By Scott Powell, The Patriot Post It is a sad chapter in American history when the secretary of defense, Lloyd Austin, takes...
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Military’s Quest for Marxist DEI Imperils Nation
By Brig. General Blaine Holt, US Air Force ret Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI), a mainstay of Marxist ideology has...
Hearing: Recruiting Shortfalls and Growing Mistrust: Perceptions of the US Military
A hearing on Capitol Hill was held on 13 December 2023 to provide members with an understanding of the perceptions of the...
CDR Salamander’s Take on the NDAA
The Commander’s analysis is worth reading, especially Part III to understand the good news and the bad news and what...
Ideology, not lack of funds, is behind our military’s recruiting crisis
By Eddie Gallagher, US Navy SEAL veteran and Dena Cruden America’s military is in crisis, and it’s not one caused by the...
NDAA Does Not Put America’s Security First
By Lt. General Keith Kellogg, US Army ret Lieutenant General (Retired) Keith Kellogg, Co-Chair of the Center for American...
NDAA headed to Biden’s desk sans reinstatement language for vax refusers
By J.M. Phelps Before leaving town for the year, the U.S. House of Representatives on Thursday passed the National Defense...
House passes the annual Defense authorization bill
“With this NDAA conference report, you almost feel like a parent who’s sent their child off to summer camp and they come...
RAND REPORT: What Americans Think About Veterans and Military Service
(RAND) Fiscal year 2022 was one of the worst U.S. military recruitment years on record, with all services apart from the...
Poll: Vast Majority of Veterans Think the Military is Too ‘Woke’
According to a new nationwide poll from the American Principles Project (APP), nearly three-quarters of veterans think the...
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion is a Moral Sickness Infecting Our Military
By Patrick “Kit” Bobko, USAFA ’91, USAF veteran The political vigilantism taking place under the banner of...
Defense Bill Ditches Ban On Abortion Travel And Transgender Treatments
By Micaela Burrow, The Daily Caller News Foundation A compromise version of the final defense bill got rid of proposals in...
Supreme Court wipes rulings on federal employee, military vaccine mandates
The Supreme Court wiped a series of rulings implicating the Biden administration’s vaccine mandates for federal employees...
Democrats Propose Solving Their Military Recruitment Crisis With Illegal Aliens
Americans have just witnessed another historic moment: not only a new record for the most single-day border arrests ever...
Rescinded or not, ex-military members still ask SCOTUS to take up Defense Dept’s COVID vax mandate
The Defense Department’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate has been rescinded, but two ex-service members are still asking the...
NDAA 2024 Defense Bill Results
From trying to put a positive spin on things to the negative, read the articles: Defense bill scores big wins for GOP on...
‘Tired Of The Secrets’: Defense Bill Gives Parents Greater Oversight Of Pentagon Schools
By Michaela Burrow, The Daily Caller News Foundation Military parents would be guaranteed deeper involvement in their...
Communist China-linked Electric Batteries at US Military Bases
Another reason why the Pentagon’s woke green/climate change agenda push in the military is a bad idea. Where do the...
Tuberville Abortion Fight Is The Tip Of Extremist Policies The Pentagon Has Embedded In Our Military
By Elaine Donnelly President, Center for Military Readiness STARRS Board of Advisors After weeks of pressure and threats...
Sen. Tuberville on Pentagon’s illegal taxpayer-funding of abortion
(Press Release) U.S. Senator Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) delivered remarks on the Senate floor about the Pentagon’s illegal...
The Bolduc Brief: America’s Struggle to Win Wars: A Reflection on Divisiveness and Lack of Commitment
By BG Don Bolduc, US Army ret The ability to win wars and conflicts is vital to a nation’s sovereignty and security...
The U.S. Military Went Woke. Time To Make Some Changes at the Top
If the nation is to reclaim the military as an institution built for victory in war, conservatives must have the courage and...
Congressmen: Biden Admin ‘Intent on Destroying Our Military’ through DEI, CRT
President Joe Biden’s insistence that the military indoctrinate soldiers in left-wing orthodoxy by demanding a record...
US Military Changes Number of Post-Vaccine Myocarditis Cases
The U.S. Department of Defense has changed the number of post-vaccination heart inflammation cases it identified, the latest...
DOD Blocks US Navy Medical Officer’s Computer Access After Exposing Surge in Heart Issues Among Pilots Following C19 Vax
Lieutenant Ted Macie, an active-duty officer in the Navy Medical Service Corps and whistleblower, has been barred from...
