The Army, Navy and Air Force are preparing to miss their recruiting goals by thousands this year, service leaders said...
Category - DOD
Senate Democrats Vote to Force Americans to Fund Military Abortions
Senate Democrats voted down a bill sponsored by a pro-life Republican that would stop illegal taxpayer funding of abortion...
If Our Senior Leaders in the Military will not Fight Against Unlawful Mandates, Who Will?
Dr. Robert Malone, Ret. Army Major Gen. Paul Vallely and Ret. Lt. Col. Dave Trombly join The Constitutional Colonel Larry...
A Military Divided Cannot Stand
They may not want to admit it, but our military leaders, instructors and professors have dug the hole of political...
Joint Chiefs shuffle: Biden’s top contenders to replace Trump’s military leaders
Donald Trump handpicked the nation’s top military brass while he was in office. Now it’s Joe Biden’s turn. As many as five...
The military is converting to electric vehicles on bases, but charging them remains a challenge
The Department of Defense has mandated all military branches to convert their fleets of non-combat vehicles from gas powered...
These Are the Voices That Get Lost In the ‘Woke Military’ Debate
By Kathleen Anderson, USAF ret I served in the Air Force for over 20 years. Anyone who has worn the uniform knows that to...
The US Military Is Losing the Woke War
By Col. J. Wesley Smith, USA (ret) The United States Armed Forces exist for two primary missions: to prevent war and to...
Complete loss of trust and confidence in the military attributed to the vaccine mandate
By an anonymous military member DOD’s hateful disrespect of inherent human dignity destroyed service member and public trust...
The Military Recruitment Crisis Is a Symptom of Cultural Rot
By David McCormick, USMA ’87 and James Cunningham America’s cultural cancer manifests itself in many ways, but no...
Pentagon Diversity Degrades Meritocracy
By Forrest L. Marion, Ph.D. Retired U.S. Air Force officer and military historian Recently, “Real Time” host Bill Maher came...
Be All You Can Be
New Army ads emphasize winning, but under the Biden junta the possibilities for losing are truly limitless. In the run-up to...
Diversity: Necessary for readiness or the bogeyman?
The key sentence in this article: “The discussion showed a partisan divide so wide that it was as if the two sides...
Rep. DesJarlais Blames ‘Woke-ism And DEI’ For Military Recruiting Shortfalls
Rep. Scott DesJarlais questioned the US Secretary of Defense, Lloyd Austin, and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen...
DoD’s highest-ranking trans official is in charge of Military Readiness
Shawn Skelly left the military in 2008, thinking sHE’d never return; now sHE’s in charge of getting U.S. forces ready for...
Army veteran GOP rep pushes to impeach defense secretary over ‘woke’ military, Afghanistan debacle
A Republican legislator is pushing to impeach Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin over the chaotic Afghanistan withdrawal and for...
White House, Kirby face backlash from military veterans for defense of chaotic Afghan pullout
A retired Marine who executed many civilian rescues from Afghanistan offered a blistering rebuttal to National Security...
Missouri Attorney General Questions Department of Defense on Support of Child Transgenderism
A letter from Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey to Secretary of Defense Gen. Lloyd Austin, which was exclusively...
The Woke Military
By Tracey Meck, Colonel, USAF (Ret), USAFA ’87 Newsletter Editor and Chief Recently the senior enlisted leaders from each...
DoD Vaccine Policy Update
By Joe Arbuckle, MG, USA (Ret) STARRS Vice Chairman of the Board After NDAA Win, STARRS Continues the Fight to Restore Those...
Status of Vaccine Refusers & DoD/Service Policies
By Tracey Meck, Colonel, USAF (Ret) USAFA ’87 Newsletter Editor and Chief The FY 23 NDAA rescinded the COVID-19 vaccine...
Is There Evidence of Adverse Vaccine Impacts on Service Members?
By Tracey Meck, Colonel, USAF (Ret) USAFA ’87 Newsletter Editor and Chief The VAERS database shows more vaccine injuries in...
DOD’s 1st Pandemic Preparedness Plan In 2007 Required NO Mandated Masks Or Vaccinations
By Jim Zietlow, Colonel USAF (retired) US Air Force Academy Class of 1987 Former lead military planner for the 2007 DOD...
Military Readiness or Military Wokeness?
STARRS Board of Advisors member Elaine Donnelly was interviewed on Crosstalk to discuss military readiness versus military...
GOP Will Push Forward with Plans to Root Out ‘Woke’ Military Agenda
House Republicans expect to press forward with legislation targeting Pentagon policies they view as “woke”...
