By Mark W. Castillon, US Army National Guard veteran The American military rests on a sacred covenant: service demands...
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Secretary of War’s Speech is a Game-Changer
By Major Donald E. Vandergriff, USA ret | From his Substack As a lifelong advocate for military reform, I have spent decades...
Hegseth Is Right — We Need To Rethink Women’s Role In The Military
By Jennifer S. Bryson | The Federalist Secretary of War Pete Hegseth announced last week that he will shut down the Defense...
What Military Accountability for COVID Looks Like
By Major Chase Spears, PhD, USA ret Roughly a year before President Trump was inaugurated for the second time, I joined a...
Hegseth To Top Military Brass: No More Dudes In Dresses
By Ben Shapiro | The Daily Wire The Secretary of War and the President of the United States spoke before hundreds of top U.S...
It Turns Out The Military’s Biden-Era Recruitment Crisis Was A Leadership Problem After All
By Shawn Fleetwood | The Federalist America’s propaganda press have wound up with egg on their faces a few many times over...
How the U.S. military went woke: DEI offices, women in combat and drag shows
By Susan Ferrechio | The Washington Times Plug-in tanks, drag shows and physically unfit leaders promoted to boost diversity...
Terrorist Attack by Military Veteran Highlights Need to Address #RevolutionariesintheRanks
By Major Chase Spears, PhD, USA ret Since the assassination of Charlie Kirk, I’ve been tracking a disturbing trend: military...
What Military-Related People Are Saying About Hegseth’s Speech
SO many Americans who were thrilled with Secretary of War’s speech, but we collected comments from military-related...
FROM WOKE TO WAR: Pete Hegseth’s Vision Sets a Clear Path for a Muscular and Effective Military
By Tyler O’Neil | The Daily Signal I’ve witnessed many moments of “America is back” catharsis this year, but few...
Decorated Veteran Says Generals, Admirals Who Can’t Back Hegseth Should ‘Get The Hell Out’
By Harold Hutchinson | The Daily Caller News Foundation Former Marine Joey Jones praised Secretary of War Pete Hegseth’s...
Finding Marxist Revolutionaries in the Ranks
By Col. Rob Maness, USAF ret STARRS Board of Advisors We’ve been warning America for years about Marxist infiltration of...
They don’t want Hegseth out at DOD because he’s failing, but because he’s succeeding.
Charlie Kirk posted this social media on April 21, 2025: “They don’t want Hegseth out at DOD because he’s...
DOW MEMO: Adverse Information Policy
While the Department of War remains firmly committed to upholding the highest standards of integrity and exemplary conduct...
DOW MEMO: Requirement to Formally Present Purple Heart Medals and Valor Decorations
Effective immediately, all Purple Heart medals and valor decorations will be formally presented to the recipient, or their...
DOW MEMO: Policy Memorandum Revision re “Special Selection Review Boards
The Military Departments have developed comprehensive, multi-layered promotion review procedures that match or exceed the...
DOW MEMO: IG Oversight and Reform: Enhancing Timeliness, Transparency, and Due Process in Administrative Investigations
The Department of War is committed to restoring timeliness, predictability, and transparency in administrative...
DOW MEMO: Modern Workforce Management
My priority as Secretary of War is restoring the warrior ethos. This applies to every member of the Department, including...
DOW MEMO: Department of War Military Education and Training Standards 60-Day Review
To prepare for large scale combat operations in a rapidly changing global landscape, the Department of War requires a...
DOW MEMO: Review of Hazing, Bullying, and Harassment Definitions
Department policy defining conduct by Service members that constitutes hazing, bullying, and harassment is overly broad...
DOW MEMO: Reduction of Mandatory Training Requirements to Restore Mission Focus
The Department of War is committed to enabling our warfighters to focus on their core mission of fighting and winning our...
DOW MEMOS: Unfit, Undertrained Troops No Longer Tolerated
(Pentagon/DOD News) Physical fitness and combat training standards will be raised, said Secretary of War Pete Hegseth, who...
DOW MEMO: Hegseth Says Promotions, Retention to be Based on Meritocracy, Not Quotas
(Pentagon/DOD News) The War Department will focus on lethality and merit, not on political correctness and diversity, said...
Trump: Military Will Protect Nation With Focus on Merit, Reawakened Warrior Spirit
(Pentagon/DOD News) The U.S. military, said President Donald J. Trump, is strong again, with a focus on merit and a warrior...
TRANSCRIPT: Secretary of War Pete Hegseth Addresses General and Flag Officers at Quantico, Virginia
(Pentagon) SECRETARY OF WAR PETE HEGSETH: Mr. Chairman, the joint chiefs, generals, admirals, commanders, officers, senior...
