(Goldwater Institute) Joining forces with renowned legal scholar Richard A. Epstein, the Goldwater Institute filed a...
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The Corrupting Influence of DEI on Military Education
By CDR J.A. Cauthen, USN ret, USNA ’02 By now, the diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) industry’s capture of...
Is the Naval Academy Going Rogue?
Choosing candidates based on their skin color or gender over the most qualified? From the channel “Service Academy and...
Interview with Calvert Task Group
CDM Host L Todd Wood speaks to Tom Burbage and Bruce Davey of Calvert Task Group on efforts to save the Naval Academy from...
DEI, Critical Race Theory Pervades Military Trainings: Report
By Megan Rosevear | The College Fix Diversity, equity and inclusion and critical race theory topics now pervade U.S. Armed...
Calvert Task Group Announces the Upcoming Publication of ‘Don’t Give Up the Ship’
The fate of our country is in the hands of the American people. The time to act is now. ‘Don’t Give Up the Ship’ will be...
The Military Academies and a Biden Power Grab
By Richard A. Epstein | Wall Street Journal A lame-duck President Trump appointed Heidi Stirrup to a three-year term on...
Sparks Fly As Republicans & Dems Clash Over Affirmative Action Ban For U.S. Military Academy Admissions
At last week’s House Armed Services Committee hearing mark up for the NDAA, lawmakers debated an amendment barring...
Rep. Banks Passes Amendment to End Racial Discrimination at Military Academies
(Press Release) Today, Chairman of the House Armed Services Military Personnel Subcommittee Jim Banks passed an amendment to...
Naval Academy’s Diversity “Search Advocate” Program
by CDR Salamander | Substack There was once a time when the US military was a positive, forward moving force in bringing...
Statement to DACODAI – Larry Purdy
Statement to DACODAI by Larry Purdy, USNA ’68 To: General Lester L. Lyles (USAF, Ret.), Chairman Defense Advisory...
Statement to DACODAI – Bob Neumann
Statement to DACODAI by By former Navy Lt Commander Bob Neumann, USNA ’69 Equity A record 41,000 recruits short in...
Marxist CRT at the US Naval Academy
On 18 & 19 April 2024, the U.S. Naval Academy Stockdale Center for Ethical Leadership held the 23rd annual McCain...
Our Service Academies Must Discard Race-Based Admissions
By Lawrence Purdy, USNA ’68 Eliminating racial discrimination means eliminating all of it… [T]he Equal Protection Clause …...
Around the Naval Academy
The U.S. Naval Academy hosted all the Supes at the annual Conference of Service Academy Superintendents (COSAS) with tours...
30-Year Naval Academy Teacher Details Depth Of DEI Rot In America’s Military Institutions
By Shawn Fleetwood | The Federalist It’s no secret the Biden administration has “reimagined” the U.S. military into a left...
Leadership Standards and Accountability: The United States Naval Academy
This letter by a 1970 Naval Academy graduate, who was in the nuclear power industry, was written in November 2021 and...
Answers to Questions re Service Academy Admissions and a Change to the Mission Statement
By Scott McQuarrie, USMA ’72 President, Veterans for Fairness and Merit A USNA grad emailed some perceptive questions...
Latest wave of wokeness to hit West Point reveals one simple solution
Cut to the chase re Doug MacKinnon’s unusual solution: instead of just complaining about wokeness in the service...
Many top colleges, including service academies, ‘training a cadre of political commissars’ through DEI certificate programs
Many American colleges and universities are offering diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) certificates that are not only a...
Meeting of the U.S. Naval Academy Board of Visitors
Calling all our Navy readers to attend the morning meeting of the Naval Academy Board of Visitors on March 19, 2024 from 9...
Military Service Academy Affinity/Culture Clubs
No, not THAT Culture Club, but close. (Only people from the 1980s will get this) A look at identity-based clubs at the...
Expand Fair Admissions to the Military Academies
By J.A. Cauthen, retired Naval officer, USNA ’02 In June 2023, Students for Fair Admissions, Inc. (SFFA) prevailed in...
Military Leaders Do What Makes Them Look Good
Another excerpt from US Naval Academy professor Bruce Fleming’s new book, Saving Our Service Academies: My Battle...
