By Lawrence Purdy, USNA ’68 In 2003, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas wrote: The Constitution abhors...
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Some transgender people would be disqualified from military service under new GOP bill
Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., and Rep. Jim Banks, R-Ind., will introduce legislation this week to prohibit transgender people...
Political fights over military make US look weak to China and Russia, experts tell senators
Political bickering over the military makes the United States appear weak to adversaries such as China and Russia and...
Military Services Competing Over the Same Recruiting Pool of Less Than 500,000
The Marine Corps and other service branches are competing to attract the same 412,000 eligible Americans between the ages of...
The Pentagon Mandated COVID Vaccines, But Then Ignored Concerns About Adverse Reactions, Whistleblowers Say
The Department of Defense (DOD) mandated the vaccine for all servicemembers and marketed it as safe, but whistleblowers say...
Air Force Under Secretary Jones, an LGBTQ Trailblazer, Is Stepping Down
The Air Force’s second-highest ranking civilian, Under Secretary Gina Ortiz Jones, is stepping down from her role...
Congressmen press DOD for Answers on Vaccine Mandate Reversal and Damage Done
House Armed Services Committee Chairman Mike Rogers (R-AL) and Subcommittee on Military Personnel Chairman Jim Banks (R-IN)...
House GOP warns Biden’s policy blunders, China’s spying could worsen ‘alarming’ military recruitment crisis
Four House Republicans, all military veterans, are warning that the Biden administration’s handling of incidents like the...
Biden appointee behind unlawful military vaccine mandate to step down
Dr Terry Adirim, the government bureaucrat behind the infamous and unlawful Pentagon vaccine mandate, will “leave her post...
DoD schools diversity chief responds to ‘racism’ claims
The Pentagon official who oversees diversity, equity and inclusion for the Defense Department’s schools is at the center of...
Military Pilots Reported 1,700% More Medical Incidents During the Pandemic
The number of medical events that triggered official reporting requirements among U.S. military pilots rose more than 1,700%...
Four weeks later, military still waiting on post-vaccine guidance
A month after the Defense Department canceled the requirement that service members are vaccinated against COVID-19, the...
Pentagon pressured by GOP to stop forcing troops to pay back bonuses after forced separation
Congressional Republicans are demanding the Pentagon answer for severe recruitment and retention issues caused by several...
Wokeness is weakening the U.S. military
Republican GOP leaders and committee members on Armed Services vowed they’ll look for ways to slash “woke” spending from the...
Congressman Steube introduces The Safeguarding the U.S. Armed Forces and Service Academies Act
U.S. Representative Greg Steube (R-Fla.) introduced The Safeguarding the U.S. Armed Forces and Service Academies Act to...
Pentagon Quietly Expands Woke Transgender Policies in the Military
By Elaine Donnelly President, Center for Military Readiness STARRS Board of Advisors In his State of the Union speech...
Vaccine litigation lingers after lifting of military mandate
Federal appeals court judges closely questioned a Biden administration attorney Monday on the consequences military...
Within Ranks, Trust in Our Military Declines Amid Politicization of National Defense
By Jack Kraemer Service members increasingly are concerned with the growing politicization of the U.S. military, recent...
The establishment is leading the ‘top-down, woke revolution’
Unlike the free-spirit days of the 1960s, when the proverbial revolutionaries on the left were fighting the establishment...
‘Stunning Increase’ In Serious Harm Reports In Young Healthy Pilots: Army Lt. Col. Theresa Long
It’s been a year since four Department of Defense (DOD) whistleblowers found a sudden increase in various diseases in the...
Vaccine Mandate Reenlistment Act
Congressman Brian Mast: Did you know that there are 3,350 soldiers who have refused to let the government stick a needle in...
Rep. Roy, Sen. Rubio fight back against the woke politicization of the U.S. military
Congressman Chip Roy (TX-21) on January 31, 2023 introduced the Restoring Military Focus Act, to push back against the...
House GOP targets military ‘wokeness’
Top House Republicans say the Pentagon’s budget will be on the table as Republicans seek to negotiate spending cuts in...
Americans Demand Freedom from Woke Ideology
By Marco Rubio Many of my neighbors in Miami are immigrants from countries wrecked by socialist regimes. They came to...
China is ‘laughing’ as US culture war erodes combat readiness, says former defense secretary
Former Acting Defense Secretary Chris Miller (former Special Forces commander and Green Beret) said China “must be...