Hegseth Announces War Department Reforms in Sweeping Speech to Top Military Brass
(Pentagon/DOD News) Secretary of War Pete Hegseth today announced a series of new directives aimed at strengthening the War...
Secretary Hegseth Eliminates One of the Root Causes of ‘Woke’ in the Armed Forces
By streiff (Army veteran) | RedState Secretary of War Pete Hegseth has disbanded a 75-year-old Defense Advisory Committee...
The Army’s 2024 Extremism Policy Can Be Used Today
By Major Chase Spears, PhD, USA ret Poetic justice is defined by Merriam-Webster’s as “an outcome in which vice is punished...
So What Is This ‘Come to Pete’ Meeting, Exactly?
By retired Army Colonel Cynical Publius ( @CynicalPublius) Some really big news in the American military community broke...
SHOCKING: Servicemen Celebrate Charlie Kirk’s Murder
Retired Army Major Dr. Chase Spears confronts the shocking aftermath of Charlie Kirk’s assassination, diving into a...
Will Congress Fully Support Actions to End Wokeism in the Military?
By Elaine Donnelly President, Center for Military Readiness CMR Chart Compares Interim Progress on NDAA for 2026 ...
Hegseth Scraps Department of War Committee Promoting Radical Feminism in the Military
By Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell and Bradley Devlin | The Daily Signal The Department of War is discontinuing a committee...
I Was Wrong, There IS an Extremism Epidemic in the U.S. Military
By Major Chase Spears, USA ret One of the hard realities of life is making mistakes, of believing things in youth, naivety...
Army Major: “Why we in the military act so harshly when people celebrate the deaths of innocent Americans”
By @InfantryDort, active duty Army Major on X My fellow Americans. Listen to me. I’ll explain it in a different way...
At War Department, Shaving Waivers Out, Clean-Shaven Faces In
(Pentagon) Secretary of War Pete Hegseth signed a memorandum in August directing the military services to stringently...
SecAF Memo re Social Media Conduct
Secretary of the Air Force Troy Meink issued this memo regarding conduct by Airmen and Guardians on social media: Airmen and...
At least 8 troops punished for social media comments about Charlie Kirk’s death
By Jeff Schogol, Matt White | Task & Purpose In the wake of Charlie Kirk’s death, at least eight service members have...
Secretary of War Praises K-12 Grade Civics Organization on Constitution Day
(Pentagon) Secretary of War Pete Hegseth today offered praise to a national organization that teaches civics to school...
Future of America’s service academies
STARRS Board of Advisors member Brigadier General Christopher S. “Mookie” Walker, USAF ret, USAFA ’88, was interviewed...
STARRS Town Hall with Guest Speaker Rick Addante: DEI is NOT Dead at the Department of War
At a STARRS Town Hall held on 18 September 2025, Dr. Rick Adante, a former tenured professor, reveals how universities...
Gather Information Regarding Negative Incidents Linked to the COVID-19 Shot, Say Army Flight Surgeon and Former Navy Medical Officer
By J. M. Phelps | Gateway Pundit Service members are urged to report any adverse health events that occurred after the...
Get ROTC Programs Out of Blue States, Cities, and Colleges
By Will Thibeau, Army Ranger veteran When I served as an Army Reserve Officers’ Training Corps (ROTC) cadet at Fordham...
Army updates standards for appearance, grooming, uniform wear in new directive
(US Army) The U.S. Army announced an update to its appearance, grooming, and uniform wear standards policy in a new...
Statement by Chief Pentagon Spokesman Sean Parnell, on Grooming Standards for Facial Hair Outlined in the Rapid Force-Wide Review of Military Standards
(Pentagon) After a rapid force-wide review of military standards, Secretary of War Pete Hegseth recently directed the...
In reversal, Pentagon keeps women’s advisory group, adds four more
By Hope Hodge Seck | Military Times A 75-year-old commission advocating for women in the armed services will be revived as...
Army Suspends Reserves Officer Cheering Charlie Kirk’s Death, Threatening Trump Admin
By Wallace White | The Daily Caller News Foundation The Army suspended and is investigating a reserve officer who cheered on...
Pete Hegseth Needs to Settle All the Family’s Business
By Col. Kurt Schlichter, US Army, ret There’s this great scene in The Godfather – wait, I need to be more specific – where...
Hegseth to Address Service Members’ Charlie Kirk Hate Posts ‘Immediately’
By Olivia Rondeau | Breitbart News Department of War (DOW) Secretary Pete Hegseth has denounced the military service members...
The US Military Has an Extremism Problem and Charlie Kirk’s Murder Put It Under the Spotlight
By streiff | RedState When former Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin galumphed into office in 2021, one of his first...
Leftist Military Members Justify Charlie Kirk’s Assassination: ‘FAFO’
By Olivia Rondeau | Breitbart News Left-wing military service members are publishing their disgusting reactions to Charlie...