By John Hughes, MD, USMA ’96 ‘Toxic Loyalty’: “Blind loyalty to bad leaders and protected employees irrationally serves the...
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Gen (Ret) Lloyd Austin’s Troubling Legacy of DEI, Covid, Losing Wars and War Profiteering
By John Hughes, MD, USMA ’96 GEN (Retired) Lloyd Austin will be replaced as SECDEF once the new administration’s pick...
Investigation: Are There Really 15K Trans Military Members?
By Mary Margaret Olohan | Daily Wire When the London Times published a late November report claiming that Donald Trump plans...
How Trump Can Restore Integrity And Lethality To America’s Declining Military
By Shawn Fleetwood | The Federalist It’s safe to say that America has suffered greatly under the Biden-Harris...
DEI is like a woke IED for the left’s war against our military. We must defuse it.
By Col Grant Newsham, USMC ret A war is being waged against American society. The goal? To disrupt it, break it down and...
Lohmeier and Gray: Fighting for a Military That Has Found Itself Bursting with Marxist Ideology and Sitting at a Dangerous Juncture
By J. M. Phelps | Gateway Pundit On Jan. 20, 2025, President-elect Donald Trump will inherit a U.S. military plagued with...
The Military’s ‘Alpha’ Personalities like Pete Hegseth are What Makes It Effective
By Col. Laurie Buckholt, US Army, ret Throughout my 26 years in the U.S. Army and a year in combat, never once did I ask any...
The Bolduc Brief: The Crisis in Military Leadership – A Call for Reform in the US Armed Forces
By BG Don Bolduc, US Army ret The United States military has long been regarded as one of the most formidable fighting...
West Point Graduates: We Endorse Pete Hegseth for Secretary of Defense
(Posted on American Military News) As graduates of the United States Military Academy at West Point, we are guided by the...
Feds Look To Hire Up To 1,200 New DEI Bureaucrats Before Trump Takes Office
Their research found many of the jobs were in DOD, Air Force, Navy, etc By Luke Rosiak | The Daily Wire The federal...
Interview with MGen Joe Arbuckle on the Flag Officers 4 America letter to support Hegseth for SECDEF
On Securing America TV, host Frank Gaffney interviews retired Army Major General Joe Arbuckle, who led an effort with Flag...
DEI contractors will be first fired at Pentagon
By Paul Bedard | Washington Examiner The incoming Trump administration already has plans to kill President Joe Biden’s...
House Moves To Block Taxpayer-Funded Trans Surgeries For Military Dependents
By Mary Margaret Olohan | Daily Wire The House of Representatives is moving to intervene in a case centered on the use of...
Biden Admin Dumped Hundreds Of Thousands Into Ensuring Military Parents Affirm Their Child’s Gender Identity
By Katelynn Richardson | The Daily Caller News Foundation The Biden-Harris administration awarded a federal grant to...
Politico Horrified Defense Nominee Hegseth Might Make Military Schools ‘Patriotic’
By Logan Washburn | The Federalist Pete Hegseth, incoming President Donald Trump’s pick for defense secretary, will revamp...
The Military Is Not Inclusive, It Is Exclusive
By Capt. Hung Cao, USN ret, USNA ’96 It is estimated that fewer than 23% of Americans between 17 and 22 are qualified...
The Full Spectrum of 5th Gen War
On this episode of Survival Dispatch, special guests General Paul Vallely and Captain Matthew Newgent of the MacArthur...
Military may be ground zero for the war on woke
By Casey Harper | The Center Square President-elect Donald Trump’s pick to lead the Department of Defense, though not yet...
Over 120 Retired Flag Officers Endorse Pete Hegseth for Secretary of Defense
Includes 8 retired 4-stars and 2 Medal of Honor recipients. Number of signers is now 137. (Press Release, 16 DEC 24) Over...
How to End Wokism in the Military: Trump White House and Congress Should Work Together to Strengthen Our Military
By Elaine Donnelly, President Center for Military Readiness The outgoing 118th Congress has voted for solid steps in favor...
Women in Combat: Reality wins over DEI, as it must.
By @CynicalPublius on X Retired US Army Colonel I’ve seen some great articles about how Trump’s election is causing a...
Go Big: Fixing Professional Military Education
By John Noonan, USAF veteran Former staffer on defense and armed-service committees in the House and Senate The Wall Street...
New Defense Spending Bill Puts Slew Of Left-Wing Initiatives On Chopping Block
By Wallace White | Daily Caller News Foundation Congress’ latest defense spending bill unveiled Saturday would deal a...
Johnson Wows with Anti-Woke Wins in NDAA Compromise
By Suzanne Bowdey | Washington Stand At 1,813 pages, the latest version of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA)...
Heritage Foundation Letter in Support of Pete Hegseth’s Military Record
Letter for military veterans to sign: (Heritage Foundation) As military veterans and patriotic Americans, we are pleased to...
