By Dr. Meaghan Mobbs, USMA 2008, Former Army Captain Independent Women’s Center for Safety and Security Director Recently...
Category - DOD
The Role of Masculinity in Military Effectiveness and Lethality
The Real Cold War with Drew Dix
STARRS Board of Advisor Drew Dix, a Medal of Honor Recipient, talks about his previously sensitive operational mission in...
The Constitution Comes First: How Our Military Legal System Lost Its Way – Judge Bruce Tucker Smith
On this episode of STARRS & Stripes, host Al Palmer talks with Judge Bruce Tucker Smith, a 21-year veteran JAG officer...
The Military’s Dangerous Double Standard for Women in Combat
By Victoria Manning | Restoration News It’s imperative to adopt American military policies that create the strongest...
Gaslighting Headlines Regarding DEI Content Purge in DOD
STARRS On 26 February 2025, the Pentagon issued a memo entitled, “Digital Content Refresh” that said by March 5...
Read the Room: Kendall claims DEI purge will weaken military
Former Secretary of the Air Force Frank Kendall, a West Point grad who is “left of Marx” according to one of his...
Biden-Appointed Judge Blocks Trump Ban On Transgender Service Members
By Wallace White | Daily Caller News Foundation In a ruling Tuesday, a Biden-appointed federal judge blocked President...
Military Kids “Rebel” Against DEI Removal: Woke indoctrination at DODEA Schools
Observe the reactions and actions from teachers and kids at DODEA schools in response to the Commander-in-Chief’s and...
The Woke Military: A Question of Paternity
By Judge Bruce Tucker Smith Retired USAF Judge Advocate and DHS Administrative Law Judge The woke military is the bastard...
Biden Department Of Veterans Affairs Provided Transgender Procedures Despite Ban, Documents Show
By Luke Rosiak | The Daily Wire The Department of Veterans Affairs for years defied a rule barring “gender alterations” to...
Former Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall’s Claim that Trump is a “Rogue” President: Hypocrisy, Projection, or Both?
By Col. William A. Woodruff, US Army lawyer, retired In a Guest Opinion in the February 24, 2025, New York Times, former...
How DEI and Marxism Threaten U.S. Defense with Ronald Scott on The Truth & Liberty Show
STARRS President and CEO Col. Ron Scott, PhD, USAF ret, USAFA ’73 was interviewed on the Truth & Liberty show to...
VA to Phase Out Treatment for Gender Dysphoria
All savings from this change will go to helping paralyzed Veterans and amputees (VA Press Release) In response to President...
President Trump Is Not Weakening Our National Security or Our Military
By Larry Purdy, USNA ’68 Thank you for allowing me to respond to retired Navy Admiral Dennis Blair’s commentary...
Course Correction Required for Naval War College’s Women, Peace, and Security Program
By Rebecca Buis and Capt. Brent Sadler, USN ret, USNA ’94 | The Daily Signal At a February town hall, Secretary of...
Department of the Navy Announces New Policy on Sailors with Gender Dysphoria
(US Navy) The Department of the Navy announced policy changes for Sailors with a current diagnosis or history of gender...
Getting Out of Forever Wars
By Major General Don McGregor, USAF, ret. Since the 9/11 attacks, the United States has been mired in “forever...
Military Paradigm Swinging Away from Wokeism Toward Meritocracy
By Elaine Donnelly President, Center for Military Readiness We are witnessing in our military a major paradigm shift toward...
Secretary Hegseth says the DOD does not do ‘climate change crap’
By Greg Wehner | Fox News U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) Secretary Pete Hegseth said Sunday that his department...
SECDEF: Rapid Force-Wide Review of Military Standards
(Pentagon) Today Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth ordered a department-wide review of existing standards set by U.S...
‘Smartest Guy In The Room’: Meet The Man Trump Just Tapped To Head America’s Highest Military Office
By Wallace White | The Daily Caller News Foundation President Donald Trump’s new nominee for the highest military officer...
Pentagon Culls Social Science Research, Prioritizes Fiscal Responsibility and Technologies for Future Battlefield
(Pentagon/DOD News) The Office of the Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering (OUSD(R&E)) is scrapping its...
DoD eliminates leftism as military recruitment bounce signals surge in Gen Z patriotism
By Emily Sturge | Campus Reform Senior at University of Florida Young people are experiencing a revival in American values...
SECDEF Hegseth: “The warfighters are back in charge.”
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth was recently interview by Laura Ingraham during their visit to GITMO and as part of that...
