation Morgan Murphy is a military thought leader, former press secretary to...
Pete Hegseth Could Bring An End To DEI In The Military As Defense Sec
By Spencer Lindquist | Daily Wire Conservatives are optimistic that Pete Hegseth will purge left-wing ideology from the...
SecDef Pete Hegseth Will Be a Welcome Injection of Vitamin I (Infantry)
Naval Academy Professor fluent in DEI and male-shaming
MacArthur Society on Dr. Steve Turley Show
New Minor at West Point: American Foundations
Space Force commander vows to end DEI training in military after being fired for criticizing Marxist CRT/DEI agenda in DOD
Recommending Brig. Gen. Schwalier for the Air Force ‘Plucking Board’
How Pete Hegseth as Defense Secretary Could Transform DoDEA
USNA dodged the bullet by uninviting this unhinged speaker
Biden Promotes DEI-Pushing Air Force Officials On His Way Out The Door
Air Force Academy official forms refer to Fathers and Mothers as “Non-Birthing Parents”
Pete Hegseth will de-woke the Pentagon and restore the military’s mission
Labarbera: In Support of Major Pete Hegseth as Secretary of Defense
Huckabee to Newsmax: Hegseth Will Boot Woke From Military
Naval Academy Graduate Charged with Hate Crime After Pride Flag Ripped from Annapolis Shop
John Frankman, who was forced out of Army over COVID vaccine, wants to fill Gaetz’s seat
Military Leadership Indoctrinated by DEI?
The DEI industrial complex is about to be destroyed
A Conversation with USAF Brigadier General Christopher “Mookie” Walker
Modern Warriors Veterans Panel with Hegseth and Lohmeier
Where Americans Stand on NDAA 2025 issues: DEI, Climate Change and Foreign Aid
Open Letters
Air Force / Air Force Academy
Mom Sues Military Officials Who Allegedly Retaliated Against Her Complaints Of School ‘Polysexual’ Posters
A New Jersey mom is suing military officials who deemed her social media post voicing concern over an elementary school’s...
‘Use Your Privilege’: Air Force Promotes All-Day ‘Allyship’ Training
Note: the word “ally” is a Marxist term. See here. Maoist-level training indoctrination is the only way to...
Army / West Point
US Military Academies Producing Beauty Queens
Really?? Sign of things getting quite off track at the academies. From Task & Purpose: The women who wear the crowns...
Hours Before Army Dropped COVID-19 Rules, GOP Reps Pressured Top Officials For Answers
Hours before the U.S. Army dropped COVID-19 policies, including the COVID-19 vaccine requirement, two GOP reps called out...
Navy / Naval Academy
Our Navy is “in extremis,” a nautical expression that indicates imminent danger
By Capt. Brent Ramsey, US Navy, ret “Now Hear This” is the classic alert in the Navy that something important for all hands...
Are the Military Services Prepared for Race-Neutral Admissions? Part II
By Major Geoffrey Irving, U.S. Marine Corps Reserve . . . . First, the Supreme Court required that any use of racial...