By COL Kurt Schlichter, US Army, ret Right now, many of us vets are looking back on our years of service and wondering what...
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Air Force says ‘inclusive and equitable culture’ part of strategy to ‘fly, fight and win’ against China
Military leaders tasked with supporting Air Force and Space Force installations across the country released a strategic plan...
The Military Should Reject DEI and CRT
By MG Patrick H. Brady, US Army (ret) and Congressman and Col. Michael Waltz, US Army With recruitment rates to the U.S...
Livestream Replay of Event: The Assault on Our Children and Military
STARRS President Ron Scott was a member of a panel during a special event in Colorado, The Assault on our Children and Armed...
Americans Pull Back From Values That Once Defined U.S. Poll Finds
Patriotism, religious faith, having children and other priorities that helped define the national character for generations...
Woke Religion: A Taxonomy
Excellent chart displaying the beliefs and structure of the Marxist Woke ideology that shows it really is a religion...
DEI Training’s Unintended Consequences
Excellent new video from John Stossel shows the harm of DEI training. Key quote from Professor Erec Smith, a former...
Army pulls ‘Be All You Can Be’ ads after on-screen narrator arrested
The Army paused its new multi-million dollar advertising campaign Sunday after its featured actor was arrested the day...
Warriors Don’t Want to Fight for a Woke, Anti-American Military
By JB Shurk “Why are recruitment numbers in the toilet? Because hardworking, athletic, intelligent warriors who...
DOD officials: diversity in the military is more important than commonality
At a House Armed Services Committee hearing last week, Rep. Mark Alford (R-MO) asked the question to Undersecretary of...
Rep. Jim Banks: Biden Pentagon Focusing on DEI Instead of Protecting America
House Armed Services Subcommittee for Military Personnel Chair Jim Banks (R-IN) in a recent exclusive interview with...
The Military Depends on Virtues That Are Fading
The U.S. military is facing a recruitment crisis. It is so severe that in September, Senator Thom Thillis referred to an...
The cost to rename 9 Confederacy-honoring Army bases has doubled
The cost of renaming the nine Army bases that honored the Confederacy has nearly doubled, an Army official told lawmakers...
Records Show Air Force Academy Focus on Anti-American Critical Race Theory Training of Cadets
Judicial Watch announced today it received 167 pages of records from the U.S. Department of Defense which show the U.S. Air...
Judicial Watch Sues Department of Defense on Behalf of STARRS
STARRS filed Freedom of Information Act Requests related to claims of systemic racism at the U.S. Air Force Academy. One of...
The DOD Plays Hardball with Covid Vaccinations
By Scott Sturman, MD, USAFA ’72 STARRS Board of Advisors [STARRS Lt Gen Rod Bishop USA (ret) and MG Joe Arbuckle USA (ret)...
Washington’s Dangerous Unseriousness
Forrest L. Marion, Ph.D. Retired U.S. Air Force officer and military historian “In the U.S. military today, one...
Biden Defense Officials Defend Diversity, Equity, Inclusion in the Military
Biden Pentagon officials in charge of military personnel policy defended pushing Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) in...
4 Takeaways as Lawmakers Probe Pentagon’s Diversity, Equity, Inclusion Efforts
President Joe Biden has extensively promoted diversity, equity, and inclusion as the focus of government agencies, including...
Pentagon Pulls Radical Anti-White DEI Official From Key Post
A radical activist who has made anti-white comments is no longer in charge of “diversity” at the schools children of...
Congresswoman Announces Removal of Woke Officer from Military Children’s Schools
(Press Release) Congresswoman Elise Stefanik announced that, following her advocacy, DoDEA Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion...
Military Had “Concerning” Rise In Myocarditis Cases In 2021
Recently released data has revealed that the U.S. military saw a spike in the rate of myocarditis diagnoses in 2021...
Waltz, Banks Press West Point on Preferred Pronoun Role Play Guide
(Press Release) House Armed Services Military Readiness Subcommittee Chairman Mike Waltz (FL-6) and Military Personnel...
Senator Schmitt Questions Biden Military Officials on Military Recruitment, DEI Initiatives
(Press Release) Senator Schmitt questioned Biden military officials from the Army, Navy, and Air Force about lagging...
STARRS: ‘What People are Saying’ about Radicalism in the Military
STARRS (Stand Together Against Racism and Radicalism in the Services) has collected perspectives on readiness issues from...
‘That’s Just Not True’: Senator Slams Military Officials For Blaming ‘Discrimination’ For Recruiting Problems
Sen. Roger Wicker denied at a hearing Wednesday that discrimination is a problem in the military after service leaders...
Pentagon Officials Deny They Have ‘Diversity’ Targets, But Their Own Documents Tell A Different Story
Military officials told lawmakers the services do not entertain diversity quotas of any kind on Wednesday, but the...
Senator unloads on Pentagon’s ‘obsession’ with equity agenda: ‘Totem pole of grievances’
Sen. Eric Schmitt on Wednesday tore into Pentagon leaders for defending an agenda that stresses issues like diversity and...
West Point’s pronoun ‘play acting’ training exercise and CRT lecture
Congressmen Michael Waltz of Florida and Jim Banks of Indiana demanded answers from West Point regarding the school’s role...
Pentagon doctors claim 7-year-olds can make decisions to be injected with hormones, puberty suppressants
Health providers at U.S. military bases, some of whom are involved in treating military-connected minors, blasted the idea...
Sen. Schmitt Demands Answers from SECDEF on DOD’s Prioritization of DEI over Military Preparedness
(Press Release) Senator Eric Schmitt sent a letter to Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin demanding answers on the Department...
Senator says Navy mission was abandoned to ‘train everybody on transgender’
Florida Republican Sen. Rick Scott criticized the U.S. military on March 17 as insufficiently “lethal,” claiming...
U.S. Rep Greg Steube Secures U.S. Coast Guard Guarantee to Readmit Wrongfully Disenrolled, Unvaccinated Cadets
(Press Release) U.S. Representative Greg Steube (R-Fla.) announced he secured guarantee from the U.S. Coast Guard Academy to...
Evidence that the DEI/CRT agenda in the military DOES hurt recruiting and retention
From January 2023 to December 2024, STARRS collected evidence of a large elephant in the room regarding the recruiting...
Our military is not ready to fight the PRC
By Brent Ramsey, USN Captain (ret) STARRS Member We are at war but most Americans are blissfully unaware. Folks are busy...
Retired Green Beret’s testimony to Congress on Afghanistan pull-out
The House Foreign Affairs Committee received testimony from retired Lt. Col. David Scott Mann, a Green Beret and founder of...
Mom Sues Military Officials Who Allegedly Retaliated Against Her Complaints Of School ‘Polysexual’ Posters
A New Jersey mom is suing military officials who deemed her social media post voicing concern over an elementary school’s...
FGA Sounds the Alarm on Permanent ‘Woke Army’ Being Assembled Inside the Federal Government
(Press Release) President Biden’s new ‘Equity Teams’ will embed gender ideology, environmental justice, radical racial...
Army’s Woke Drive Alienates Potential Recruits
By Michael Reagan (son of President Reagan) The U.S. Army has learned that if you torture data long enough it will confess...
Navy secretary cited climate change as top priority as Biden proposes shrinking the fleet
Secretary of the Navy Carlos Del Toro said he sees fighting climate change as a top priority for the Navy as the Biden...