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Joint Chiefs shuffle: Biden’s top contenders to replace Trump’s military leaders
Donald Trump handpicked the nation’s top military brass while he was in office. Now it’s Joe Biden’s turn. As many as five...
Critical Race Theorists Admit Their Revolution Is Failing
It was a bit cognitively dissonant last month when some of the best-known merchants of critical race theory began whining...
Sixth Circuit Refuses to Vacate Opinion on Air Force Covid Vaccine Requirement
Last fall, a unanimous panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit upheld a district court preliminary...
The military is converting to electric vehicles on bases, but charging them remains a challenge
The Department of Defense has mandated all military branches to convert their fleets of non-combat vehicles from gas powered...
West Point think tank worries about racial biases in drone strikes
The Modern War Institute at West Point published on their website an article by by two Army LT Colonels entitled, “Do...
These Are the Voices That Get Lost In the ‘Woke Military’ Debate
By Kathleen Anderson, USAF ret I served in the Air Force for over 20 years. Anyone who has worn the uniform knows that to...
Army Trainee Had Two Heart Attacks After COVID-19 Vaccine. Now, She’s Likely To Be Discharged
By Micaela Burrow, The Daily Caller News Foundation Karolina Stancik, an Army National Guard enlistee who suffered severe...
The US Military Is Losing the Woke War
By Col. J. Wesley Smith, USA (ret) The United States Armed Forces exist for two primary missions: to prevent war and to...
Complete loss of trust and confidence in the military attributed to the vaccine mandate
By an anonymous military member DOD’s hateful disrespect of inherent human dignity destroyed service member and public trust...
How the nation’s Corps of Marines has lost its way
By Maj. Gen. James Livingston, USMC (ret) and Col. Jay Vargas, USMC (ret) The United States Marine Corps is facing...
The Military Recruitment Crisis Is a Symptom of Cultural Rot
By David McCormick, USMA ’87 and James Cunningham America’s cultural cancer manifests itself in many ways, but no...
Army CGSC teaching officers that only “whites” can be racist
Army Majors currently attending ILE (intermediate level education) at the Command and General Staff College (CGSC) at Fort...
Meet the American who led 77 Minutemen against 700 Redcoats at Battle of Lexington: Captain John Parker
Captain John Parker and 77 armed Americans stood on Lexington Common on what revolutionary Samuel Adams proclaimed “a...
Air Force Academy Touts New Program To Combat Politicization In The Military
By Micaela Burrow, The Daily Caller News Foundation Administrators and a cadet at the Air Force Academy think a new program...
Pentagon Diversity Degrades Meritocracy
By Forrest L. Marion, Ph.D. Retired U.S. Air Force officer and military historian Recently, “Real Time” host Bill Maher came...
Be All You Can Be
New Army ads emphasize winning, but under the Biden junta the possibilities for losing are truly limitless. In the run-up to...
Diversity: Necessary for readiness or the bogeyman?
The key sentence in this article: “The discussion showed a partisan divide so wide that it was as if the two sides...
Rep. DesJarlais Blames ‘Woke-ism And DEI’ For Military Recruiting Shortfalls
Rep. Scott DesJarlais questioned the US Secretary of Defense, Lloyd Austin, and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen...
DoD’s highest-ranking trans official is in charge of Military Readiness
Shawn Skelly left the military in 2008, thinking sHE’d never return; now sHE’s in charge of getting U.S. forces ready for...
Army veteran GOP rep pushes to impeach defense secretary over ‘woke’ military, Afghanistan debacle
A Republican legislator is pushing to impeach Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin over the chaotic Afghanistan withdrawal and for...
White House, Kirby face backlash from military veterans for defense of chaotic Afghan pullout
A retired Marine who executed many civilian rescues from Afghanistan offered a blistering rebuttal to National Security...
Missouri Attorney General Questions Department of Defense on Support of Child Transgenderism
A letter from Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey to Secretary of Defense Gen. Lloyd Austin, which was exclusively...
STARRS Quarterly Newsletter – April 2023
STARRS has issued its quarterly SITREP newsletter providing an update of what STARRS is doing plus in-depth articles on...
Update from the STARRS President
By Dr. Ronald J. Scott, Jr., Colonel, USAF, Retired, USAFA ’73 STARRS President and CEO For a volunteer organization that is...
STARRS Launches New Meritocracy Campaign
By Joe Arbuckle, MG, USA (Ret) STARRS Vice Chairman of the Board STARRS has initiated a “Military Meritocracy Campaign” with...
Activities of STARRS-Affliated Attorneys
By Mike Rose, USAFA ‘69 STARRS Executive Vice President, General Counsel STARRS affiliated attorneys have engaged in...
Prominent DEI Proponent and Black Scholar Gives Colvin Lecture at USAFA’s 2023 National Character and Leadership Symposium
By Tracey Meck, Colonel, USAF (Ret) USAFA ’87 STARRS Newsletter Editor and Chief Dr. Eddie Glaude Jr. was the Colvin keynote...
The Woke Military
By Tracey Meck, Colonel, USAF (Ret), USAFA ’87 Newsletter Editor and Chief Recently the senior enlisted leaders from each...
DoD Vaccine Policy Update
By Joe Arbuckle, MG, USA (Ret) STARRS Vice Chairman of the Board After NDAA Win, STARRS Continues the Fight to Restore Those...
Status of Vaccine Refusers & DoD/Service Policies
By Tracey Meck, Colonel, USAF (Ret) USAFA ’87 Newsletter Editor and Chief The FY 23 NDAA rescinded the COVID-19 vaccine...
Is There Evidence of Adverse Vaccine Impacts on Service Members?
By Tracey Meck, Colonel, USAF (Ret) USAFA ’87 Newsletter Editor and Chief The VAERS database shows more vaccine injuries in...
What You Should Know If You Have Taken the Vaccine
By Dr Scott Sturman, MD, USAFA ‘72 STARRS Board of Advisors The Pfizer mRNA vaccine trial lasted 28 days and was not...
DOD’s 1st Pandemic Preparedness Plan In 2007 Required NO Mandated Masks Or Vaccinations
By Jim Zietlow, Colonel USAF (retired) US Air Force Academy Class of 1987 Former lead military planner for the 2007 DOD...
Military Readiness or Military Wokeness?
STARRS Board of Advisors member Elaine Donnelly was interviewed on Crosstalk to discuss military readiness versus military...
GOP Will Push Forward with Plans to Root Out ‘Woke’ Military Agenda
House Republicans expect to press forward with legislation targeting Pentagon policies they view as “woke”...
Politicizing the Marines
Senator Dan Sullivan questioned SECDEF Lloyd Austin and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen. Mark Milley, at a Senate...
This woke Pentagon video delivers a dangerous message
By Rod Dorilas, Navy veteran When a Navy training video on the use of preferred pronouns emerged last year, many people...
Our military is in a dangerous decline and this is the reason why
By Rep. Michael Waltz, US National Guard Col. Dr. Kevin Roberts, President, Heritage Foundation The U.S. Armed Forces have...
Veterans to Congress: Wokeness is Hurting Readiness
By Dave Patterson, retired U.S. Air Force Pilot with over 180 combat missions in Vietnam and a former Principal Deputy Under...