By Dr. Meaghan Mobbs West Point 2008 graduate and former US Army officer In a rapidly changing world, our national security...
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What about the other 80 percent?
By Janine Guidry, TRMLX.com The military is looking at another year of missed goals when it comes to recruitment, and they...
Too woke to wage war
By Jim Nelles, former Naval officer The world is seeing tensions rise between major global powers, reaching levels not seen...
Why we need to promote innovative military leaders
By James Rogan, former U.S. foreign service officer The United States must have general officers and admirals who are...
STARRS Open Letter to Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman
The bottom line up front:-our experience over the last 3 years tells us that the great majority of Americans we have...
House Committee Advances Amendment Restoring Meritocracy To Military Personnel Decisions
Republicans on the House Armed Services Committee added an amendment to a 2024 defense spending package on Wednesday that...
New commandant of cadets at the Air Force Academy
(USAFA press release) As he assumed command of the Cadet Wing, Brig. Gen. Gavin Marks described returning to the U.S. Air...
Defense Secretary Austin Needs To Obey Orders And End The Military Vaccine Mandate
By M. Oakland, attorney On Aug. 14, 2021, Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin, after months of build-up, mandated that all...
Why Is Ridiculous Woke Ideology Being Accepted By America’s Military?
According to the Atlantic, in “2018 three scholars—James Lindsay, Helen Pluckrose, and Peter Boghossian—wrote 20 fake papers...
Inside the DEI Reading Room at the Air Force Academy
In the Soviet Army, each company had “political enlightenment dayrooms” (ie indoctrination rooms) which...
Military leadership is trying to hide its efforts to force leftist ideology on the ranks
By Col. Ron Scott, PhD, USAF ret, USAFA ’73 STARRS President Since the summer of 2020, members of Stand Together...
Where are the generals and admirals willing to defend the military from wokeness?
By Dr. Scott Sturman, MD US Air Force Academy ’72 If the United States military had to undergo a comprehensive, annual...
Conservatives Wonder Who Navy Is Trying to Recruit With Petty Officer Drag Queen ’Stunt’
It was a rough summer for drag queens, with uproars over public library story hours and bruising boycotts against Jack...
Pentagon Paying the Price For Going ‘Woke’
The directive came from the top: A memo from the U.S. secretary of defense ordering Pentagon leaders and the commanders of...
The US needs warriors, not ‘woke’ commissars
By James Rogan, former US Foreign Service Officer Members of the military are a brotherhood, bands of brothers and sisters...
The destruction of the military by euphemisms
By Dr. Scott Sturman, MD, US Air Force Academy ’72 Marxists are masters of patience, disguise, and the use of...
Leftist obsession with diversity has conquered the US military
By Forrest Marion, PhD, retired USAF officer and military historian As 1919 began, the victors of World War I gathered in...
Needless woke trainings degrade and demoralize the Navy
By Michael Rubin, former Pentagon official Deployments are difficult for any military serviceman, but living on a ship for...
Republicans take aim at Biden Pentagon policies on diversity, climate, vaccines
Pentagon personnel policies took center stage early on Wednesday in the House Armed Services Committee’s deliberations over...
There is no justification for the Navy’s DEI push
By Capt. Brent Ramsey, USN ret The Constitution is the supreme law of the land. The oath that I took upon commissioning was...
Protections for Troops Booted over COVID Vaccine Mandate Added to House Defense Bill
House Republicans moved Wednesday to protect former service members who were discharged over the military’s now...
Woke ideology is at odds with the oath military service members swear
By John Cauthen, USNA ’02, former Naval officer Every commissioned officer and enlisted member of the armed forces swears an...
What my first platoon sergeant taught me about military service
By Tony Lentini, USMA ’71, Army Captain Founding member of the MacArthur Society of West Point Graduates There are three...
Is the US military trying to lose wars?
By John Hughes, MD, USMA ’96, Veteran of OIF/OEF More than 10 years ago, military analysts declared the war in Afghanistan...
Defense Department’s DEI strategic plan damages military cohesion
By Garret Exner, former USMC Officer U.S. Marine Corps recruit training, often referred to as “boot camp,” turns civilians...
The Left’s civic religion is a threat to national security
By Senator Marco Rubio This year’s Pride month reveals more clearly than ever how “wokeness ” undermines...
Inside the ‘woke’ takeover of the US Air Force Academy
By Evan Smith, US Air Force Academy cadet [The author’s name has been changed to a pseudonym to protect the...
The Air Force has abandoned its mission in pursuit of radical social justice
By Mike Uecker, US Air Force Academy grad, USAF officer As a graduate of the U.S. Air Force Academy and a veteran with more...
There’s no such thing as social justice in a foxhole
By Peter Laffin The military can and should only be judged by its ability to carry out its primary function, which is to...
In the military, going woke can be deadly
By Mark Judge It’s amazing, or maybe not, that the media does not get the correlation. There is currently a debate about...
Biden administration is using the military to push a radical abortion agenda
By Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks (24-year Army veteran) and Marilyn Musgrave Democrats once supported the “safe, legal, and...
To push woke ideology, Biden illegally gutted military academy oversight boards
By Michael Rose, USAFA ’69 and STARRS General Counsel and Richard Epstein The military academies present positive...
Survey reveals why surface warfare officers want to leave the fleet
Let’s cut to the chase about lack of merit: “About 83 percent of surveyed junior officers “do not believe that...
Rep. Wesley Hunt: Woke Initiatives Have No Place In Our Military
Texas Republican Congressman Wesley Hunt (USMA ’04) joins Fox Across America With Jimmy Failla to share his thoughts...
Wokeness is antithetical to military service
By Tom Klocek, USNA ’69 Member of the Calvert Group “Wokeness” is all about oneself. It is political correctness on...
Lowered standards and disregarded data have weakened the US military
By Dr. Meaghan Mobbs West Point 2008 graduate and former US Army officer Member, VMI Board of Visitors The primary role of...
The military isn’t the place for woke social experiments
By Bill Smith Parent of a US Air Force Academy Cadet [This author’s name has been changed to a pseudonym to protect...
How DEI is destroying trust and unity within the ranks
By Lauren Evans U.S. Air Force Academy cadet [This author’s name has been changed to a pseudonym to protect the...
The Army must choose: Diversity or meritocracy?
By Forrest L. Marion, Ph.D. Retired U.S. Air Force officer and military historian In March 2023, amid an ongoing recruiting...
How DEI infiltrated the military
By Dr Scott Sturman, MD, USAFA ‘72 STARRS Board of Advisors How is it possible that in a matter of a few years, the...