This woke Pentagon video delivers a dangerous message
By Rod Dorilas, Navy veteran When a Navy training video on the use of preferred pronouns emerged last year, many people...
Our military is in a dangerous decline and this is the reason why
By Rep. Michael Waltz, US National Guard Col. Dr. Kevin Roberts, President, Heritage Foundation The U.S. Armed Forces have...
Veterans to Congress: Wokeness is Hurting Readiness
By Dave Patterson, retired U.S. Air Force Pilot with over 180 combat missions in Vietnam and a former Principal Deputy Under...
Military’s crusade for ‘diversity’ a delusion, says vets group
American Family News journalist J.M. Phelp wrote an article about STARRS and interviewed STARRS LTG Rod Bishop: A group of...
Defense Department ‘Drastically Shifted Off Course’
America is facing “the most serious and alarming recruiting and retention crisis that we’ve seen since Vietnam,” Rep. Mike...
Senator blasts DOD woke agenda at military bases
(Press Release) U.S. Senator Steve Daines issued the following statement about the 2021 “Drag Story Time” hosted at...
Pentagon disbands DEI unit after chief accused of ‘racism’ against Whites, injects agenda deeper into agency
The Pentagon’s education wing for the children of military members – the Department of Defense Education Activity –...
Report of the National Independent Panel on Military Service and Readiness
STARRS Chairman of the Board LTG Rod Bishop, USAF ret, is a member of the National Independent Panel on Military Service...
U.S. Military Isn’t Venue for Social Experiments and Political Correctness
(Press Release) Subcommittee on National Security, the Border, and Foreign Affairs Chairman Glenn Grothman (R-Wis.) opened a...
If we cannot defend our nation rhetorically, we will be unable to do so kinetically
By Dr. Meaghan Mobbs, USMA 2008 Former Army Captain Bio My name is Dr. Meaghan Mobbs, and I am the daughter of two former...
Take Politics Out of the Military
By Jeremy Hunt, USMA, 2015 Former Captain, US Army Watch the latest video at foxnews.com US military has ‘serious...
Public Perceptions of the Politicization of the Military is Impacting Readiness Today
By Brent D. Sadler, USNA ’94 Captain, US Navy, ret Bio Bottom Line Up Front: Too many Americans believe the military...
Vets Blame Biden’s Focus on Woke Priorities for Low Military Recruitment Numbers
America is facing a “once in a generation military recruitment crisis” due to the Pentagon’s focus on woke...
Top Military Officials Questioned over Drag Shows on Military Bases
The military’s top uniformed officer suggested Wednesday he does not support drag shows being hosted on military...
General Mark Milley Commits to End Drag Queen Story Hour on Military Bases
(Press Release) During Wednesday’s House Armed Services Committee (HASC) hearing on the “FY24 Defense Budget Request,”...
Woke activists are hollowing out our military
U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio blasted the Pentagon’s increasingly leftward bent as it struggles to keep up with national security...
As Pentagon struggles to fill military requests, funding goes to diversity, Critical Race Theory
The Pentagon is increasingly struggling to fill the weapons and equipment requests for the war in Ukraine. At the same time...
Americans Have Stopped Trusting the Pentagon With Their Lives
By COL Kurt Schlichter, US Army, ret Right now, many of us vets are looking back on our years of service and wondering what...
The Military Should Reject DEI and CRT
By MG Patrick H. Brady, US Army (ret) and Congressman and Col. Michael Waltz, US Army With recruitment rates to the U.S...
Warriors Don’t Want to Fight for a Woke, Anti-American Military
By JB Shurk “Why are recruitment numbers in the toilet? Because hardworking, athletic, intelligent warriors who...
DOD officials: diversity in the military is more important than commonality
At a House Armed Services Committee hearing last week, Rep. Mark Alford (R-MO) asked the question to Undersecretary of...
Rep. Jim Banks: Biden Pentagon Focusing on DEI Instead of Protecting America
House Armed Services Subcommittee for Military Personnel Chair Jim Banks (R-IN) in a recent exclusive interview with...
The Military Depends on Virtues That Are Fading
The U.S. military is facing a recruitment crisis. It is so severe that in September, Senator Thom Thillis referred to an...
The DOD Plays Hardball with Covid Vaccinations
By Scott Sturman, MD, USAFA ’72 STARRS Board of Advisors [STARRS Lt Gen Rod Bishop USA (ret) and MG Joe Arbuckle USA (ret)...
Washington’s Dangerous Unseriousness
Forrest L. Marion, Ph.D. Retired U.S. Air Force officer and military historian “In the U.S. military today, one...