House Armed Services press Pentagon on ‘woke’ school admin who made anti-white comments
A House Armed Services subcommittee is pressing the Pentagon about whether it has taken any action against a Defense...
Pentagon salaries for diversity, equity, inclusion staff capped at $31K under Senate bill
A new bill being pushed by Sen. Tom Cotton and Rep. Jim Banks would cap the salaries of any Pentagon employees working...
Pentagon must ditch ‘woke,’ focus on readiness to deter China from taking Taiwan
The chairman of the House Armed Services Subcommittee on Readiness is warning that it’s only a matter of time...
Congressman Demands Answers On Chinese Communist Party Links To Junior Military Programs At American Schools
Republican Rep. Mike Waltz of Florida asked the Pentagon about the extent of military preparation programs at U.S. private...
Why Woke Has No Place in Military Service
By Thomas Klocek, USNA ’69 The current climate of being “woke” is all about oneself. It is political correctness on...
Poll: Nearly Seven in 10 Active Service Members Have Witnessed Politicization in U.S. Military
(Heritage Foundation) A new survey of active U.S. military members reveals that 68 percent have witnessed some or a...
Military Must Recruit More Women, Immigrants for the Future Force
Two articles about a recent symposium on the Future of the All-Volunteer, All-Recruited Force held at the Naval War College...
Status Of Military Vax Mandate -USAF 1LT John Bowes, Atty Dale Saran
Information Operations host L Todd Wood speaks with those at the tip of the spear of the fight against medical tyranny in...
‘Kick in the face’: Service members forced to pay back signing bonuses after being fired over COVID vax
U.S. service members who were fired for refusing to comply with the Pentagon’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate are now being...
Senators push to reinstate service members fired over Covid vaccine
A statement of support from STARRS LTG Rod Bishop for the Americans Act was included in this Senator Cruz press release:...
DoDEA sources speak out about woke ‘Marxist’ indoctrination
The Department of Defense Education Activity has been plunging into woke ideology which includes hypersexual and woke...
Ted Cruz to reintroduce bill reinstating military members fired over vax mandates: ‘We will keep fighting’
Texas Republican Senator Ted Cruz is reintroducing his bill to reinstate military service members who were fired over...
Healing The Force – Are Military Vax Injured?
Information Operations host L Todd Wood speaks with Dr. Scott Sturman (AFA ’72), a member of STARRS Board of Advisors...
Weapon of self-destruction: Biden’s obsessive hunt for extremism in the military
By Robert Wilkie Former Secretary of Veterans Affairs and as the undersecretary of defense for personnel and readiness...
Congressman introduces bill to reinstate unvaccinated troops
Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX) unveiled a bill on Friday that would reinstate troops booted from the military for refusing the...
How Today’s “Diversity” Damages our Military
By Brig. General Chris Petty, USA, ret Member, STARRS Board of Directors Diversity sounds great. That’s part of the problem...
CMR Challenges New Congress to End Woke-ism in the Military
By Elaine Donnelly President of the Center for Military Readiness (CMR) Member of the STARRS Board of Advisors The armed...
Pentagon: No Back Pay to Troops Discharged for Refusing COVID-19 Vaccine
The Pentagon on Tuesday shut down speculation it’s considering back pay for service members it discharged for refusing to...
‘Wokeness,’ politicization of the military ‘alarming,’ warns Rep. Michael Waltz
STARRS LTG Rod Bishop is a member of the Heritage Foundation’s National Independent Panel on Military Service and...
Pentagon mulls back pay for troops kicked out over Covid vaccine mandate
The Pentagon is considering providing back pay to former service members who were discharged for refusing to get the Covid...
68 Percent of Active Duty Military Believe Pentagon Is Politicized
The vast majority of U.S. active duty military members believe the Pentagon has become politicized, according to data...
Thoughts on The (Un)Naming Commission
By Forrest L. Marion, PhD, retired US Air Force officer and military historian The congressionally mandated Naming...
Pentagon Officially Overturns Military Vaccine Mandate
The Department of Defense (DOD) officially scrapped the requirement that all members of the armed forces be fully vaccinated...
Former Green Beret warns of extreme narrative pushed into the military and US institutions
Former Green Beret Ivan Raiklin argued on a recent episode of “Tucker Carlson Today” on Fox Nation that the...
CMR Challenge for 2023: Woke-ism in Our Military
The Center For Military Readiness (CMR) issued their 2023 challenges to Congress. Elaine Donnelly is the president and...