By Michela Burrow, The Daily Caller News Foundation Defense legislation approved by a key Senate committee Thursday seeks to...
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‘Re-Name, Relocate, Deny’: Here’s Why The GOP Faces An Uphill Battle In Purging ‘Wokeism’ From The Military
By Micaela Burrow The Daily Caller Foundation House Republicans’ planted provisions aimed at stripping funding for racist...
House GOP moves to slash Pentagon DEI bureaucrats: ‘Massive victory for the Anti-Woke Caucus’
A House Republican amendment in the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) slashes the federal diversity, equity and...
Beyond ‘wokeness’: Recovering the military’s warrior ethos
By Kevin Roberts President, Heritage Foundation As Biden officials pay tribute to the pride flag this month, they might as...
Ideological warfare: Woke culture is poisoning the military
By Bodi Williams, former Navy surface warfare officer There is no other way to put it: We are at war right now. Our...
Rekindling the warrior spirit: Why embracing traditional masculine virtues is vital for the US military
By Dr. Meaghan Mobbs West Point 2008 graduate and former US Army officer In a rapidly changing world, our national security...
What about the other 80 percent?
By Janine Guidry, TRMLX.com The military is looking at another year of missed goals when it comes to recruitment, and they...
Too woke to wage war
By Jim Nelles, former Naval officer The world is seeing tensions rise between major global powers, reaching levels not seen...
Why we need to promote innovative military leaders
By James Rogan, former U.S. foreign service officer The United States must have general officers and admirals who are...
STARRS Open Letter to Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman
The bottom line up front:-our experience over the last 3 years tells us that the great majority of Americans we have...
House Committee Advances Amendment Restoring Meritocracy To Military Personnel Decisions
Republicans on the House Armed Services Committee added an amendment to a 2024 defense spending package on Wednesday that...
Defense Secretary Austin Needs To Obey Orders And End The Military Vaccine Mandate
By M. Oakland, attorney On Aug. 14, 2021, Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin, after months of build-up, mandated that all...
Why Is Ridiculous Woke Ideology Being Accepted By America’s Military?
According to the Atlantic, in “2018 three scholars—James Lindsay, Helen Pluckrose, and Peter Boghossian—wrote 20 fake papers...
Where are the generals and admirals willing to defend the military from wokeness?
By Dr. Scott Sturman, MD US Air Force Academy ’72 If the United States military had to undergo a comprehensive, annual...
Pentagon Paying the Price For Going ‘Woke’
The directive came from the top: A memo from the U.S. secretary of defense ordering Pentagon leaders and the commanders of...
The US needs warriors, not ‘woke’ commissars
By James Rogan, former US Foreign Service Officer Members of the military are a brotherhood, bands of brothers and sisters...
Leftist obsession with diversity has conquered the US military
By Forrest Marion, PhD, retired USAF officer and military historian As 1919 began, the victors of World War I gathered in...
Republicans take aim at Biden Pentagon policies on diversity, climate, vaccines
Pentagon personnel policies took center stage early on Wednesday in the House Armed Services Committee’s deliberations over...
Protections for Troops Booted over COVID Vaccine Mandate Added to House Defense Bill
House Republicans moved Wednesday to protect former service members who were discharged over the military’s now...
Woke ideology is at odds with the oath military service members swear
By John Cauthen, USNA ’02, former Naval officer Every commissioned officer and enlisted member of the armed forces swears an...
Defense Department’s DEI strategic plan damages military cohesion
By Garret Exner, former USMC Officer U.S. Marine Corps recruit training, often referred to as “boot camp,” turns civilians...
The Left’s civic religion is a threat to national security
By Senator Marco Rubio This year’s Pride month reveals more clearly than ever how “wokeness ” undermines...
There’s no such thing as social justice in a foxhole
By Peter Laffin The military can and should only be judged by its ability to carry out its primary function, which is to...
In the military, going woke can be deadly
By Mark Judge It’s amazing, or maybe not, that the media does not get the correlation. There is currently a debate about...
Biden administration is using the military to push a radical abortion agenda
By Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks (24-year Army veteran) and Marilyn Musgrave Democrats once supported the “safe, legal, and...
Lowered standards and disregarded data have weakened the US military
By Dr. Meaghan Mobbs West Point 2008 graduate and former US Army officer Member, VMI Board of Visitors The primary role of...
