By Elaine Donnelly President, Center for Military Readiness STARRS Board of Advisors Members of the Senate Armed Services...
Category - Issues
Pentagon DEI Budget Surges for Military-Wide Woke Training to Root out “White Privilege”
(Judicial Watch) The Pentagon dedicates tens of millions of dollars annually to Critical Race Theory (CRT) and Diversity...
$450 Million B-1B Lancer Crash Attributed to Crew Failures and ‘Degradation of Airman Skills’
From Military.com: A B-1B Lancer valued at more than $450 million that crashed in South Dakota at the start of this year...
Navy SEALs, Sailors Who Refused COVID Vaccine Will Have Records Expunged After Legal Settlement
From Military.com: The U.S. Navy has reached a settlement with sailors who filed a lawsuit over the service’s COVID-19...
DEI, Critical Race Theory Pervades Military Trainings: Report
By Megan Rosevear | The College Fix Diversity, equity and inclusion and critical race theory topics now pervade U.S. Armed...
Army says slides labeling anti-abortion groups as ‘terrorists’ have been used for over SEVEN years
By Gabrielle M. Etzel | Washington Examiner Senior U.S. Army officials said Thursday that training materials labeling...
The US military ethos and its enemies
By Col. Mackubin Owens, USMC (ret) Taught at the US Naval War College for 35 years Over the past few years, public...
Lohmeier: DEI is Crushing Military Morale and Readiness
STARRS Executive Vice President Matthew Lohmeier was recently interviewed on the Brian Thomas Morning radio show about his...
DEI has RUINED Special Forces, The Secret Service and Law Enforcement
Nate Cornacchia, a retired Green Beret out of 1st SFG with a decade of experience in Army Special Forces and multiple...
Failure IS The Plan
By Lt Col Darin Gaub, US Army ret Co-founder of Restore Liberty What looks like incompetence is much more sinister in...
Open Letter to the US News Media
By Bill Scott William B. (Bill) Scott is a full-time author and consultant. He retired as the Rocky Mountain Bureau Chief...
All of them said “The military is different now”
From Fox News: . . . . Pete Hegseth told Fox News Digital that while the attention his War on Warriors: Behind the Betrayal...
“DEI Destroyed the Military” with Matt Lohmeier
STARRS Executive Vice President Matt Lohmeier was recently interviewed on the Veteran Biker show. Watch:
USAA Annual Meeting – 23 August 2024
A 1967 USAFA grad alerted us to an upcoming USAA annual meeting of this members and proxies to be held on 23 August 2024 at...
So many Americans have been brainwashed and indoctrinated
By Lt. General Rod Bishop, USAF ret, USAFA ’74 STARRS Chairman of the Board Email in response to this article:...
‘Integrate DEI into Everything We Do’: Pentagon School System Pushes Progressive Ideology on Children of Service Members
Comments by STARRS General Counsel Mike Rose, USAFA ’69 on the below article: This article below describes Leftist...
The American Dilemma: The difference between apathy and outrage is understanding consequences
By Capt. Tom Burbage, US Navy ret, USNA ’69 President, Calvert Task Group Our American civilization is engaged in a...
Leadership and Combat
By Maj. General Joe Arbuckle, USA ret STARRS Vice Chairman I’ve been deeply troubled by the social engineering verbiage...
The DOD Gambles On Climate Change
By Scott Sturman, USAFA ’72 STARRS Board of Advisors and Doug Goodman, USAFA ’72 Executive Order 14057 justifies...
An Assassination Attempt Reveals DEI’s False Promises
By Scott Sturman, USAFA ’72 STARRS Board of Advisors “He who occupies the high ground… will fight to...
STARRS MG Arbuckle interviewed on Kim Monson Show
STARRS Vice Chairman Maj. General Joe Arbuckle, USA ret, was recently on the Kim Monson Show podcast. He discussed STARRS...
Class of ’28: One of the most “diverse classes in U.S. Air Force Academy history”
The continued obsession with race, sex and identity. Focus on this divides rather than unifies as a team. (USAFA Press...
A Politicized Military, Run by a Frail President
By CDR J.A. Cauthen, US Navy ret, USNA ’02, taught at USNA President Biden’s debate performance on June 27 shattered any...
Make Department of Defense Schools Great Again
By Max Eden | AEI Tom Brady retired earlier this spring. He’d led his organization longer than anyone else on the scene and...
Military Kids Deserve School Choice Too
By Amy Hawood | The Federalist A new report on federally run schools for more than 66,000 military-connected...
Rep. Jim Banks Says Air Force Is Violating Federal DEI Ban
By Spencer Lindquist | DailyWire The United States Air Force has continued pushing its diversity, equity, and inclusion...
