By S.A. McCarthy | The Washington Stand Just one week before America celebrates the birth of Christ, War Secretary Pete...
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War Department Moves to ‘Make Chaplain Corps Great Again’
NDAA restores women’s policy teams canceled in Pentagon DEI purge
By Hope Hodge Seck | Military Times Days after Pete Hegseth was installed as the Pentagon’s top civilian, some all-volunteer...
Congress strips merit from the military and shackles the president in one bill
By Will Thibeau, veteran Army Ranger, and Lukas Wagner The National Defense Authorization Act restores DEI loopholes...
Mark Kelly Faces Escalated Review of Alleged Misconduct From Pentagon
By George Caldwell | The Daily Signal The Pentagon is plowing ahead in its investigation of Arizona Democrat Sen. Mark...
Rhetoric Is Unfairly Harming the Reputation of Our Military
By Col. William Connor, USA ret, The Citadel, ’90 Chairman, STARRS Board of Advisors On Dec. 4, the 2025 Reagan National...
The Dangers of Undermining U.S. Civil–Military Relations
By Col. Mackubin Owens, USMC (ret) A fundamental element of U.S. civil–military relations is the principle of civilian...
One Man’s Fight for the Many
By Justin Chartrey | Crosspolitic News From a stage in Quantico, Virginia at the end of September, Secretary of War, Pete...
Air Force One-Star General Officer’s Fight Against Autopen, Bureaucracy, and Injustice
By J.M. Phelps | Gateway Pundit Do President Donald Trump and War Secretary Pete Hegseth recognize the bureaucratic...
Biggest Military Funding Bill Still Allows Promoting Soldiers By Race And Sex
By Col. William A. Woodruff, US Army lawyer, retired Five months ago, in these pages I expressed concern that Congress was...
War Department Reevaluates Discharge Characterizations for COVID Vaccine Refusal
By C. Todd Lopez | DOW / Pentagon News For service members involuntarily discharged solely for refusing to take the COVID-19...
Statement on the Restoring Honor to Service Members Separated Under the Coronavirus Disease 2019 Vaccine Mandate Memorandum
(DOW Press Release) The Secretary of War recently directed the military departments to proactively review personnel records...
Partisan Disparity Of Investigations – A Way Ahead To Speed Conclusion Of Investigation Of General (retired) Milley’s Conduct
By George Agese, Military Veteran The credibility of the United States military depends not only on its ability to defend...
GOP’s 2026 NDAA Doesn’t Go Far Enough for America First Principles
By Victoria Manning | Restoration News Republicans fail to solidify Trump’s important military reforms through...
Federal appeals court lets Pentagon reinstate transgender service ban, says judge overstepped military leaders
By Jasmine Baehr, David Spunt, Bill Mears | Fox News A divided federal appeals court on Tuesday allowed the Pentagon to...
FY26 NDAA: Rebuilding American Power Through President Trump’s Peace Through Strength Agenda
(Mike Johnson Press Release) This week, House Republicans are advancing the FY26 NDAA — the centerpiece of President Trump’s...
FY ’26 NDAA Conference Bill
By Scott McQuarrie, USMA ’72 President of Veterans for Fairness & Merit The FY ’26 NDAA final bill is available...
Navy Public Affairs Officer Speaks Out
Dr. Chase Spears (retired Army Major PAO) welcomes Navy Commander Theresa Carpenter—30-year public affairs veteran, Stories...
DEI: Rooted in America and the Military by Cultural Marxism
For decades, Marxist and Bolshevik-inspired cultural theories have shaped American institutions, dividing society and...
The War on Pete Hegseth
By Cynical Publius, retired Army Colonel @CynicalPublius on X Pete Hegseth is facing a calculated smear campaign because he...
The Seditious Six: Military Orders, Outrage and the Law
NEW STARRS PODCAST: Hot takes made it sound groundbreaking: elected officials urged service members to “disobey unlawful...
An Interview With Under Secretary Of The Navy Hung Cao
By Todd Wood, USAFA ’86 | Armed Forces Press Pentagon, Washington, D.C.- I sat down with Under Secretary of the Navy...
Hegseth Considers Breaking with Woke Scouts after Longtime Pentagon Partnership
By Suzanne Bowdey | The Washington Stand The last 12 years haven’t been kind to the Boy Scouts — and they have no one to...
The Seditious Six
By Col. William A. Woodruff, US Army lawyer, retired The posting of a video urging members of the military to disobey...
Cornell Law Professor Shreds ‘Entirely Unconvincing’ War Crime Accusation Against Hegseth
By Hank Berrien | The Daily Wire In the debate ignited by the Washington Post’s explosive report — alleging that War...