“Digging ourselves out of a hole”: Thoughts on recruiting crisis
By Martin Stanton, retired US Army officer Small Wars Journal In the past year we have been bombarded by stories about the...
12 reasons why military going Electric with their vehicles is a bad idea
Over 4,000 car dealerships sent an open letter to the Biden administration asking to put the brakes on a planned move for...
Congress: Stop the Cultural Transformation of our Military!
By Scott McQuarrie III, USMA ’72 President, Veterans for Fairness and Merit Here is an American Thinker article by a...
Marxism at advanced military schools?
For those of you who remember the Cold War, the Soviet communists—whose god was their State—were perennial opposed to...
Military Could Owe Billions to Service Members Involuntarily Discharged for Refusing COVID Shots
The U.S. military could owe billions in back pay and legal fees depending on the outcome of three class-action...
The U.S. Military Compromised By Wokeism
On Jesse Kelly’s podcast show, The First, retired Army Major Chase Spears says he left the military once he saw it...
Why Don’t Americans Want to Fight for America?
By Brian Mark Weber, Patriot Post America’s status as a superpower has gone unchallenged for decades, thanks in large part...
Reagan Institute 2023 Poll on Confidence in the Military
Buried in the survey data is this: Confidence in the military was at 70% in 2018 but is now at 45% in 2021. Come to your own...
DEI at Walter Reed
A recent article on DOD’s DVIDS talks about an Army Captain at the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center with...
What do Climate Change, DEI and Integrity Have in Common?
By MG Joe Arbuckle U.S. Army (ret) STARRS Vice Chairman The below opinion is about the connections between political...
Retired Army Officer says he was barred from publicly recognizing ‘Woke’ policies are harming recruitment
By J.M. Phelps, The Epoch Times The Pentagon is aware of how progressive policies are contributing to the U.S. Army’s...
Interview with Army MG Joe Arbuckle (ret)
STARRS Vice Chairman MG Joe Arbuckle (US Army ret) was a guest on Rightside Radio with host Col. Phil Williams (USA ret)...
How to ‘un-woke’ the US military, one bill at a time
By Congressman Jim Banks Navy Reserve Lieutenant, deployed to Afghanistan Congress will soon have the chance to roll back...
DOJ fails to stop Rachel Levine’s emails being exposed in litigation over Alabama’s sex change ban for minors
The Department of Justice’s attempt to stop Alabama’s ban on sex change procedures and medications for...
Congressman: Pentagon Wants ‘Social Justice’ Warriors Instead of Actual Warriors
Rep. Matt Gaetz, who has led the charge against the Pentagon’s unceasing fascination with wokeness, fired another salvo...
Senate and House to negotiate military spending budget
Democrat and Republican lawmakers will hash out the next fiscal year’s military spending budget, also known as the...
Reservist sidelined over COVID vax mandate thinks reversal tied to sagging recruitment
An Air Force reservist who fought a two-year battle for reinstatement after seeking religious and medical exemptions to the...
Congressman: The military is not the military that people signed up to serve in
Texas Congressman Ronny Jackson was on Fox “Hannity” discussing how the Army dismissed troops over refusing the...
‘They Have Lost My Trust’: Former Army Surgeon Rips DOD For Begging Unvaccinated Personnel To Return
By Harold Hutchinson, The Daily Caller News Foundation A former Army surgeon blasted the Department of Defense, saying she...
New Documentary Tells Story of Space Force Commander Who Spoke Out on CRT, Wokeness in Military
Production began last week on a documentary about former Space Force Lt. Col. Matthew Lohmeier, who faced retaliation for...
Pentagon asks for $114M to spend on diversity, equity, inclusion and accessibility in 2024
The Department of Defense (DOD) is requesting approximately $114 million to finance its latest round of diversity...
Congressmen ask NSA hard questions about its DEI glossary
Congressmen Mike Waltz and Jim Banks sent a letter to the NSA Director about its ultra-woke DEI glossary. Obvious NSA has...
Trans vets threaten VA over delayed transgender surgeries
Millions of veterans in the United States with serious health problems who have to wait a long time to get care from the VA...
Former Troops Punished over Biden’s Vaccine Mandate Sue for Billions in Lost Wages
Former troops are suing the U.S. government for lost pay and benefits due to the Biden administration’s military vaccine...
The Army’s Two-Faced Covid Memo
By Major Chase Spears, US Army ret This month the Army quietly released a memorandum that circulated through its recruiting...