By Edwin R. Jonas III STARRS North Dakota State Leader For more than 40 years, the Vietnam Veterans Memorial has stood as a...
Category - DOD
Short Takes
Various articles seen this week too short for an entire post: Wonder why they don’t have enough sailors or pilots...
Identity in the Trenches: The Fatal Impact of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion on U.S. Military Readiness
By Will Thibeau, US Army veteran, Ranger Director, American Military Project Claremont Institute (NOTE: This is the full...
Unwinding The Dangerous Politicization Currently Gripping Our Military
By Troup Hemenway and Will Thibeau, Army veteran, Ranger Recently, former President Donald Trump stated his intent to “ask...
Electing the Next Commander-in-Chief
By Elaine Donnelly, President of the Center for Military Readiness Republican and Democrat Platforms Reveal Stark Contrast...
Senator: The Left has hijacked DEI to pit Americans of different races, religions, and genders against each other
(Sen. Blackburn) Senator Marsha Blackburn believes that under the Constitution, all Americans must be treated equally. Yet...
The U.S. Military is in CRISIS – The culture is TRASH and no one is joining
YouTuber Nate Cornacchia, a retired Green Beret out of 1st SFG with a decade of experience in Army Special Forces and...
APP Releases a New Documentary: “Culture War: The Deadly Consequences of a Woke War Machine”
(Press Release) American Principles Project (APP) released a new documentary titled “Culture War: The Deadly Consequences...
An Anti-Woke Agenda for the US Military
By Will Thibeau, Army Ranger veteran First published on Tom Klingenstein’s website. His Note: As observed at the outset of...
How the Department of Defense Went Woke
By Will Thibeau, Army Ranger veteran First published on Tom Klingenstein’s website. His Note: Understanding our present...
The Logic of the Woke Military
By Will Thibeau, Army Ranger veteran First published on Tom Klingenstein’s website. His Note: Perhaps more explicitly than...
We Have a Duty to Speak Up
By Christine Walker, Editor-in-Chief of AT EASE! Veterans Magazine US Navy Corpsman – Desert Storm As the editor-in...
Only Accountability Will Restore Faith in America’s Military
Col Rob Maness, USAF ret, and a STARRS Board of Advisors member, interviews Air Force veteran Briana Cespedes on his show...
The Crisis in the Armed Forces
By Will Thibeau, Army Ranger veteran First published on Tom Klingenstein’s website. His Note: A cold civil war is won...
‘Why didn’t you protect me?’: Will Army leaders get a letter like this?
And Air Force, Navy, Marines and Coast Guard. Riley Gaines wrote a powerful letter questioning why the Georgia Tech...
Veteran: DOD withholds docs on whether DEI hiring improves national security
By Casey Harper | The Center Square The U.S. Department of Defense is under scrutiny for refusing to release records about...
Cigarettes, DEI and Our Military
By Dr. Greg Salsbury STARRS Board of Advisors In the early part of the last century, the popularity of smoking was at its...
Response to a Retired Major General
By Col. Ron Scott, PhD, USAF ret, USAFA ’73 STARRS President & CEO Dear General _____, This is just a quick note...
Active-Duty and Former Service Members Affected by Vax Mandate Continue to Plead for Congress to Lend Them an Ear
By J.M. Phelps | Gateway Pundit Over a month ago, former U.S. Army captain and Special Forces Green Beret John...
Candidate Trump on DEI and Covid Vax in the Military
‘Gone So Fast’: Trump Promises To Remove Military Commanders Who Have Pushed ‘Insulting’ Woke Initiatives (By Leif Le Mahieu...
Matthew Lohmeier on the Military Justice Today Podcast
On this episode of Military Justice Today, attorney Robert Capovilla interviews former space-based missile squadron...
The Corrupting Influence of DEI on Military Education
By CDR J.A. Cauthen, USN ret, USNA ’02 By now, the diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) industry’s capture of...
Matt Lohmeier on Marxism, CRT, and the Unmaking of the Military joins Take FiVe
“I really want to emphasize that men and women have no better opportunity in their lifetime to exhibit courage on the...
Liberal policies are causing harm to the US military forces
By James H. Shott | Bluefield Daily Telegraph The current mentality that is gaining acceptance considers so many of our...
Top military leaders to blame for woke culture destroying armed forces
By J.M. Phelps | World Net Daily Throughout the Biden-Harris administration, hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars have...
Duty, Honor, Country replaced by Diversity, Equity, Inclusion
Letter to the Editor of the Connecticut Examiner by Colleen Roberts, a STARRS Supporter To the Editor: Are Duty, Honor...
3 years later, Afghanistan War veterans haven’t forgotten – have you?
What happened with the pullout in Afghanistan is frequently cited by military-related people as to why they no longer...
DEI Is Costing Lives and Resources in America’s Military
Col. Rob Maness, USAF ret and STARRS Board of Advisors interviews CDR Randy Arrington, USN ret on The Rob Maness Show: The...
Shifts in Military Culture: Insights from Lt General Rod Bishop
Is the U.S. military compromising its unity and readiness for the sake of progressive ideologies? Join STARRS & Stripes...
Taliban Marks Three Years In Power By Showing Off American Military Equipment At Former US Base
By Jake Smith | The Daily Caller News Foundation After taking over Afghanistan three years prior, the Taliban hosted a...
Majority Of Americans Would Not Advise Family Members To Join Military, Poll Finds
By Jake Smith | The Daily Caller News Foundation The majority of Americans would not advise their family members to join...