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When a Judge Incorrectly Rules Race as Legit in Naval Academy Admissions (Part 3 of 3)
By Capt. Charles “Cully” Stimson, US Navy JAG Corps, ret Can the U.S. Naval Academy continue to use race and ethnicity in...
Lohmeier and Gray: Fighting for a Military That Has Found Itself Bursting with Marxist Ideology and Sitting at a Dangerous Juncture
By J. M. Phelps | Gateway Pundit On Jan. 20, 2025, President-elect Donald Trump will inherit a U.S. military plagued with...
The Coming Fight to Abolish DEI
By Christopher Rufo There is a great clanging and clamoring around the offices in Washington, D.C. and Mar-a-Lago in Florida...
Oops, He (LTG Gilland) Did It Again! Another West Point Scandal!
By John Hughes, MD, USMA ’96 Here we go again… Last week national news outlets reported that ProPublica tried to...
Femininity in the Air Force (Actual USAF Headline)
The world’s ablaze, we’re this close to World War III but the US Air Force puts out this article on their...
USAFA’s NCLS 2025: “Examining Warrior Ethos”
By Randy Roughton U.S. Air Force Academy Strategic Communications The upcoming National Character and Leadership...
The Military’s ‘Alpha’ Personalities like Pete Hegseth are What Makes It Effective
By Col. Laurie Buckholt, US Army, ret Throughout my 26 years in the U.S. Army and a year in combat, never once did I ask any...
The Bolduc Brief: The Crisis in Military Leadership – A Call for Reform in the US Armed Forces
By BG Don Bolduc, US Army ret The United States military has long been regarded as one of the most formidable fighting...
West Point Graduates: We Endorse Pete Hegseth for Secretary of Defense
(Posted on American Military News) As graduates of the United States Military Academy at West Point, we are guided by the...
Feds Look To Hire Up To 1,200 New DEI Bureaucrats Before Trump Takes Office
Their research found many of the jobs were in DOD, Air Force, Navy, etc By Luke Rosiak | The Daily Wire The federal...
Interview with MGen Joe Arbuckle on the Flag Officers 4 America letter to support Hegseth for SECDEF
On Securing America TV, host Frank Gaffney interviews retired Army Major General Joe Arbuckle, who led an effort with Flag...
DEI and the Death of Effective Military Command
By retired Army Colonel Cynical Publius ( @CynicalPublius) As Pete Hegseth’s nomination for Secretary of Defense moves...
DEI contractors will be first fired at Pentagon
By Paul Bedard | Washington Examiner The incoming Trump administration already has plans to kill President Joe Biden’s...
House Moves To Block Taxpayer-Funded Trans Surgeries For Military Dependents
By Mary Margaret Olohan | Daily Wire The House of Representatives is moving to intervene in a case centered on the use of...
Biden Admin Dumped Hundreds Of Thousands Into Ensuring Military Parents Affirm Their Child’s Gender Identity
By Katelynn Richardson | The Daily Caller News Foundation The Biden-Harris administration awarded a federal grant to...
Politico Horrified Defense Nominee Hegseth Might Make Military Schools ‘Patriotic’
By Logan Washburn | The Federalist Pete Hegseth, incoming President Donald Trump’s pick for defense secretary, will revamp...
The Military Is Not Inclusive, It Is Exclusive
By Capt. Hung Cao, USN ret, USNA ’96 It is estimated that fewer than 23% of Americans between 17 and 22 are qualified...
A New Spirit: No More Living the Lies of Wokeism
By CDR Breck Henderson, US Navy veteran When I woke up on the morning of November 6, I felt that America was changed. A new...
West Point Professor: “You don’t want certain groups too far overrepresented leading the ranks”
West Point professor Morten Ender was interviewed for this Military.com article, “The Air Force’s Faltering...
The Air Force’s Faltering Effort to Get More Diversity Among Officers May Be Out of Time
Good, time’s up! Get rid of race and gender quotas and focus on merit. By Thomas Novelly | Military.com An Air Force...
More than Half of Senior Army Officers Are Turning Down Command Consideration
This is very troubling. The reasons listed are valid but not listed is the PC command climate coming from DEI/wokeism which...
The Full Spectrum of 5th Gen War
On this episode of Survival Dispatch, special guests General Paul Vallely and Captain Matthew Newgent of the MacArthur...
Letter from an Army Ranger veteran/parent: West Point’s DEI Question; Women Rangers
Letter received by an Army veteran and parent. Some details removed to protect the author’s son. I am a 6-year U.S...
Military may be ground zero for the war on woke
By Casey Harper | The Center Square President-elect Donald Trump’s pick to lead the Department of Defense, though not yet...
Biden DOD Sued After Stonewalling Records Request Into ‘Radical’ General’s Nomination
By Wallace White | The Daily Caller News Foundation A national security watchdog is suing the Department of Defense (DOD)...
Air Force Academy sued over race-conscious admission practices
By Haylee May | Colorado Public Radio News The United States Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs is being sued over its...
Pete Hegseth says he hasn’t heard from West Point since employee ‘error’ denying his acceptance
Crickets. The small, sterile PR statement claiming it was a “administrative” mistake only AFTER Hegseth showed...
Over 120 Retired Flag Officers Endorse Pete Hegseth for Secretary of Defense
Includes 8 retired 4-stars and 2 Medal of Honor recipients. (Press Release, 16 DEC 24) Over 120 retired Generals and...
How to End Wokism in the Military: Trump White House and Congress Should Work Together to Strengthen Our Military
By Elaine Donnelly, President Center for Military Readiness The outgoing 118th Congress has voted for solid steps in favor...
The Daniel Penny Verdict is a Turning Point
By Greg Salsbury, PhD STARRS Board of Advisors Calling Jordan Neely a serial criminal seems like an understatement. With 42...
Women in Combat: Reality wins over DEI, as it must.
By @CynicalPublius on X Retired US Army Colonel I’ve seen some great articles about how Trump’s election is causing a...
Senator Presses Pentagon on Transgender Housing Incident at Missouri Military Barracks: ‘Military readiness is suffering because of your progressive social agenda’
(Press Release) Senator Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) sent a letter to Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin following a whistleblower report...
‘Incompetence’ ‘Bad Judgment’: Banks, Cotton Letters rip West Point
Letters from Congressman Jim Banks (Navy Veteran) and Senator Tom Cotton (Army veteran) to West Point’s...
The “Deep State” at West Point. Say it Ain’t So!
By Col. Bill Prince, USA ret, USMA ’70 MacArthur Society President Comments on West Point’s Involvement in Providing...
Go Big: Fixing Professional Military Education
By John Noonan, USAF veteran Former staffer on defense and armed-service committees in the House and Senate The Wall Street...
DEI Is Unconstitutional
By Max Eden and Josh Hammer | Newsweek Close observers expect that on Day 1, President Donald Trump will reissue his...
Emails, Phone Logs Reveal How Botched Pete Hegseth West Point Story Imploded
More evidenced on the planned hit job on Pete Hegseth by ProPublica and West Point’s complicity: By Reagan Reese | ...
New Defense Spending Bill Puts Slew Of Left-Wing Initiatives On Chopping Block
By Wallace White | Daily Caller News Foundation Congress’ latest defense spending bill unveiled Saturday would deal a...
ProPublica’s botched Pete Hegseth smear proves the need to purge the military of partisanship
By New York Post Editorial Board | New York Post A botched smear of Secretary of Defense-designate Pete Hegseth just...