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Biden Pentagon’s Efforts To Crack Down On ‘Extremism’ May Have Harmed Military, DOD Study Finds
By Micaela Burrow, The Daily Caller News Foundation The Department of Defense’s (DOD) efforts to crack down on extremist...
Air Force Academy Privately Fretted The End Of Race-Based Admissions Would Hamstring ‘Diversity’ Goals
By Micaela Burrow, The Daily Caller News Foundation The Air Force Academy’s top official worried the Supreme Court’s...
Here’s What They’re Teaching In The Naval Academy’s Gender And Sexuality Class
How utterly painful for midshipmen to have to suffer through a course like this instead of focusing on becoming a war...
No Institution is Safe: DEI Thought Control in the Military
By Scott Sturman, USAFA ’72 Phillip J. Keuhlen, CDR, USN (Ret), USNA ’71 There is a misunderstanding that...
Navy Whistleblower Investigated for Questioning COVID-19 Vaccine
Mara Macie — whose husband is being investigated by the Navy for questioning the COVID-19 vaccine’s effect on troop health —...
Meet the American who rowed Washington across the Delaware on Christmas, sailor-soldier John Glover
General John Glover delivered a priceless gift to the nation. He saved the cause of American independence on Christmas Day...
The US military grapples with a recruiting crisis. One Army vet says he knows why
The U.S. military missed its recruiting goals in 2023 by 41,000 and faces a recruiting crisis heading into the new year...
Air Force Academy moves to monitor social media for potential cadet misconduct
The U.S. Air Force Academy aims to hire a contractor that can closely monitor popular social media platforms for posts and...
Judge Reverses Earlier Decision and Allows Removal of Reconciliation Monument at Arlington Cemetery
A federal judge on Tuesday allowed the Arlington National Cemetery to remove a century-old Confederate memorial (the...
Only 3% of Soldiers Who Refused COVID Vaccine Rejoin Army
More and more Army soldiers are reenlisting after being discharged for refusing the COVID-19 vaccine, according to...
Biden Military Nominee Celebrated NATO’s ‘Demand’ For ‘Diversity’ And ‘Inclusion’
A high-ranking Marine Corps Reserve official nominated by President Joe Biden previously celebrated a NATO agency’s embrace...
West Point should end affirmative action in admissions, group tells US judge
The group behind the successful U.S. Supreme Court challenge to race-conscious college admissions policies urged a federal...
Just one promotion remains blocked due to officer’s views on diversity
The Senate confirmed large batches of Defense Department nominees this month, ending a 10-month blockade on military...
Conservatives Say ‘So-Called Wins’ In New Defense Bill Won’t Check Pentagon’s Diversity Agenda
By Micaela Burrow, The Daily Caller News Foundation Congress’ defense bill is a failure in the view of conservatives who...
The DEI industrial complex is going to destroy any institution where it’s allowed to operate
Fox News host Laura Ingraham gives her take on the battle over DEI policy on “The Ingraham Angle.” LAURA...
What STARRS Accomplished in 2023 Because of You
As we approach the end of the year by celebrating Christmas and the holiday season and the hope and joy this holiday...
The Military Is Collapsing Under The Weight Of Its Own Wokeness
By Matt Walsh | The Daily Wire In October 2020, Major General Ed Thomas — who at the time was the commander of the Air...
GOP ripped for caving on 800+ House provisions in NDAA
STARRS Board of Advisor Elaine Donnelly, the President of Center for Military Readiness is interviewed in this article: By...
Military experts blame Biden’s DEI push as US military enters 2024 with smallest fighting force in 80 years
Military experts sounded the alarm about the Biden administration’s “woke” policies within the Department...
Memo to Academies, Military: Critical Race Theory is NOT in favor by most Americans
Stop the bizarre obsession with race and focus back on merit and accomplishments. From the latest Harvard-Harris poll (click...
Senator Blocks Air Force Colonel’s Military Promotion Over ‘Divisive DEI Policies’
“We are at an endemic point and if we do not do something to turn the tide soon, I feel the military could be lost forever...
US Army faces ‘TikTok mutiny’ as Woke Gen Z recruits whine while on bases in uniform
What you get with a woke military on Chinese-owned TikTok: The US Army is facing a TikTok mutiny as Gen Z recruits are...
Who Would Destroy the Reconciliation Monument at This Time of Year?
By Scott Powell, The Patriot Post It is a sad chapter in American history when the secretary of defense, Lloyd Austin, takes...
Military’s Quest for Marxist DEI Imperils Nation
By Brig. General Blaine Holt, US Air Force ret Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI), a mainstay of Marxist ideology has...
Hearing: Recruiting Shortfalls and Growing Mistrust: Perceptions of the US Military
A hearing on Capitol Hill was held on 13 December 2023 to provide members with an understanding of the perceptions of the...
CDR Salamander’s Take on the NDAA
The Commander’s analysis is worth reading, especially Part III to understand the good news and the bad news and what...
Elon Musk: “DEI must DIE.”
Elon Musk recently stated on X: “DEI must DIE. The point was to end discrimination, not replace it with different...
US Judge Won’t Block US Naval Academy’s Race-Conscious Admissions Policy
A federal judge on Thursday rejected a request by the group that successfully challenged race-conscious college admissions...
Ideology, not lack of funds, is behind our military’s recruiting crisis
By Eddie Gallagher, US Navy SEAL veteran and Dena Cruden America’s military is in crisis, and it’s not one caused by the...
NDAA Does Not Put America’s Security First
By Lt. General Keith Kellogg, US Army ret Lieutenant General (Retired) Keith Kellogg, Co-Chair of the Center for American...
NDAA headed to Biden’s desk sans reinstatement language for vax refusers
By J.M. Phelps Before leaving town for the year, the U.S. House of Representatives on Thursday passed the National Defense...
House passes the annual Defense authorization bill
“With this NDAA conference report, you almost feel like a parent who’s sent their child off to summer camp and they come...
RAND REPORT: What Americans Think About Veterans and Military Service
(RAND) Fiscal year 2022 was one of the worst U.S. military recruitment years on record, with all services apart from the...
Black women’s group defends race-based admissions at military academies
An advocacy organization for Black women in the military has voiced support for service academies’ affirmative action...
Poll: Vast Majority of Veterans Think the Military is Too ‘Woke’
According to a new nationwide poll from the American Principles Project (APP), nearly three-quarters of veterans think the...
Brig. Gen. Chris Walker Talk at STARRS Town Hall with Q&A
Recently retired US Air Force Brigadier General Christopher Walker was the guest speaker at a December 2023 STARRS Town Hall...
Top Army Official Can’t Say What’s Been Done To Convince Americans The Military Isn’t ‘Politicized’
“I don’t know what that is.” So clueless, living in a bubble not even being aware of that so many service...
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion is a Moral Sickness Infecting Our Military
By Patrick “Kit” Bobko, USAFA ’91, USAF veteran The political vigilantism taking place under the banner of...
Defense Bill Ditches Ban On Abortion Travel And Transgender Treatments
By Micaela Burrow, The Daily Caller News Foundation A compromise version of the final defense bill got rid of proposals in...