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Another new report says DEI doesn’t improve performance
By Madalaine Elhabbal | CatholicVote A new scientific study demonstrates that despite widespread claims, diversity does not...
“They Don’t Do He/Him” – China, Russia & Iran Mock U.S. Military’s Woke Culture
Patrick Bet-David and Vincent Oshana are joined by former Navy SEAL Andy Stumpf as they discuss how the military’s...
Former SECDEF: DEI Divides Us
Former Secretary of Defense Mark Esper, USMA ’86, was recently asked about the woke military on Bill Maher’s...
Your Local Diversity Bullies/Commissars/Bigots
By Commander Salamander, USN ret | CDR Salamander Substack One of the fun things about our Diversity Thursday visits over...
Disparate Impact Thinking Is Destroying Our Civilization
A recent article, Black junior enlisted likelier to face punishment than white airmen, talked about a new RAND report about...
The Birth Of Cultural Marxism: How The “Frankfurt School” Changed America
Read below the groups the Marxists used to replace the working class: By David Galland What happened to the American traits...
The Warrior Caste
By Will Thibeau, Army Veteran Secretary of the Army Christine Wormuth is concerned about the risk of “developing a warrior...
USAFA Grad: Disillusioned with the Direction of the Academy
By Lt. General Rod Bishop, USAF ret, USAFA ’74 STARRS Chairman of the Board Recent email sent to General Bishop:...
Nomination of Air Force Officer at Center of GOP’s Fight Against ‘Woke’ Military Extended to 2025
DEI Colonel Update: An Air Force officer whose promotion to brigadier general has been stalled by a Republican senator...
Lawmakers decry U.S. military’s drift to DEI culture
By Casey Harper | The Center Square The U.S. military’s ongoing embrace of the far-left culture war has drawn increased...
Air Force Slapped With Lawsuit After Claiming It Has No Records On Officer Diversity Quotas
By Micaela Burrow | The Daily Caller News Foundation A watchdog group filed a lawsuit against the Air Force on Wednesday...
Military Could Hit Troops With Courts-Martial For Refusing To Use Preferred Pronouns, Experts Say
By Micaela Burrow | The Daily Caller News Foundation The military could seek to formally punish service members for...
Stop talking past one another on the topic of diversity and inclusion
By Lt. General Rod Bishop, USAF ret, USAFA ’74 STARRS Chairman of the Board From part of an email sent out by General...
Our Service Academies Must Discard Race-Based Admissions
By Lawrence Purdy, USNA ’68 Eliminating racial discrimination means eliminating all of it… [T]he Equal Protection Clause …...
West Point Grad: Diversity chief who espoused anti-American ‘Marxist dogma’ will ‘destroy the State Department’
USMA 1986 grad Mike Pompeo (#1 in his class) on the State Department–which represents America to the...
USAA Shuts Down Bank Account of Trump Lawyer
USAA increasingly getting even more politically partisan and left-wing. See our articles on USAA here. Upset about USAA...
Senator: Service Members are Disgruntled About DEI
(Press Release) U.S. Senator Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) questioned Secretary of the Army Christine Wormuth and Chief of Staff...
Senator to SECAF: Fire all DEI positions in the Air Force, every single one!
At a recent hearing, Senator Schmitt told the Secretary of the Air Force DIE is divisive and cultural Marxism, and that to...
CMR Statement to DoD: Reassess and Revoke Harmful DEI Policies
By Elaine Donnelly President, Center for Military Readiness The Center for Military Readiness (CMR) has submitted a formal...
Congressman: “Even as Americans have pushed back, the DOD continues its focus on DEI”
“The backlash is real.” (Press Release) U.S. Representative Jim Banks (R-IN), Chairman of the Military Personnel...
SecArmy Can’t Explain Why Race Should Be A Factor In Recruiting
By Micaela Burrow | The Daily Caller News Foundation Secretary of the Army Christine Wormuth could not explain in a hearing...
Mandatory DEI Statements Are Ideological Pledges of Allegiance. Time to Abandon Them.
Harvard Professor: “By overreaching, by resorting to compulsion, by forcing people to toe a political line, by...
Pentagon’s Austin pressed on whether DEI hiring freeze has harmed national security
By Cami Mondeaux | Washington Examiner A congressman is pressing the Biden administration to explain how the creation of...
Trans military chaplain suspended over alleged sexual groping comment
Weirdness from up north in the Canadian military: A military chaplain man who thinks he’s a woman wanted to group...
