By C. Todd Lopez | DOD News The Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps and Space Force met their contracting goals for new...
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Reforming the Military’s Fitness Standards Is Vital, but Not the Only Step
By Tony Perkins | Washington Stand From the playing field to the battlefield, the realities of biology cannot be ignored...
Mixing Military and Politics
By Col. Phil Williams, USA ret STARRS Board of Advisors U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth issued a new directive that...
DOD Welcomes Back Service Members Impacted by COVID-19 Vaccine Mandate
(DOD) The Defense Department is taking significant steps to reinstate service members who were discharged due to the now...
If Congress Doesn’t Step In, Rogue Judges Will Trans The Military
By Elaine Donnelly President, Center for Military Readiness Former Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer recently...
STARRS Town Hall | The Military’s Leftwing Ideological Resistance: Fighting Back Against the Military Reforms of the President and SecDef
STARRS held its quarterly Town Hall meeting on 9 April 2025 with special guest speakers Sam Shoemate, a retired Army...
U.S. Navy Invites Former Sailors to Apply for Reentry under Executive Order 14184
(Dept of Navy) The United States Navy is inviting former Sailors who voluntarily left the service or allowed their service...
Air Force personnel INVOLUNTARILY DISCHARGED over vaccine mandate offered reinstatement
(Dept of Air Force) The Department of Defense is offering a pathway for reinstatement for service members involuntarily...
Air Force personnel who VOLUNTARILY LEFT over vaccine mandate offered path back
(Dept of Air Force) The Department of Defense is offering a path back to service for military personnel who voluntarily...
Reviving Warfighter Culture by Removing Divisive DEI – With Brig. General Chris Petty, USA ret
In this episode of STARRS & Stripes, host CDR Al Palmer, USN ret, interviews STARRS Board of Directors member retired...
DOD Task Force to Assess Progress of DEI Elimination
By Matthew Olay | DOD News – Pentagon A nine-member Defense Department task force headed by Jules W. Hurst III, an...
Drew Dix on Military Readiness and the Warrior Ethos
STARRS Board of Advisors Drew Dix explores the Warrior Ethos and US military readiness to fight and win the next war: (and...
The Menace of Malicious Compliance in Our Military
By Beege Welborn | HotAir The poster boys for the modern woke military might be long gone, but the damage they did and the...
The Order Was To Purge DEI, Not History
By Major Chase Spears, PhD, US Army, ret Served as an Army PAO Several times recently I started to write a warning to the...
Pentagon Review of Close Combat Training Standards is Long Overdue
By Elaine Donnelly President, Center for Military Readiness The Center for Military Readiness (CMR) applauds Secretary of...
BAD NEWS: Court orders USAF to rescind its pronouns/trans prohibitions
Going backwards: Department of the Air Force releases update memorandum on implementation of additional guidance for...
Defense Secretary Directs Services to Match Combat Arms Standards to Mission Requirements
By C. Todd Lopez | DOD News The secretary of defense on Sunday directed military departments to build plans that define and...
How To Deal With “Signalgate”—a Guide to the Perplexed
By Lani Kass, PhD STARRS Board of Advisors Last week, The Atlantic published an explosive report claiming that its editor-in...
Hegseth Is Right To Hold Military Men And Women To The Same Fitness Standards
By Lt. Col. Samantha Nerove, USA ret Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth has announced a new policy of one standard in combat...
‘Forge Warriors, Rebuild Strength, Restore Deterrence,’ Hegseth Tells Midshipmen During Naval Academy Visit
By Army Maj. Wes Shinego | DOD News The Brigade of Midshipmen greeted Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth with thunderous...
Hegseth Bids Adieu to Military Wokeness
By Rebecca Buis and Wilson Beaver | The Daily Signal For the past four years, the very foundations of America have been...
LtGen Dan Caine Hearing to be Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff
The Senate Armed Services Committee held a hearing on April 1, 2025 to consider the nomination of Lt. General Dan Caine to...
Secretary of Defense Directed Review of Physical Fitness Standards for Combat Arms Occupations
(Pentagon) The strength of our military is rooted in its high standards – they are the foundation of our military’s...
Executive Order: Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History
(WHITE HOUSE) By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America...
Trump Orders Return Of Removed Monuments Dismantled During Biden Era
By Thomas English | The Daily Caller News Foundation President Donald Trump signed an executive order Thursday directing...
DEOMI pausing military equal-opportunity training up to 6 months to review Trump executive orders
By Rick Neale | Florida Today The Defense Equal Opportunity Management Institute at Patrick Space Force Base is pausing...
Review of Department of Defense Advisory Committees
The SECDEF’s Chief of Staff is directing a review of all DOD advisory committees. Here’s the key portion of this...
Problem of active-duty officers openly against the Commander-in-Chief
By retired Army Colonel Cynical Publius (@CynicalPublius on X) There is an enormous problem in our nation’s military, one...
The Joint Non-Negotiables: Important warfighter ethos memo from the Senior Enlisted Advisor to the Chairman, Joint Staff
The Warfighter ethos is back. Important memo from USMC Sergeant Major Troy Black, the Senior Enlisted Advisor to the...
Defense Secretary begins reversing military wokeness by firing two JAGs
By Andre Perrard | San Antonio News Radio 1200 The American military has been on a backward slide into Leftist gender...
SECDEF Hegseth eliminates $580 million on wasteful ‘woke’ spending
By Bethany Blankley | The Center Square In an ongoing effort to identify and cut wasteful spending at the U.S. Department of...
Military Should Be Defined by Effectiveness, Not Ideology
By Tony Perkins | The Washington Stand Last week, U.S. District Judge Ana C. Reyes, a Biden appointee, halted President...
The Role of Masculinity in Military Effectiveness and Lethality
By Dr. Meaghan Mobbs, USMA 2008, Former Army Captain Independent Women’s Center for Safety and Security Director Recently...
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...