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Only a Conservative Military is Capable of Defending the United States

By Major Chase Spears, PhD, USA ret Last month a federal circuit court panel in Washington, D.C. upheld the Department of...

The attacks on Border Patrol and ICE agents copy and expand on the abuse heaped on Vietnam veterans

By John Lucas, USMA ’69 Army Ranger and Special Forces Green Beret Served with the 1st Calvary Division in Vietnam We all...

Back to Warfighting: The Hegseth Doctrine Takes Shape

By Victoria Manning | Restoration News Peace through strength is back, and DEI is on life support. In just his first year...

STARRS and Remarks at the National Prayer Breakfast

The Commander-in-Chief, President Trump, gave remarks at the National Prayer Breakfast (see video below) and said some of...

Vax Reinstatements, Remedies and After-Action Review Update by SecWarP&R Anthony Tata

The Under Secretary of War for Personnel & Readiness, retired Army Brig. General Anthony Tata, USMA ’81, made a...

FOIA Uncovered: DEI and The JAG Agenda

On retired Army intelligence officer Sam Shoemate’s podcast, he interviews Mason Weiss, a former JAG Officer. Weiss...

Courage in the Ranks: Interview with Sam Shoemate

Chase Spears, PhD, a retired Army PAO, interviews retired Army intelligence officer Sam Shoemate, creator of Terminal CWO...

The Reinstatement of Troops Impacted by Tyrannical COVID Policies is Starting to Seem Like a Sham to Many

By J.M. Phelps | Gateway Pundit More than a year ago, on January 27, President Donald Trump enacted an Executive Order to...

Scouting America ‘on the clock’ to roll back DEI, War Dept says

By Stephen Sorace | Fox News The Department of War is moving to overhaul its partnership with Scouting America, saying the...

How The Military Gave A Homeless Lesbian’s ‘Minority Contracting’ Firm $19 Million

By Luke Rosiak | The Daily Wire Rhonda Valles is an aspiring California musician who once played in a band with her ex...

Lloyd Austin’s COVID Tyranny Continues As Shadow Policy at the Department of War

By Major Chase Spears, PhD, USA ret Among Morton Blackwell’s laws of the public policy process is rule 26: Personnel is...

The Pentagon right to reassess women’s effectiveness in ground combat roles

By Michelle Thibeau, USMA ’14, served in Special Operations Command in Afghanistan and Amber Smith, Former Deputy...

DOW: 365 Days of Peace Through Strength

The Department of War has made an impressive multimedia webpage of the significant activities and accomplishments of the...

Dept of War 2026 National Defense Strategy

The Department of War has released its 2026 National Defense Strategy (pdf) From the opening memo from SecWar Hegseth: For...

How The Biden Admin Tried To Keep The VA Woke After It Left Town

By Virginia Kruta | The Daily Wire In the last year of the Biden administration, the Department of Veterans Affairs...

Close Woke War Colleges?

CEO of gCaptain John Konrad posted on X, “How many times do I have to submit the request to close the Naval Woke...

It was just yesterday…

By Commander Salamander | CDR Salamander Substack Over at WSJ, recent Midrats Podcast guest and former Congressman Mike...

The Democrats’ Coup 2.0 Agenda Demands Accountability

By Major Chase Spears, PhD, USA ret I think, in many ways, the uniformed military may help save us from this president.” –...

Pagans in the Military Chapels

Chaplain, Major General Charles C. Baldwin, USAF ret, USAFA ’69 STARRS Board of Advisors “Pagan worship services are...

Paganism Must Be Rooted Out of the Military

By Victoria Manning | Restoration News Pagan worship services are now taking place in Christian chapels on military bases...

DoD Restoring America’s Fighting Force Task Force (RAFF-TF) – Initial Report to the Secretary of Defense

The March 1, 2025 DOD report on removing CRT/DEI ideology from the military has finally been released. This is the initial...

SecWar removes the oldest DEI program in the federal government—the 8(a) program

In more great news, on Friday Secretary of War Pete Hegseth posted a video on his X account about taking a...

Pentagon vows to reform military newspaper Stars and Stripes, remove ‘woke distractions’

Finally! Next do Military.com By Joseph A. Wulfsohn | Fox News The Department of War announced Thursday it is reforming the...

How DEI Caused a Military Recruitment Crisis

By Mike Gallagher and Kevin Wallsten Op-Ed in the Wall Street Journal In his recent viral essay, “The Lost Generation,”...

Make ‘Star Trek real’. Hegseth vows military AI without woke constraint

By Zac Anderson | USA Today War Secretary Pete Hegseth laid out a plan for advancing military artificial intelligence...

America’s Military Is Back

By Senator Jim Banks As we close out 2025, the Trump Administration has racked up many big wins. But none are as significant...

DOD launches review of ‘effectiveness’ of women in ground combat roles

By Tanya Noury | Military Times The Pentagon has launched a formal review of the “effectiveness” of women in ground-combat...

Pete Hegseth Takes Action Against Sen. Mark Kelly, Who Egged On Military To Defy Trump In Viral Video

By Andi Shae Napier | The Daily Caller News Foundation Secretary of War Pete Hegseth on Monday began taking steps to demote...

Unmasking the Wolf: Decoding Partisanship in Feaver’s Civil-Military Norms

By George Agese, Retired Army Officer The most dangerous wolves are those that wear the fleece of impartiality, for they...

Hegseth Did What Biden Called ‘Impossible’

By Victor Davis Hanson | The Daily Signal (published 2 weeks before Venezuela) Hello, this is Victor Davis Hanson for The...

FY25 Sees Best Recruiting Numbers in 15 Years

What a difference a year makes! And STARRS no longer has to update its document recording comments showing CRT/DEI agenda...

Congress’ National Defense Plan Misses the Mark. Trump Shouldn’t Sign It

By Doug Truax, USMA’ 92 | Restoration News Congressional Republicans spent the past year vowing to voters that they...

War Department Moves to ‘Make Chaplain Corps Great Again’

By S.A. McCarthy | The Washington Stand Just one week before America celebrates the birth of Christ, War Secretary Pete...

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, Retired Army Officer The credibility of the United States military depends not only on its ability to...

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