How DEI infiltrated the military
By Dr Scott Sturman, MD, USAFA ‘72 STARRS Board of Advisors How is it possible that in a matter of a few years, the...
Military Members Kicked Out for Refusing COVID Vaccine Seek to Have Their Discharges Upgraded
By J. M. Phelps Service members who received general discharges when separated from the military for their refusal to obey...
Our Next President Must Fix Our Military First
By COL Kurt Schlichter, US Army, ret The federal bureaucracy is a smoldering smorgasbord of corruption, incompetence, and...
DOD anti-extremism efforts draw scrutiny in NDAA amendments
Provisions to defund the Pentagon’s anti-extremism efforts are on tap for potential inclusion in the fiscal 2024...
Senator Wicker to introduce Merit Act as NDAA Amendment
(Press Release) U.S. Senator Roger Wicker, R-Miss., ranking member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, today announced...
Honest appraisal by DOD of disastrous Afghanistan withdrawal has not occurred
(House Armed Services Committee Press Release) U.S. Representative Mike Rogers (R-AL), Chairman of the House Armed Services...
Biden’s Defense Department Chooses Social Justice Over National Security
U.S. Senator Tommy Tuberville and Republican Study Committee (RSC) Chairman U.S. Representative Kevin Hern authored the...
No Abortions, Pride Flags or Transgender Care: Republicans Use Spending Bill to Block VA Policies
Sounds like a dream House Republicans moved Tuesday to block the Department of Veterans Affairs from providing abortion...
BOOK REVIEW: Defending the Constitution Behind Enemy Lines
By Capt. Brent Ramsey, USN ret Dear Shipmates, Friends, and Colleagues, “Now Hear This!” is very familiar to all...
Promoting Merit over Quotas at the Pentagon
By US Senator Roger Wicker Retired Air Force Reserves Lt. Colonel Member of the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy Congressional...
BEE: Pentagon Struggling To Explain All 437 Earth Genders To Aliens
Maybe the aliens should just skip Earth right now, come back later when things are more sane. WASHINGTON, D.C. —...
Are the Military Services Prepared for Race-Neutral Admissions?
By Major Geoffrey Irving, U.S. Marine Corps Reserve The armed forces should be prepared for the end of affirmative action if...
Pride flags at VA campuses irk Republican lawmakers
Republican lawmakers are demanding that Veterans Affairs leaders stop allowing LGBT Pride flags to be flown at department...
Viewpoint Diversity, Illiberalism, and Intolerance within the Dept. of Veterans Affairs
By Dr. Edward Waldrep, US Army veteran of the War in Iraq Clinical Psychologist for the Department of Veteran Affairs The...
Pentagon officials defend diversity and inclusion at Pride Month event
Uniformed and civilian Defense Department officials defended LGBTQ+ service members and diversity and inclusion efforts on...
LGBTQ+ Pride Flags at VA Facilities in Mississippi Draw GOP Criticism, Protests
All the Republicans in Mississippi’s congressional delegation are demanding that the Veterans Administration remove an...
Sen. Wicker introduces bill to protect merit-based military; counter CRT
(Press Release) U.S. Senator Roger Wicker, R-Miss., ranking member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, today introduced...
‘Extremism’ in US Military: Stand-Down Was a Solution in Search of a Problem
By Lt Gen Thomas Spoehr, USA (ret) Based on reports that more than 80 of the 700 defendants charged in the aftermath of the...
Milley says canceling drag show on military base was ‘absolute right thing to do’
Gen. Mark Milley, the nation’s highest ranking military officer, defended the Pentagon’s decision to cancel a drag show on a...
Diversity, Equity, Inclusion Is Destroying Our Military From Within
STARRS Chairman LtGen Rod Bishop (USAF ret) and Vice Chairman MajGen Joe Arbuckle (USA, ret) were on the Rob Maness Show...
Poll: Voters Don’t Want Military Inserting Itself into Social Issues
Americans strongly believe the U.S. military should focus on defending America and avoid inserting itself into politicized...
House Democrats Defend Teaching Critical Race Theory in the Military
More evidence of the Great Split in reality. Democrats have been blindly taken in by a Marxist reality where 2+2=5. By...
Better Late Than Never
Bill Whittle presents good news on Memorial Day that he said is long overdue: “160 retired Flag Officers serving in...
Congressman demands list of Pride Month events sponsored by military
Rep. Chip Roy, R-Texas, is investigating how the Defense Department (DoD) will spend taxpayer dollars to promote diversity...