U.S. Military’s Alliance With Boy Scouts Could Collapse As Hegseth Calls Out DEI Overreach
By Hank Berrien | The Daily Wire War Secretary Pete Hegseth is reportedly preparing to sever the military’s century-old...
War Dept. Battles Internal Resistance To Reinstate 86 Soldiers Ejected By Covid Shot Mandate
Also see video after this article of the author talking about this issue. By Joy Pullman | The Federalist It’s been ten...
West Point and Naval War College Professor Calls the America First Movement a ‘Hateful Cult’
By Victoria Manning | Restoration News …and bragged that he would celebrate President Trump’s death with champagne. Retired...
Military organizations’ urgent call for pardons or amnesty ignored
By J.M. Phelps | WorldNetDaily Although the U.S. military’s mandate that service members receive the COVID-19 shot...
How Pete Hegseth Is Strengthening America’s Military
By Clifford A. Bates Jr. | The American Mind In 1991, the Tailhook scandal rocked the U.S. Navy. Hundreds of aviators at a...
30-Year JAG Veteran Schools Democrats for Video Calling for Sedition in the Military
By Capt. Charles “Cully” Stimson US Navy JAG Corps, ret Six Democrat congressmen recently released a video directed at...
‘Unwinding the Mess’: DOD Launches Task Forces to Investigate Military COVID Vaccine Mandates
By Michael Nevradakis, Ph.D. | CHD The U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) is launching two task forces to review the...
Military Recruitment Is Surging: A Multifaceted Turnaround
By Sarah Holliday | Washington Stand “Just two years ago,” read a statement from the Department of War, “the outlook for...
Trump EO reinstates GI Bill benefits to Veterans discharged for refusing COVID vaccine
(VA Press Release) The Department of Veterans Affairs today announced that potentially thousands of Veterans who were...
“Win Our Wars”
By Francis Sempa A front-page story in the Washington Times by Ben Wolfgang is headlined “Top Officers Lose Trust in Hegseth...
The Pentagon’s DEI Generals Finally Faced Consequences
By Will Thibeau Army Ranger Veteran When President Trump dismissed several high-ranking military officers earlier this year...
Matt Lohmeier interviewed by Jack Posobiec, Veterans Day 2025
Former STARRS Executive Vice President Matthew Lohmeier, now the Under Secretary of the Air Force, was interviewed by Human...
Why Are Our Colleges Deserting Military History?
By Kali Jerrard | National Association of Scholars In honor of Veterans Day, we at the National Association of Scholars...
Did the Military Violate Trump’s DEI Executive Order?
By Tyler O’Neil | The Daily Signal The U.S. Army, Air Force, and Marine Corps appear on a list of sponsors for a...
On Veterans Day, Honor Sacrifice by Restoring the Military’s Warrior Ethos
By Doug Truax, USMA ’92 On Veterans Day, we pause from our busy lives to salute the courage of those who fought in the...
Do Women Belong in Combat?
Michelle Thibeau, USMA ’14, served in the U.S. Army Special Operations Command in Afghanistan. As a woman and a...
Pentagon policy change lets commanders override decisions on transgender troops’ status
By Jessica Botelho | The National News Desk A new Pentagon policy just made it harder for transgender troops to challenge...
Lt Gen Rod Bishop on Charlie Kirk Assassination, DEI in Military & Vaccine Mandate Fallout
Join Wayne Laugesen on Wayne’s Word Podcast for an explosive interview with retired Lt. Gen. Rod Bishop Jr.—a 34-year...
Insubordinate Officers Publicly Attack The Secretary Of War
By John Lucas, USMA ’69 Army Ranger and Special Forces Green Beret Served with the 1st Calvary Division in Vietnam Trump...
The Great Military Feminization
By Cynical Publius (on X @CynicalPublius), ret US Army Colonel If you are someone who is at all interested in modern...
Don’t Fall for It: Marine Colonel’s Resignation Letter Was a Move of PR Over Principle
By Major Chase Spears, PhD, USA ret There’s a respected tradition of men who stand publicly in their own name and resign in...
Depriving Servicemembers of Spiritual Fortification
By Col. William Connor, USA ret The Citadel, ’90 Member STARRS Board of Advisors Despite the repudiation of cultural Marxism...
He Was Pardoned by the President After Standing Up for Liberty
Join host Major Chase Spears, PhD, US Army ret, on the Finding Your Spine podcast as he welcomes Mark Bashaw, a former...
Hegseth won’t meet troops with beards during South Korea trip
By Jeff School | Task & Purpose When Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth visits South Korea this week, he will face off...
Hegseth Tells Troops In Japan ‘Our Strength Is Not Our Diversity—Our Strength Is Our Common Purpose’
Secretary of War Pete Hegseth speaks to service-members at Yokosuka Air Base in Japan. “. . . Now, for too long, in a...