US Military Archbishop Leads Pro-Life Cadets in March for Life
Archbishop Timothy Broglio for the Military Services led a group of pro-life cadets and midshipmen in the March for Life...
Naval professor’s new book flags leftist ideology infiltrating military
A U.S. Naval Academy professor who has been disciplined by the institution for speaking out against the school’s practices...
DEI Destroys Excellence, Military Cohesion at the Naval Academy
By Bruce Fleming, USNA Instructor since 1987 This is an excerpt from Bruce Fleming’s new book, Saving Our Service...
Are the Military Services Prepared for Race-Neutral Admissions? Part II
By Major Geoffrey Irving, U.S. Marine Corps Reserve . . . . First, the Supreme Court required that any use of racial...
US Military Academies Focus on Oaths and Loyalty to Constitution as Political Divisions Intensify
For 75 minutes, Maj. Joe Amoroso quizzed his students in SS202, American Politics, about civilian leadership of the...
Navy Completes Work on Naming Commission Recommendations
(US Navy Press Release) “When Secretary Austin directed us to implement the recommendations of the Naming Commission, he...
The Dangers of DEI Indoctrination Happening at the US Service Academies
By Col. Rob Maness, USAF ret STARRS Board of Advisors Considering Harvard President Claudine Gay’s resignation, and her...
NEW BOOK: Saving Our Service Academies
Saving Our Service Academies: My Battle with, and for, the US Naval Academy to Make Thinking Officers, By Bruce Fleming From...
The Navy and Politics: Questions That Deserve Answers
By Capt. Brent Ramsey, US Navy ret STARRS Board of Advisors Recently there has been an increase in naval threats around the...
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...
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...
Senators introduce bill to ban racial discrimination in college admissions
The service academies are put on alert: (Press Release) Senator JD Vance (R-OH) and Congressman Jim Banks (R-IN-03) have...
Diversity, Equity And Inclusion or Shipmate…You Can’t Have Both!
By Capt. Brent Ramsey, USN ret STARRS Board of Advisors According to widely accepted research including that of the military...
Pentagon Issues Policy Allowing Cadets, Midshipmen Who Have Kids to Stay at Service Academies
This just seems really odd. A child needs their mother and father. Can’t people wait until after they graduate and...
Victor Davis Hanson discusses DEI at Military Academies
On the Victor Davis Hanson Show, he and the cohost discuss the article, Diversity, Equity, And Inclusion Reign Supreme At...
Military Service Academies Over the Years
Videos looking back at the US military service academies over the years. What are your memories? The Making Of A West...
The Supreme Court won’t allow racial preferences at service academies, either
By Michael Ormsbee, professor of constitutional law topics and space law at the U.S. Air Force Academy The Supreme Court...
The Rise of the Naval Academy Zampolit Cadre
By Commander Salamander This is one of those DivThu that could be a, in a word, tome. As such, I am only going to pull a...
Amid War, Naval Academy Seeks Another Gender and Sexuality Professor
. . . According to the Academy’s website, the school’s mission is to “develop Midshipmen morally, mentally and physically...
The Consequences of the CRT/DEI Agenda
Our Service Academies teach and promote the Critical Race Theory/Diversity Equity and Inclusion agenda, offer minors in...
Affirmative Action Must End at Military-Service Academies
By Paul J. Larkin Capt. Charles “Cully” Stimson, US Navy ret LtGen Thomas Spoehr, US Army ret In a recent Washington Post op...
Why Have Military Academies?
By Tony Lentini, USMA ’71 Established in 1802 under President Thomas Jefferson, West Point is our nation’s oldest armed...
US Naval Academy Is Sued Over Use of Race in Admissions
By Hans von Spakovsky Heritage Foundation A couple of weeks ago, Students for Fair Admissions sued the U.S. Military Academy...
Students For Fair Admissions Sues Naval Academy Over Race-Based Admissions
By Micaela Burrow, The Daily Caller News Foundation A legal group fighting against affirmative action sued the U.S. Naval...
The Navy and Diversity
By Capt. Brent Ramsey, US Navy In recent years, the Navy has put a lot of emphasis on “Diversity”. If you visit the Navy’s...