Ridding America of CRT/DEI: Target the Budget
By Richard Kline, USMA 1967 Served in the US Air Force, Senior Executive Service in the govt The battle to rid America of...
West Point ’64 grad says ‘Duty, Honor, Country’ saved him and his soldiers in Vietnam
By Dan Chalk | Midland Daily News In the view of retired U.S. Army Captain Michael Miller of Midland, the late Gen...
Biden Is Building A Military Based On DEI And Wokeness — We Need Merit And Preparedness
By Will Thibeau, Army veteran | The Daily Caller News Foundation The military is rightly understood as an apolitical...
Veterans Speak Out Against Military’s DEI Advisory Group
By J.M. Phelps | Epoch Times Veteran advocates are speaking out against a group of civilian leaders that provides the...
Our Time To Choose: The Institution or The Constitution
On the Rob Maness Show, interview with Commander Rob Green and Vice Admiral William “Dean” Lee, USCG ret: Description: The...
Where is the Warrior Ethos?
By Col. Michael J. Martini, USAF In the earlier part of my 23-year Air Force journey there was an emphasis on the Warrior...
DACODAI Public Meeting: 2-3 May 2024
The SECDEF’s senior DEI advisory committee (DACODAI) will be holding a public meeting at the beginning of May in...
Congressman Demands Pentagon Hand Over Stats That Could Debunk COVID-19 Vax Argument
By Micaela Burrow | The Daily Caller News Foundation Rep. Jim Banks of Indiana demanded the Pentagon give updated data on...
Pentagon Won’t Respond To New Research Casting Doubt On Studies Supporting Military’s DEI Push
By Micaela Burrow | The Daily Caller News Foundation The Pentagon failed to respond to questions about a peer-reviewed...
Gender and Resilience Wargame hosted at NATO HQ
What?? At first this looked like a headline from the Babylon Bee, but no, it’s actually from NATO, yikes. Oh the days...
Short Takes, Part 1
News and articles too short for a post or a bit out of our military lane: In a DOD news article interview with the Director...
Stop Debating on the Left’s Terms!
By Christopher Skeet, former US Marine | PJ Media Whoever controls the language of the debate controls the debate...
Flag Officers 4 America Summary of Letters
They warned and predicted all that’s happened. From Flag Officers 4 America, retired U.S. Generals and Admirals...
30-Year Naval Academy Teacher Details Depth Of DEI Rot In America’s Military Institutions
By Shawn Fleetwood | The Federalist It’s no secret the Biden administration has “reimagined” the U.S. military into a left...
Pete Hegseth’s ‘The War on Warriors’ examines how the military was ‘manipulated into going woke’ by the left
Pete Hegseth’s latest book, “The War on Warriors,” was a passion project for the Fox News host who says the Army...
Analyzing the Decline: How ‘Woke’ Trend is Taking Military Recruitment to Historic Lows
A political scientist is blaming the unprecedented shortage in military recruitment in the government’s decision to turn...
STARRS President Ron Scott interviewed on Voice of Freedom
STARRS President Ron Scott was interviewed on the Lee Elci – The Voice of Freedom radio show, 94.9 talk radio in Connecticut...
The Playbook and its Players
By Scott McQuarrie, USMA ’72 Leader Quality Matters Who would continue DEI training/indoctrination when the majority of the...
An insider explains what has gone disastrously wrong with Boeing
By Chris Rufo | City Journal Boeing is—or was—a great company. From its manufacturing plants in Seattle, it produced the...
NextGen Marxism: What It Is and How to Combat It
(Daily Signal) What has happened to America? How did it become a land where teachers tell students they may have been born...
House Republicans urges Secretary of Defense to Address Left-Wing Extremism in the Military
(Press Release) Today, Congressman Derrick Van Orden (WI-03) sent a letter to Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin requesting...
The Elite 1 Percent Behind the Cultural Civil War: The State is god
“Rasmussen’s identification of the elite 1 percent begins to explain the depth of the tension between most Americans...
Pentagon Used Debunked McKinsey Studies To Justify DEI In The Military
By Spencer Lindquist | Daily Wire The Department of Defense leaned on debunked McKinsey and Company studies touting the...
The Failure of DEI in the U.S. Military
By Gary Beatty, Vietnam War Veteran The United States of America, as a political entity, came into existence in 1787. For...
New Study Shows McKinsey’s Studies Promoting DEI Profitability Were Garbage
Yet the Navy used it as justification for DEI in their Task Force One report By Tristan Justice | The Federalist...