By Army Officer Peter Mitchell The next time one hears of virtue, honor, and “the profession of arms” in the U.S. military...
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Restoring Honor Culture in the U.S. Military
Military Service is a Privilege, not a Constitutional Right
By Lt. Col. Allen West, USA ret STARRS Board of Advisors Executive Director of the American Constitutional Rights Union...
Military Blocked From Expunging ‘Transgenders’
By Thomas Gallatin | Patriot Post Gender-confused troops in the U.S. military are a problem, and the Trump administration...
Underlying strength of Secretary Hegseth’s USMA speech is its dismissal of Cultural Marxism
By Major Donald E. Vandergriff, USA ret | From his Substack I watched Secretary of War Pete Hegseth’s May 23, 2026...
WHY VOTE? Seth Keshel’s Veteran Perspective
By Seth Keshel, Army Veteran I am not only a proud Army veteran who served in Afghanistan during the 2010-11 troop surge...
New DEI order for contractors is already being enforced as a legal challenge unfolds
On The Federal Drive with Terry Gerton podcast, she interviews Dan Ramish, a Partner with Haynes Boone. The administration’s...
Deal Team Six: Finally, the Pentagon Makes Defense Contractors an Offer They Can’t Refuse
By Jay Rogers On May 7, Secretary of War Pete Hegseth released a video that made me laugh out loud in the best way possible...
Air Force updates religious accommodation process, eliminates Religious Resolution Teams
(USAF) The Department of the Air Force released a guidance memorandum updating DAFI 52-201, Religious Freedom in the...
Secretary Hegseth Announces Department-Wide Review of the Military Legal System
Secretary Hegseth has announced that he is convening a special review panel to conduct a comprehensive, long-term...
Statement by Chief Pentagon Spokesman on New Memos: “Establishment of the Dept of War C19 Reinstatement & Reconciliation Task Force” and “Reinstating Service Members Unjustly Discharged Under the C19 Vax Mandate”
(Pentagon) The Department of War continues to take decisive action in support of the many Service members adversely impacted...
They are burrowing in plain sight
From the Commander’s article, “…In 2009, Admiral Roughead as CNO started his road show visiting Sailors in...
Top Research University with $2.8B Dept. of War Contracts Skirts Civil Rights Laws, Pushes DEI
By Jonathan Butcher | The Daily Signal Carnegie Mellon University is skirting civil rights laws, making the university ripe...
Active Duty Military and Social Media
By @Cynical Publius, retired Army Colonel An emerging issue amidst the Trump 47 administration is the wisdom of active duty...
The Secret Sauce of the Revival of the War Department: Merit Reigns
During a recent Capitol Hill hearing, SecWar Pete Hegseth made powerful statements. Watch video: .@SecWar: “The mantra...
New Film Exposes Fallout From Military COVID Vaccine Mandates
STARRS leaders were able to preview a new documentary coming out in June about the real-life experiences of those in the...
US NAVY: Restoration of Honor and Careers for Individuals Unjustly Discharged Due to Covid-19 Vaccine Refusal
ALNAV from Acting Secretary of the Navy Hung Cao: ALN26019 (.pdf) See pdf for list of REFs Honorable, efficient, and...
Pentagon Update on C19 Vax Remedies
Under Secretary of War for Personnel and Readiness Anthony Tata (retired US Army Brig. General and USMA 1981 grad) gave an...
Pentagon highlights more examples of C19 vax reinstatements
Pentagon social media accounts continue to highlight military people reinstated back to service after having left because of...
The Club, The Purge, And The Collapse Of Accountability Inside The U.S. Military
By Mark W. Castillon, Army National Guard Veteran I understand exactly how this is supposed to go. I’m supposed to stay...
We should all want GROUND TRUTH–and we sure aren’t getting it from our legacy media
By Lt. General Rod Bishop, USAF ret, USAFA ’74 STARRS Board of Directors Chairman Emeritus See the above headline in a...
Hegseth: Flu Vaccine Optional
By C. Todd Lopez | Pentagon News Annual influenza vaccines are no longer mandatory, said Secretary of War Pete Hegseth in a...
Impeaching Pete
The Powerline blog has a good synopsis of the ridiculous impeachment charges against the Secretary of War: In a little over...
“Merit drives promotion and opportunity. Not someone’s sex or race”
DOJ Press Release: IBM Pays $17 Million to Resolve Allegations of Discrimination Through Illegal DEI Practices On April 10...
The Pattern of US Military’s Anthrax & COVID Mandates
On the Feds for Freedom podcast: Before COVID mandates… There were Anthrax mandates. In this explosive episode of The Feds...