Update on DEI and Vax Remedy Issues in the Military
STARRS Vice Chairman Maj Gen Joe Arbuckle, USA ret, was interviewed about DEI and the vax remedy issue in the military by...
Response to Five Former SECDEFs “Open Letter” Criticizing Trump
By Larry Purdy, USNA ’68 Joining Rhode Island Democratic Senator Jack Reed’s partisan handwringing over President...
Military Service JAGs Fired by Secretary Hegseth For a Reason
STARRS Board of Advisor member Col. Rob Maness, USAF ret, discussed the recent firings of JAGS with Commander Rob Green...
President Says Military Recruiting Up, So Too Will be American Shipbuilding, ‘Golden Dome’
(Pentagon/DOD News) During his first address to a joint session of Congress, March 4, 2025, President Donald J. Trump said...
Of “Independence” and “Guardrails”: The Military Left’s Lamentable Response to SecDef’s Firing of Service TJAGS
By Judge Bruce Tucker Smith Retired Department of Homeland Security ALJ and retired USAF Judge Advocate On February 24...
Lethality in Education: Athenian Scholarship, Roman Virtus, Maccabean Grit, & Muscular Christianity
By Lt. Col. Chuck Duray, PhD, USA ret, USMA ’92 STARRS Volunteer For many years, the U.S. military possessed...
The Animus of Ignorance: Contextualizing Hatred from “Brothers-In-Arms”
By Grant Smith, Army veteran A fellow Army field grade officer, LTC Dan Wagner, recently took to social media to express his...
DOD IG: Termination of the Oversight Projects Related to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
(DOD IG) On January 20, 2025, the President issued Executive Orders, “Ending Radical and Wasteful Government Diversity...
Why identity politics has no place in national defense
By Michelle Thibeau, USMA 2014 grad The Defense Department’s decision to eliminate identity-based observances such as Pride...
DAF: No more non-essential travel to things like DEI events at Pentagon
We recall this story from June 2023: Air Force uses taxpayer money for personnel to travel to pride events in DC where a...
DAF releases additional guidance for Executive Order 14183, Prioritizing Military Excellence and Readiness
(Dept of the Air Force) The Department of Defense released the memorandum Additional Guidance for Executive Order 14183...
DOGE initial findings on Defense Department DEI spending could save $80M, agency says
By Louis Casiano | Fox News The Department of Defense could save up to $80 million in wasteful spending by cutting loose a...
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth Renames Fort Moore to Fort Benning
(Pentagon) Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth signed a memorandum renaming Fort Moore in Georgia to Fort Benning. The new...
Who Really Politicized the Pentagon?
By Victor Davis Hanson | American Greatness Five former Secretaries of Defense—William Perry, Leon Panetta, Chuck Hagel...
DOD: Gender Dysphoria Incompatible With Military, Service Members Must Serve in Accordance With Sex
(Pentagon) Service members diagnosed with gender dysphoria will soon be processed for separation by their respective...
President Trump Was Right to Fire C.Q. Brown
By Will Thibeau, US Army Ranger veteran In removing General Charles Q. Brown, Jr. as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff...
Military merit: Hegseth doubles down
By Mike McDaniel, USAF Veteran I remember the first day of basic training in the USAF in the early 70s. We were shuffled...
Whistleblower: There’s a Trans Cult Inside the NSA
By Christopher Rufo | City Journal This week, City Journal broke the story of the National Security Agency’s secret sex...
Pentagon spent millions injecting DEI into science and medicine
By Robert Schmad | Washington Examiner The Department of Defense spends millions of dollars every year on...
Congressman reveals after F-16 ride why Trump’s leadership is already paying off for military
By Andrew Mark Miller | Fox News Fox News Digital spoke to GOP Rep. Abe Hamadeh about the state of the U.S. military after...
ALNAV Message: Department of Navy Implementation of Executive Order 14168 – Gender Ideology
If you’ve been wondering where the Navy orders are, this is the first one, dated 18 February 2025: CLASSIFICATION:...
DOD SITREP: “DEI is dead at the DOD”
In the first DOD SITREP video that that Chief Pentagon Spokesman Sean Parnell made, included in it was this: “Our...
Developments at the Pentagon
Frank Gaffney, host of Securing America, talked with STARRS Vice Chairman Major General Joe Arbuckle about some of the...
Joint Position Papers and Submissions for NDAA
In November 2024, leaders and associates in STARRS teamed up with the MacArthur Society (MS) and Calvert Task Group (CTG) to...
Pentagon Releases Digital Content Refresh Memorandum
(Pentagon) In alignment with President Trump’s Executive Orders and Secretary Hegseth’s directives, this...