By Michael Nevradakis, Ph.D. | CHD The U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) is launching two task forces to review the...
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Military Recruitment Is Surging: A Multifaceted Turnaround
By Sarah Holliday | Washington Stand “Just two years ago,” read a statement from the Department of War, “the outlook for...
Trump EO reinstates GI Bill benefits to Veterans discharged for refusing COVID vaccine
(VA Press Release) The Department of Veterans Affairs today announced that potentially thousands of Veterans who were...
“Win Our Wars”
By Francis Sempa A front-page story in the Washington Times by Ben Wolfgang is headlined “Top Officers Lose Trust in Hegseth...
The Pentagon’s DEI Generals Finally Faced Consequences
By Will Thibeau Army Ranger Veteran When President Trump dismissed several high-ranking military officers earlier this year...
Matt Lohmeier interviewed by Jack Posobiec, Veterans Day 2025
Former STARRS Executive Vice President Matthew Lohmeier, now the Under Secretary of the Air Force, was interviewed by Human...
Why Are Our Colleges Deserting Military History?
By Kali Jerrard | National Association of Scholars In honor of Veterans Day, we at the National Association of Scholars...
Did the Military Violate Trump’s DEI Executive Order?
By Tyler O’Neil | The Daily Signal The U.S. Army, Air Force, and Marine Corps appear on a list of sponsors for a...
On Veterans Day, Honor Sacrifice by Restoring the Military’s Warrior Ethos
By Doug Truax, USMA ’92 On Veterans Day, we pause from our busy lives to salute the courage of those who fought in the...
Do Women Belong in Combat?
Michelle Thibeau, USMA ’14, served in the U.S. Army Special Operations Command in Afghanistan. As a woman and a...
Pentagon policy change lets commanders override decisions on transgender troops’ status
By Jessica Botelho | The National News Desk A new Pentagon policy just made it harder for transgender troops to challenge...
Lt Gen Rod Bishop on Charlie Kirk Assassination, DEI in Military & Vaccine Mandate Fallout
Join Wayne Laugesen on Wayne’s Word Podcast for an explosive interview with retired Lt. Gen. Rod Bishop Jr.—a 34-year...
Insubordinate Officers Publicly Attack The Secretary Of War
By John Lucas, USMA ’69 Army Ranger and Special Forces Green Beret Served with the 1st Calvary Division in Vietnam Trump...
The Great Military Feminization
By Cynical Publius (on X @CynicalPublius), ret US Army Colonel If you are someone who is at all interested in modern...
Don’t Fall for It: Marine Colonel’s Resignation Letter Was a Move of PR Over Principle
By Major Chase Spears, PhD, USA ret There’s a respected tradition of men who stand publicly in their own name and resign in...
Depriving Servicemembers of Spiritual Fortification
By Col. William Connor, USA ret The Citadel, ’90 Member STARRS Board of Advisors Despite the repudiation of cultural Marxism...
He Was Pardoned by the President After Standing Up for Liberty
Join host Major Chase Spears, PhD, US Army ret, on the Finding Your Spine podcast as he welcomes Mark Bashaw, a former...
Hegseth won’t meet troops with beards during South Korea trip
By Jeff School | Task & Purpose When Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth visits South Korea this week, he will face off...
Hegseth Tells Troops In Japan ‘Our Strength Is Not Our Diversity—Our Strength Is Our Common Purpose’
Secretary of War Pete Hegseth speaks to service-members at Yokosuka Air Base in Japan. “. . . Now, for too long, in a...
‘Crucial Victory’: Appeals Court Revives Challenge to Military COVID Vaccine Mandates
By Michael Nevradakis, Ph.D. | CHD A federal appeals court reinstated a religious discrimination lawsuit challenging the...
Ignoring Accountability for the COVID-19 Shot Leads to Diminished Trust in the Military Under the Leadership of War Secretary Hegseth
By J.M. Phelps | Gateway Pundit While the Department of War highlights an increase in military recruits under the current...
Fat Loser Generals Can Get Bent
By Col. Kurt Schlichter, US Army ret I was one of those many, many retired officers who thought it was great when Pete...
A General Dilemma the War Department Must Remedy
By Major Chase Spears, PhD, USA ret In the classic movie, White Christmas, we hear a question presented in song about what...
Restoring America’s Warfighting Ethos: Too Many Ribbons… Clean Up America’s Military Awards Program
By James E. Fanell, retired Naval officer | American Greatness As America faces the very real threat of an armed conflict...
Biden judge orders return of ‘woke’ books to military school libraries
By Chris Donaldson, Navy veteran | BizPac Review Secretary of War Pete Hegseth’s mission to restore a “warrior ethos” to the...
