Republican GOP leaders and committee members on Armed Services vowed they’ll look for ways to slash “woke” spending from the...
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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...
Pentagon Scrambles to Prep New COVID Rules as Vaccine Mandate Nears End
(Defense One) Pentagon leaders, who must scrap their COVID-vaccine mandate within three weeks, are trying to figure out what...
Lowering Recruitment Standards in the Military
Recruitment is down throughout all the services, in a large part because of the increasing Marxist/Woke ideology invading...
A Government Woke and Broken
“Today, the Soldier approached his commanding officer to discuss his newly confirmed pregnancy.” The above sentence might...
House Republicans attack Defense Department for ‘woke’ social policies
House Republicans plan to open a new front in the culture wars: attacking the Pentagon for its “woke” social...
These Are The Top 7 Times The Military Went Woke In 2022
By Micaela Burrow, Daily Caller News Foundation The Department of Defense (DOD) doubled down on “woke” initiatives in 2022...
The National Defense Authorization Act’s Vaccine Mandate a Good Step in the Right Direction
Despite public opposition to terminating the covid vaccine mandate for service members, the President signed it into law in...
The U.S. Government’s Woke Training
BY WSJ Editorial Board Read instructions from the Army, NASA, the VA, and more, obtained via open-records law. The...
Justice demands correction of military records for vaccine refusers
By Sgt. James D. Muhammad, a Marine Corps veteran, and Col. Thomas L. Rempfer, an Air Force retiree Over the past year...
What Biden’s woke military has wrought
By Senator Tom Cotton (former Captain, US Army) and Representative Ashley Hinson The U.S. military should be the ultimate...
China doubles its weapons while DOD spends 6 million hours on extremism, diversity, climate change
“For to win one hundred victories in one hundred battles is not the acme of skills. To subdue the enemy without...
New law ends COVID-19 vaccine mandate for US troops
U.S. military forces around the world will no longer be required to get the COVID-19 vaccine, after the mandate was lifted...
Federal Fealty to Wokeness Weakens American Power
(Heritage Foundation) The Biden administration has imposed an unprecedented dogma on federal employees, from Delta Force to...
Military readiness ‘fragile’ despite vax mandate rollback, back pay and reinstatement must follow
Various news articles regarding the NDAA bill repealing the vax mandate for the military: Military readiness ‘fragile’...