DEI is distracting our military from its primary task
By Jim Fein and Mary Mobley | Washington Times The military has one job: keeping America safe from foreign enemies by...
The Problem Isn’t that DEI Brings Us Women, The Problem Is that It Brings Us the Wrong Women
Michael R. Shevock, USCGA ’76 Like many of you, following the assassination attempt on former President Trump, I...
Calvert Task Group Announces the Upcoming Publication of ‘Don’t Give Up the Ship’
The fate of our country is in the hands of the American people. The time to act is now. ‘Don’t Give Up the Ship’ will be...
Army Opens Investigation Into Military Training That Called Pro-Life Orgs ‘Terrorists’
By Jake Smith | The Daily Caller News Foundation The U.S. Army opened an investigation after a training course at a base...
Lawmakers rip Army brass over training slides suggesting pro-life groups could be tied to terrorism
By Charles Creitz | Fox News More than two dozen members of the House Armed Services Committee demanded answers from the U.S...
Pentagon Schools Encouraged Students To Be Left-Wing Activists, Pushed DEI On Kids And Teachers, Docs Show
By Robert Schmad | The Daily Caller News Foundation Teachers at Pentagon schools promoted materials that train students to...
Letter: A worrying trend in the military
Letter to the Editor in the New Brunswick News in Georgia: “I just had the honor to host three of this country’s...
Persecuted ex-Space Force commander calls for eliminating woke ideology from U.S. military
By Calvin Freiburger | LifeSite News A longtime military commander ousted from the U.S. Space Force in 2021 for criticizing...
Report: U.S. Military Hides Push For Trans Surgeries, Queer Exploration Among Soldiers’ Kids
By Joy Pullman | The Federalist Congressional hearings have not checked Pentagon “diversity, equity and inclusion”...
Army Briefing Lists Pro-Life Groups as Terrorist Organizations
Military watchdog journalist Sam Shoemate posted on his X account (@samosaur) on 10 July: “An anti-terrorism brief was...
House Pushes Back Against Wokeism in Defense Bill NDAA – CMR Interim Report No. 2
By Elaine Donnelly President, Center for Military Readiness I am pleased to send you this original CMR Feature Article on...
DEI: How to Have the Conversation
By Greg Salsbury, PhD STARRS Board of Advisors Many of our volunteers have the task of introducing STARRS to new potential...
Army Training Tells Female Soldiers To ‘Accept’ Naked Men In Their Showers
By James Hasson, former Army Captain and Afghanistan veteran | The Federalist (STARRS NOTE: This article is from July 2017...
Letter to a General
Gen. Bishop responded to another general who dismissed or perhaps is unwilling to face the hard facts about what’s...
If you oppose their opinion, you are no longer welcome!?
By Rear Admiral William D. Rodriguez, US Navy, ret STARRS Board of Advisors Past Board Member, Hispanic Veterans Leadership...
What Life is Like Under Marxism
For those young enough not to know how miserable Marxism/Communism really is, read on. This is why US military veterans of...
Poll Reveals Gender Divide on Proposal to Include Women in Military Draft
STARRS Board of Advisor Elaine Donnelly, President of the Center for Military Readiness, interviewed. By Hudson Crozier |...
University study: ‘Vast DEI bureaucracy’ negatively impacting U.S. Armed Forces
By Cameron Arcand | The Center Square Diversity, Equity and Inclusion efforts in the United States military are...
Pentagon “Personnel is Policy”
In the news recently were the controversial radical statements and woke lifestyle from the new associate communications...
The Woke Military: Recent Examples
Recent examples of the continual wokeness agenda in the military: Mentoring event emphasizes support, “Pride in all who...
Senator: Our Military is Being Infected With Woke Politics While The World Implodes
By Senator Tommy Tuberville | The Daily Caller News Foundation For decades, support for the U.S. military was one of the...
Former Space Force Officer Says ‘Separate Chain Of Command’ Enforces ‘Divisive Ideology’ In Military Academy
By Harold Hutchinson | The Daily Caller A former United States Space Force officer said Saturday morning that diversity...
Former Space Force commander Matthew Lohmeier sounds alarm on the ‘very dangerous’ impact of DEI policy
Former Lt. Col. Space Force commander Matthew Lohmeier joins ‘Fox & Friends Weekend’ to discuss how DEI in the military...
Former Space Force commander speaks out against the CRT/DEI Agenda in the Military
By Hannah Grossman, Alba Cuebas-Fantauzzi | Fox News A former space commander is calling for a change of leadership after he...