Crewmen Waiting To Be Rescued Don’t Need DEI, They Need A Competent Military
By Col. William A. Woodruff, US Army lawyer, retired As the details of the complex, daring, and successful rescue of two...
Scouting America’s Pentagon-Mandated Return to American Roots
By Jay Rogers, USMC veteran Picture this: a twelve-year-old stands at the edge of a cold lake at 0600, staring down his...
”What do you want your military to be?”
By Lt Colonel Robert “Buzz” Patterson, USAF ret STARRS Board of Advisors “There are ways in which a ruler can bring...
Hegseth’s transformation of the Pentagon continues apace
By Mike Brest | Washington Examiner Secretary of War Pete Hegseth’s ousting of Army chief of staff Gen. Randy George is just...
Hegseth Authorizes Off-Duty Service Members to Carry Private Firearms on Installations
Remember Fort Hood By Matthew Olay | Pentagon News Secretary of War Pete Hegseth signed a memorandum directing military...
Pentagon cites ‘meritocracy’ as reported officer promotion removals
The latest political information warfare campaign being carried out by the leftist media and the deep state/national...
Fact Sheets Fact Sheet: President Donald J. Trump Addresses DEI Discrimination by Federal Contractors
(The White House) ADDRESSING DEI DISCRIMINATION BY FEDERAL CONTRACTORS: Today, President Donald J. Trump signed an Executive...
EXECUTIVE ORDER: Addressing DEI Discrimination by Federal Contractors
(The White House) By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of...
Where Have All the Young Men Gone?
By Lt. Col. Karen McKay, USA ret When Richard Nixon ended the draft in January 1973, America lost something vital to its...
Pentagon Highlighting Reinstatements
Pentagon social media accounts have been highlighting military people who left because of the Covid vax mandate but came...
Hegseth Announces Reforms to Chaplain Corps
By Matthew Olay | Pentagon News Secretary of War Pete Hegseth yesterday announced a pair of reforms to the military’s...
Restoring The Ranks Or Repeating The Process?
By Mark W. Castillon, Army National Guard Veteran A Critical Analysis of the Military’s COVID-19 Reinstatement Initiative...
Democrats Blast Hegseth for Feeding Troops but Ignored Biden’s Disastrous DEI Spending
By Matt Lamb | AMAC In the latest manufactured outrage directed at Secretary of War Pete Hegseth, elected Democrats and the...
The Way of War of Our Enemies
By @CynicalPublius on X, retired Army Colonel In every hot war the United States has become involved in since the Korean...
SecWar update on Covid-19 Reinstatements
Secretary of War Pete Hegseth gives an update on the Department of War’s efforts to reinstate those service members...
Things I Voted For, Volume II
By Michael A. Thiac, retired Army intelligence officer Purging the armed forces of the Obamaites must continue till all...
Statement by Chief Pentagon Spokesman Sean Parnell on “Strengthening the Effectiveness of Our Senior Service Colleges
(Pentagon) The Department of War is committed to maximizing taxpayer dollars on warrior education, and to equipping our...
SecWar Forms Task Force on Senior Service Colleges
Secretary of War Pete Hegseth posted a video on X regarding the formation of a task force led by Anthony Tata, the...
Hegseth Calls for Assessment, Alignment of DOW Legal Functions, Operations
By Matthew Olay | Pentagon News Secretary of War Pete Hegseth today called on the joint forces service secretaries to work...
Department of War Scorecard in President Trump’s Second Term
By Capt. Brent Ramsey, USN ret STARRS Board of Advisors What are the successes of the Department of War (DOW) since...
DEI May Be Gone in Name—Its Enforcers Still Hold the Levers of Power
By Mark W. Castillon, Army National Guard Veteran The administration won the policy war. The bureaucracy won the peace—and...
In Defense of What? The Real Crisis at America’s War Colleges Isn’t Criticism—It’s Denial
By Col. Rob Maness, USAF ret STARRS Board of Advisors I read Matthew Woessner’s piece “In Defense of War...
Miller says Trump ‘unleashed’ military from ‘woke Pentagon’ constraints after years of political correctness
“One of the reasons I fear that some people in this country lost faith in the military and the capacity to use that...
Statement by Chief Pentagon Spokesman, Sean Parnell, on ‘Aligning Senior Service College Opportunities With American Values’
(Pentagon) The Department of War is committed to maximizing taxpayer dollars on warrior education, and to equipping our...
SecWar: Fixing the military’s Professional Military Education system
Secretary of War Pete Hegseth is cancelling Department of War attendance at woke universities pushing leftist ideologies and...