(Pentagon) Today Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth ordered a department-wide review of existing standards set by U.S...
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‘Smartest Guy In The Room’: Meet The Man Trump Just Tapped To Head America’s Highest Military Office
By Wallace White | The Daily Caller News Foundation President Donald Trump’s new nominee for the highest military officer...
USAFA Cadets test warfighter readiness in spring CULEX
(USAFA) U.S. Air Force Academy cadets took on the rigorous Spring 2025 Culminating Exercise (CULEX), an essential training...
A Premature Death Sentence for DEI at the U.S. Naval Academy?
By CDR Phillip J. Keuhlen, USN ret, USNA ’71 During a tour of duty at the U.S. Naval Academy (USNA) as a Company Officer in...
President names allies to Naval Academy Board of Visitors
By Ali Bianco | Politico President Donald Trump is nominating his close allies to serve on the board of visitors for the U.S...
West Point Must Come Clean
By Tony Lentini, USMA ’71 On Spring Break in 2022, five West Point cadets overdosed on cocaine laced with fentanyl...
From Flying F-4s to Fighting DEI: A Veteran’s Journey to Restore Military Values
STARRS & Stripes podcast host Al Palmer and guest Ron Olds, two veteran F-4 Phantom pilots during the Vietnam War...
Pentagon Culls Social Science Research, Prioritizes Fiscal Responsibility and Technologies for Future Battlefield
(Pentagon/DOD News) The Office of the Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering (OUSD(R&E)) is scrapping its...
DoD eliminates leftism as military recruitment bounce signals surge in Gen Z patriotism
By Emily Sturge | Campus Reform Senior at University of Florida Young people are experiencing a revival in American values...
Unity Slate wins seats on USAFA AOG Board of Directors
STARRS recommended five Unity Slate candidates to run for the Board of Directors of the Air Force Academy’s...
SECDEF Hegseth: “The warfighters are back in charge.”
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth was recently interview by Laura Ingraham during their visit to GITMO and as part of that...
Update on DEI and Vax Remedy Issues in the Military
STARRS Vice Chairman Maj Gen Joe Arbuckle, USA ret, was interviewed about DEI and the vax remedy issue in the military by...
Ever wonder why there are no statues of a post-WW2 West Point General?
By John Hughes, MD, USMA ’96 Several factors go into demand for immortalization of a West Point graduate in the form...
Military Watchdog Sues Air Force For Records Of Experiment Aimed To Boost Women, Minority Graduation Rates
By Wallace White | Daily Caller News Foundation A military watchdog sued the Air Force Monday seeking records pertaining...
Army TRADOC using AI to purge DEI from training materials
First there was this from a General at TRADOC in 2020: “Diversity and inclusion must be infused into Army training and...
Response to Five Former SECDEFs “Open Letter” Criticizing Trump
By Larry Purdy, USNA ’68 Joining Rhode Island Democratic Senator Jack Reed’s partisan handwringing over President...
Military Service JAGs Fired by Secretary Hegseth For a Reason
STARRS Board of Advisor member Col. Rob Maness, USAF ret, discussed the recent firings of JAGS with Commander Rob Green...
President Says Military Recruiting Up, So Too Will be American Shipbuilding, ‘Golden Dome’
(Pentagon/DOD News) During his first address to a joint session of Congress, March 4, 2025, President Donald J. Trump said...
Of “Independence” and “Guardrails”: The Military Left’s Lamentable Response to SecDef’s Firing of Service TJAGS
By Judge Bruce Tucker Smith Retired Department of Homeland Security ALJ and retired USAF Judge Advocate On February 24...
Lethality in Education: Athenian Scholarship, Roman Virtus, Maccabean Grit, & Muscular Christianity
By Lt. Col. Chuck Duray, PhD, USA ret, USMA ’92 STARRS Volunteer For many years, the U.S. military possessed...
Air Force Sees Historic Numbers of Airmen Waiting to Go to Boot Camp in 2025
Just saying . . . in October 2024, candidate Donald Trump said he would name Space Force veteran Matt Lohmeier, who said he...
The Animus of Ignorance: Contextualizing Hatred from “Brothers-In-Arms”
By Grant Smith, Army veteran A fellow Army field grade officer, LTC Dan Wagner, recently took to social media to express his...
DOD IG: Termination of the Oversight Projects Related to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
(DOD IG) On January 20, 2025, the President issued Executive Orders, “Ending Radical and Wasteful Government Diversity...
Why identity politics has no place in national defense
By Michelle Thibeau, USMA 2014 grad The Defense Department’s decision to eliminate identity-based observances such as Pride...
Air Force aims to instill Warrior Ethos, increase lethality
(AF/DOD News) The Air Force is making progress toward Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth’s priorities, which will ultimately...
DAF: No more non-essential travel to things like DEI events at Pentagon
We recall this story from June 2023: Air Force uses taxpayer money for personnel to travel to pride events in DC where a...
DAF releases additional guidance for Executive Order 14183, Prioritizing Military Excellence and Readiness
(Dept of the Air Force) The Department of Defense released the memorandum Additional Guidance for Executive Order 14183...
DOGE initial findings on Defense Department DEI spending could save $80M, agency says
By Louis Casiano | Fox News The Department of Defense could save up to $80 million in wasteful spending by cutting loose a...
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth Renames Fort Moore to Fort Benning
(Pentagon) Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth signed a memorandum renaming Fort Moore in Georgia to Fort Benning. The new...
Who Really Politicized the Pentagon?
By Victor Davis Hanson | American Greatness Five former Secretaries of Defense—William Perry, Leon Panetta, Chuck Hagel...
VMI won’t extend superintendent’s contract, following increase in DEI efforts
Here is AP’s actual headline which focuses on his race thus continuing the divisive CRT/DEI agenda pitting people...
STARRS Presentation: The American Creed Threatened by Radical Indoctrination
UPCOMING SCHEDULE: • 12 AUG 2025: STARRS “American Creed Threatened by Radical Indoctrination” presentation, Teller Rifles...
“He was found guilty.”
What do you make of this? It’s rather disturbing. Came across this TikTok channel during a search. It’s by an...
DOD: Gender Dysphoria Incompatible With Military, Service Members Must Serve in Accordance With Sex
(Pentagon) Service members diagnosed with gender dysphoria will soon be processed for separation by their respective...
President Trump Was Right to Fire C.Q. Brown
By Will Thibeau, US Army Ranger veteran In removing General Charles Q. Brown, Jr. as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff...
CJCS, CNO Fired over DEI, Is the Marine Commandant Next?
By Col. Gary Anderson, USMC ret February 21st was a bad day for DEI at the Pentagon. The top military commander (CJCS) and...
Military merit: Hegseth doubles down
By Mike McDaniel, USAF Veteran I remember the first day of basic training in the USAF in the early 70s. We were shuffled...
Whistleblower: There’s a Trans Cult Inside the NSA
By Christopher Rufo | City Journal This week, City Journal broke the story of the National Security Agency’s secret sex...
Pentagon spent millions injecting DEI into science and medicine
By Robert Schmad | Washington Examiner The Department of Defense spends millions of dollars every year on...
Air Force Academy Investigating Nearly 100 Cadets for Cheating, Honor Code Violations
By Thomas Novelly | Military.com Nearly 100 cadets at the Air Force Academy in Colorado are being investigated after...