By Jarett Stepman | The Daily Signal A focus on diversity, equity, and inclusion has damaged the effectiveness of the U.S...
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Video Clips from Hegseth Confirmation Hearing
Only the good stuff, not the screaming banshees. Sullivan To Hegseth: What Would Happen If We ‘Rip The Biden Woke Yoke...
Hegseth promises to reinstate, apologize and repay troops who refused COVID vaccine
By Kelsey Baker | Business Insider President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for secretary of defense, Pete Hegseth...
Secure America Now Releases Woke Warfare: A Documentary on DEI’s Threat to Our Military
(Press Release) Secure America Now, an organization dedicated to highlighting critical national security issues, has...
Woke Ideology Is Replacing Merit-Based Standards In Military
The Left has nearly dismantled the U.S. military from the inside. The core values that once made our armed forces feared and...
I’m a Black, Gay Veteran: DEI Is Destroying Our Military. Pete Hegseth Can Make It Great Again
By Rob Smith, Army veteran I am a Black, gay veteran of the U.S. Army’s Fourth Infantry Division and the recipient of...
STARRS Rod Bishop and Frank Gaffney Discuss Hegseth Hearing
STARRS Chairman Lt General Rod Bishop, USAF ret, USAFA ’74 discussed the Hegseth confirmation hearing and other topics...
Pete Hegseth Opening Statement
Opening Statement Secretary of Defense Nomination Hearing Senate Armed Services Committee January 14, 2025 Thank you...
Senator Schmitt highlights harmful DEI, woke agenda under Biden during Hegseth Confirmation Hearing
BAM! Senator Eric Schmitt talks about the harmful woke DEI agenda in the military, asks Pete Hegseth how he will fix this...
Dems Try Convincing America That Biden’s DOD Hasn’t Pushed Lower Standards For Women Despite Long List Of Evidence
By Wallace White | Daily Caller News Foundation Democrats at Secretary of Defense nominee Pete Hegseth’s confirmation...
Woke Warfare: A Documentary Exposing DEI’s Dangerous Grip On The U.S. Military
Secure America Now has released a new documentary on the threat of CRT/DEI ideology in the military. STARRS leaders Ron...
Yes, US generals should be fired
By Capt Steve Deal, USN ret In October 1939, just one month after he took over as Army Chief of Staff, General George C...
Military Must Go Back to Basics
By James Fitzpatrick Director of the Center to Advance Security in America The U.S. armed forces exist to deter aggression...
Pete Hegseth’s Battle Scars Are His Strength
By Michael Dakduk, deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan, including as a member of 1st Marine Special Operations Battalion (now...
Hundreds of veterans to descend on DC to march in support of Pete Hegseth’s confirmation
By Morgan Phillips | Fox News Two former Navy SEALs are planning to bring hundreds of veterans to Washington, D.C., next...
Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency chooses transgender Col Bree to “exemplify its values”
STARRS Yet another military event featuring the infamous Space Force Col Bree Fram pushing The Agenda. The Defense...
Confirmation Hearing for SECDEF – 14 January 2025
Here is the link to watch the confirmation hearing of Pete Hegseth to the next Secretary of Defense: WATCH HEARING (Senate...
Why the Pentagon needs Pete Hegseth
By Senator Rick Scott President-elect Donald Trump chose Pete Hegseth to lead the Department of Defense because he’s a...
From Woke to Warfighting: How Pete Hegseth Can Fix the Pentagon
By Rob Bluey | The Daily Signal Decades of social engineering have transformed America’s armed forces, prompting concerns...
Time to get tough on the Pentagon’s top ranks
By John Schindler There is no more unreformable bureaucracy in Washington than the Pentagon. There is also no more...
STARRS Leaders on Supporting Pete Hegseth for SECDEF
On the Securing America show on Real America’s Voice network, STARRS leaders were interviewed by host Frank Gaffney on...
Can DEI Be Removed From DOD?
Information Operations Host L Todd Wood speaks with BG Christopher ‘Mookie’ Walker (USAF, Ret) on the prospects...
Trump Versus DEI in the Military
By Capt. Brent Ramsey, USN ret STARRS Board of Advisors We already know what President Trump thinks of DEI. He tried to rid...
Our Woke Military
By Mike McDaniel, USAF veteran Harris/Biden military officials have denied their addiction to DEI, CRT and wokeness in...
Senate Video Telethon 2.0: Supporting Pete Hegseth, Opposing Cultural Marxism in the Services
STARRS leaders and advisors participated in this event hosted by STARRS Board of Advisors member Frank Gaffney: The Save...
Reducing Senior Officer Billet Bloat Requires Leadership
By Forrest L. Marion, Ph.D. Retired U.S. Air Force officer and military historian In December 1944, nearly a week into the...
Toxic Loyalty: Longevity as a flawed basis for Generals’ promotions
By John Hughes, MD, USMA ’96 ‘Toxic Loyalty’: “Blind loyalty to bad leaders and protected employees irrationally serves the...
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)...