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STARRS SITREP Newsletter, Edition 28
Read the August 2023 edition of STARRS SITREP newsletter with articles by STARRS members. STARRS SITREP...
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At West Point, the Honor Code will become “aspirational”
West Point graduates have alerted STARRS to a questionable statement from the USMA Superintendent when he was...
Strategic Plan Unveils Army Corps Of Engineers’ Goal To Force DEI Onto Service Members
A strategic plan produced by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) reveals how the branch intends to force...
U.S. Military-Sanctioned Diversity Initiatives are Out of Control
By James Fitzpatrick, Army Veteran As those who have ever served in the military know, the United States...
Message to Senators: Listen to the People
By Lt. Gen. Rod Bishop (USAF ret) STARRS Chairman of the Board General Bishop recently participated in a...
Message to Senators: DEI is a Trojan Horse
By Major General Joe Arbuckle, US Army ret STARRS Vice Chairman General Arbuckle recently participated in a...
Message to Senators: What are Service Academies Hiding?
By Colonel Ron Scott, PhD (USAF ret) STARRS President Dr. Scott recently participated in a livestreamed...
Watch 20 experts explain why the DEI agenda is dangerous for the military
By Frank Gaffney If addicts are blessed, or simply lucky, people who love them will organize a life-saving...
The Role of the Smartphone and Digital Content in the Left’s Revolution
By Greg Salsbury STARRS Board of Advisors Christopher Rufo, Douglas Murray, and Victor Davis Hanson have all...
Joint Force Quarterly Enters Wokeland
Joint Force Quarterly, the premier journal of National Defense University (NDU) Press, has entered wokeland...
Army Lawyer COL Winston Williams Signals Service Academy Cadets Can Violate UCMJ…If They Are Woke
By John Hughes, MD, USMA ’96 LTG Steven Gilland hosted the 20th Annual Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion...
If The Pentagon Gets Away With Funding Abortion Without A Vote In Congress, It Won’t Stop There
By Elaine Donnelly President, Center for Military Readiness STARRS Board of Advisors Sen. Tommy Tuberville is...
18 House Republicans Help Democrats Kill Amendment Defunding Pentagon ‘Pride Month’ Parties
Nearly 20 House Republicans joined their Democrat colleagues on Wednesday in killing a bill amendment that...
LGBT-Identifying Vets Sue for ‘Reparations’ from the US Military
Americans removed from the U.S. military because they identified as lesbian or nonbinary have sued the U.S...
Marine Corps Leaders Struggle with How to Train Female Infantry Officers Amid Worries About Standards
In 2018, a Marine general who heads the service’s training command wrote about his concern that the...
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House Republicans Focus DOD on Winning Combat Wars, Not Culture Wars
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Stick a fork in West Point, they’re done… wait until you see the new degree they’re offering…
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What the Secretary of Air Force’s Political Commissars Office is up to
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PAPER: Should We Play Politics with the Nation’s Defense?
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At West Point, Racism Becomes More Important Than Military Readiness
By Hans von Spakovsky, senior legal fellow at The Heritage Foundation Students for Fair Admissions, the same...
Where Does Loyalty Reside?
By Lt. Gen. Thomas McInerney (USAF ret), USMA ’59 Major General Paul E Vallely (US Army ret), USMA...
Jim Banks: The Navy Should Apologize for Propping Up Ibram X. Kendi, Whose Antiracist Research Center Is Under Investigation
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USAFA’s commandant makes culture at Academy top priority
(USAFA Article; photo above is the featured photo on the article) When Brig. Gen. Gavin Marks assumed...
The United States Air Force Academy’s White Boy #2
By Dr. Scott Sturman, MD US Air Force Academy ’72 Over the past 15 years the United States Air Force Academy...
The War for the Military
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West Point Sued After Director of Admissions Brags About What Happens to White Applicants
When Ibram X. Kendi’s preposterous thesis that “the only remedy to past discrimination is present...
‘Not Grounded In Fact’: Military Academy Set To Be The New Battleground Over Race-Based Admissions
By Kate Anderson, The Daily Caller News Foundation The West Point military academy is set to be the center of...
Merit in the Armed Forces
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Memes: Looking for a lost jet
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How did the VA become SO woke?
The US Department of Veteran Affairs has a survey for veterans asking them how they identify themselves...
Congress Has the Power to Fix Our Military
By Elaine Donnelly President, Center for Military Readiness (CMR) STARRS Board of Advisors Several measures...
Pentagon rolls back gender-neutral pronoun requirement for joint military awards
The Pentagon quietly reversed its gender pronoun policy for award citations on Tuesday after it had...
The Mistake of Introducing Tenure at the United States Air Force Academy
By Major General Bentley Rayburn, USAF ret STARRS Board of Advisors It was recently discovered that the...
‘Diversity’ is NOT a National Security Imperative
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American Maoism
The Left moves operationally and according to a battle logic known as “dialectical political warfare.” The...
In Leaked Video, Veterans’ Affairs Tells Providers To Promote Abortion, Avoid Saying ‘Mother’ And ‘Baby’
The Department of Veterans Affairs teaches its so-called health care providers to encourage abortions...
America’s ‘Rainbow’ Military Is On Track To Lose Another Major War
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Lawmakers grill military academies on if they ‘condone’ DEI speakers’ controversial statements
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Military Leaders Left Speechless After GOP Rep Asks If The Military Is Ignoring Biden’s Diversity Order
By Micaela Burrow, The Daily Caller News Foundation Military leaders were briefly rendered speechless...
Hearing: Meritocracy in the Military Services: Accession, Promotion, and Command Selection
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Senate Confirms Charles Q. Brown As Chairman Of The Joint Chiefs Of Staff After Schumer Brings Vote
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Space Force Smacks Down General’s Claim They Assign Personnel Based On Red State Abortion, ‘Anti-LGBTQ’ Laws
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De-Woking the Pentagon: Returning the Military’s Focus to Its Mission
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Tuberville Forces Floor Vote on Military Nominations
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Lt. Gen (Ret.) Keith Kellogg on FY24 House Defense Appropriations Bill
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U.S. Rep. Greg Steube Introduces the Preserve Military Recognition Act
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Gen. Mark Milley Asserts Military Is ‘Not Woke’
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When a Diversity Conference Could Benefit from an Increase in Diversity
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Air Force / Air Force Academy
Air Force issues guidance on COVID-related adverse actions; Religious Accommodation Requests
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Only Fat Dumb Criminals Can Make the Air Force ‘Diverse’
Air Force Chief of Staff Charles Q. Brown Jr, Biden’s nominee to replace Milley as Chairman of the Joint...
Army / West Point
Driving CRT/DEI from the Military
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The Naming Commission Comes for West Point
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Navy / Naval Academy
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STARRS Responds to US Supreme Court Ruling and Service Academies
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