Hegseth brings tough brand to military
By Thomas Kirkpatrick Sr., Army veteran As a former artillery officer who served in Vietnam, I consider Secretary of War...
Experimental COVID-19 Shots: The Need for Congressional Action on War Department Inaction
By J.M. Phelps | Gateway Pundit Four years later, there has still been no action for accountability for those who...
Saving the Military’s Soul: It Can Be Done If Leaders Choose
By Major Chase Spears, PhD, US Army ret What is the soul of an institution worth? Now I know that organizations don’t have...
War is a Young Man’s Game
By Brig. General Bob Krumm, USA ret Secretary of War Pete Hegseth’s address to the nation’s generals and admirals last week...
Trojan Horses in the Fields of Education and Psychology Undermine War Secretary Hegseth’s Objective to Remove ‘Toxic Ideological Garbage’
STARRS Board of Advisors member Rick Addante, PhD, was interviewed for this article: By J.M. Phelps | The Gateway Pundit...
Broken Windows at the Pentagon
By R. Jordan Prescott On September 10, 2001, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld delivered a speech identifying the...
Retired Army E-9: “We entered the room on the same team and in the same uniform and came out divided.”
Letter to the Editor by Army veteran Bob Brostoski Dear editor: My letter is in regards to the column by Gail Symons titled...
300 Investigations Opened Since Pete Hegseth Cracked Down on Celebrations of Charlie Kirk’s Death
By Hannah Knudsen | Breitbart News There are reportedly 300 Defense Department investigations that have been opened as a...
DOD to narrow definitions of bullying, hazing, shorten timelines for investigations
STARRS President was interviewed for this article: By Mary Shinn | Denver Gazette As the Department of Defense implements...
The military’s mission is to win wars, not woke dogma
Op-ed by Rep. Kevin McCabe in Anchorage Daily News Rep. Andrew Gray’s recent opinion piece on Secretary of Defense Pete...
Pentagon orders ‘white glove’ treatment for those returning to military service after Covid-19 vaccine refusal
By Haley Britzky | CNN Former troops kicked out of military service for refusing to get the Covid-19 vaccine will receive...
What we want are warriors
By Col. Mackubin Owens, PhD, USMC ret and former Naval War College professor The unusual all-hands meeting of flag and...
Why use 1990 warfighting capabilities as an end-state
By Lt General Marvin L. Covault, US Army, retired On 30 September, Secretary Hegseth addressed, in person, about 800...
The Department of War Is Back — And About Time
By Army veteran David T. Cloft I entered the Army in July of 1993, before President Clinton’s “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell”...
Hegseth changing military mindset
By Sloan Oliver, retired Army officer Weekly Column Reporter, Monroe County Reporter During my military career, I was in...
The U.S. military is no place for “woke” policies to exist
By James H. “Smokey” Shott Daily Telegraph columnist The U.S. military services have a very specific, narrow and critical...
That Hegseth Speech Was Actually Pretty Good
By Christopher Caldwell | New York Times NYT Contributing Opinion writer When Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth summoned...
Pete Hegseth’s demand that troops be fit — not fat — is essential to US military readiness
By Rich Lowry Doesn’t Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth realize that push-ups are passé? His speech to an audience of generals...
Updates on C19 Vax Reinstatements
Some background from X on what’s been happening regarding reinstatements back to the military. From STARRS General...
Restoring America’s Security – with General Joe Arbuckle on The Truth & Liberty Show
STARRS Vice Chairman Maj. General Joe Arbuckle, USA ret, who also is with FlagOfficers4America, was recently interviewed on...
Responding to Secretary Hegseth’s Speech to Senior Military Leaders
By Larry Purdy, USNA ’68 To listen to some of the critics of Secretary of War Pete Hegseth’s September 30, 2025...
Message from the Chairman of the Board: SECWAR’s Address to His Generals and Admirals — “STARRS on Steroids”
By Lt. General Rod Bishop, USAF ret, USAFA ’74 STARRS Chairman of the Board “What a great day for STARRS! ...
Lt Gen Rod Bishop on Secretary of War’s GOFO Speech
STARRS Chairman Lt. General Rod Bishop, USAF ret, was a guest on Frank Gaffney’s Securing America show discussing...
Upcoming Memo Will Further ‘Incentivize and Encourage Service Members to Come Back’ After Years of Retaliation and Reprisal: Pentagon Senior Advisor Stuart Scheller
By J.M. Phelps | Gateway Pundit A Pentagon official recognizes that doing the right thing can be hard, but what he wants...
The Failure of Military Correction Boards
By Mark W. Castillon, US Army National Guard veteran The American military rests on a sacred covenant: service demands...