Military leaders are rattled by a list of ‘woke’ officers that a group urges Hegseth to fire
By TARA COPP Associated Press and LOLITA C. BALDOR | Associated Press Military leaders are rattled by a list of “woke”...
Congressman: “I agree with Pete Hegseth…Woke-ism is destroying the United States military”
(Press Release) On Thursday, Representative Chip Roy (TX-21) delivered remarks on the House floor to urge Republicans to...
What the Trump nominees Have Not Done—And Will Not Do
By Victor Davis Hanson | American Greatness Deflated by the resounding November defeat, the left now believes it can...
Incoming National Security Adviser Michael Waltz: Trump Is ‘Absolutely’ Standing by Pete Hegseth
By Kristina Wong | Breitbart News Incoming National Security Adviser Rep. Mike Waltz (R-FL) said Thursday that President...
‘Get This Woke Garbage Out’: GOP Senators Push Back on Effort to ‘Force’ Women into Service
By Sarah Holiday | Washington Stand Many have argued that the U.S. military has a number of misguided priorities under the...
Senator: “One of my top priorities has been removing divisive DEI policies from our nation’s military”
(Press Release) Senator Schmitt Meets with President Trump’s Nominee for Department of Defense Pete Hegseth Earlier today (...
Senator: “We need a military that is 100% focused on protecting our country and enhancing national security.”
(Press Release) U.S. Senator Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) spoke on the Senate floor about the urgent need to pass the Fiscal Year...
Pete Hegseth Speaks Out, On Media Smears, Responding to Accusations, and How He’d Reform Military
Megyn Kelly interviewed Pete Hegseth, President-Elect Trump’s Secretary of Defense nominee, who has a chance to...
How many transgenders are REALLY in the military?
We’re all being played: By Chris Bray | Substack Former US Army infantryman, Historian PhD Here’s a look at what...
Pete Hegseth Will Make The Pentagon Great Again
By Mark Lucas | The Federalist Lucas served as an infantry officer in the Iowa Army National Guard and was awarded the...
Iowa Sen. Joni Ernst Endorsed Transgender Military Service
By Shawn Fleetwood | The Federalist Sen. Joni Ernst, R-Iowa, previously endorsed allowing trans-identifying individuals to...
Conservative watchdog compiles list of ‘woke ideologues’ in military for Pete Hegseth to purge
By Ryan King | New York Post A conservative watchdog group has compiled a list of “woke ideologues” for Department of...
Diversity Whack-a-Mole: Controversial DOD Employee Pops Back Up at Education Department
By Open The Books | Substack For the better part of two years, the Pentagon’s K-12 school system has been embroiled in...
‘Shell Game’: The Feds Said Anti-White Activist’s DOD DEI Unit Was Disbanded. She Was Actually Promoted.
By Luke Rosiak | Daily Wire A self-proclaimed “revolutionary” who was removed from a role where she pushed left-wing...
‘Celebrating Diversity’: Biden’s Army, Navy Nominees Pushed DEI Ideology While In Uniform
By Shawn Fleetwood | The Federalist Army and Navy officials recently promoted by President Joe Biden pushed neo-Marxist...
Weakness, Not Wokeness, Plagues US Generals
By John Hughes, MD, former US Army officer, 4 combat tours of duty in Iraq and Afghanistan, USMA ’96 “The...
Pete Hegseth’s War on the Woke: Can He Fix America’s Broken Military?
By Brandon Webb, former Navy Seal | SOFREP It used to be that the military was the last bastion of meritocracy in America...
Trump’s Defense Secretary nominee Hegseth gears up to target Pentagon DEI initiatives
By Steve Richards | Just the News At a time when multiple regional crises are threatening to spiral out of control, Donald...
Military priority for Trump: Remove wokeness, restore standards
By Parrish Alford | American Family News President-elect Trump has plans to unilaterally remove transgender troops from the...
Trump Defense Secretary Pick Thinks ‘Marxists Are Our Enemies’
Well, yeah! Isn’t that what the US fought against for decades during the Cold War? Or maybe the writer was born after...
Message from Brig. General Christopher “Mookie” Walker
For those who don’t know me, my name is Chris, callsign “Mookie”, Walker and I retired last year as a Brigadier General...
Senator Hagerty: Service Members Re-Enlisting After Hegseth Nominated
By Daily Wire News Sen. Bill Hagerty (R-TN) said over the weekend that he has heard of stories of U.S. service members who...
DoD Needs This Change Agent
By S.L. Nelson Served from the tactical to strategic level as a military officer Success in today’s world favors smart...
Rebuilding our Warrior Class
Seb Gorka talks to Trump advisor Robert Wilkie about President Trump’s plans to save the military from DEI.
Defense contractors embracing DEI could be target of Trump’s second term
By Cami Mondeaux | Washington Examiner Defense contractors that have embraced diversity, equity, and inclusion policies...