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Put the ‘War’ Back in the Naval War College
By Victoria Manning | Restoration News The Naval War College (NWC) trains military officers on warfighting strategies to...
Military Members Harmed by COVID Vax Mandate and DEI Seek Relief
By Victoria Manning | Restoration News Actions taken by previous Democrat administrations have had negative impacts on...
Justice Department Settles Lawsuits Challenging Race-Based Admissions at West Point and Air Force Academy
(DOJ Press Release) The Justice Department announced the settlement of litigation challenging former race-based admissions...
Ridding Our Military of DEI Policies
STARRS Vice Chairman Maj General Joe Arbuckle, USA ret, was a guest on the Kim Monson Show, discussing the progress of...
Trump Admin Puts Nail In Coffin Of Biden-Era Vaccine Discrimination
By Reagan Reese | The Daily Caller News Foundation The Trump administration is putting the final nail in the coffin of a...
The Cincinnati Beat-Down
By Kendall Qualls, former Army Captain President of Take Charge STARRS Board of Advisors The recent attacks by a mob of...
COVID-19 Military Shot Mandate Falls on Shoulders of Senior Military Leadership, Not on Backs of Lawyers Giving Poor Advice
By J. M. Phelps | The Gateway Pundit Four years later, then-Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin’s COVID-19 shot mandate...
Trump Makes Universities Fork Over Admissions Data To Prove They’re Not Doing Affirmative Action
By Reagan Reese | The Daily Caller News Foundation President Donald Trump is expected to sign a Presidential Memorandum on...
DEI Admissions Gatekeeper Gives Briefing at USAFA BOV Meeting
In the section of the USAFA Board of Visitors meeting today on admissions (video below), it was a surprise to see Col...
Bringing Academies & War Colleges Back to Centerline
By Commander Salamander | His Substack For those who’ve watched for a long time, especially over the last decade, our...
Status of the CRT/DEI Agenda at the Air Force Academy
USAFA Board of Visitors member Charlie Kirk, appointed by President Trump, asked the Air Force Academy Superintendent about...
DEI Won’t Just Go Away
By Casey Chalk | American Mind At least on paper, DEI in the federal government is dead. On the very first day of his...
Jim Banks is Leading the Way to De-Woke the Military. The Rest of the Senate Must Follow.
By Victoria Manning | Restoration News It’s right for Americans to criticize political leaders who fail to properly...
Hegseth announces return of Confederate memorial to Arlington National Cemetery, removed by ‘woke lemmings’
By Louis Casiano | Fox News Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced Tuesday that “The Reconciliation Monument,”...
Woke Hasn’t Gone Away: It Is Rising – Again
By Col Rob Maness, USA ret STARRS Board of Advisors Woke is not dead, it’s resurgent in America, with a Communist Democrat...
Get Uncomfortable: A Decision HAS to be Made | Kacy Dixon
In this gripping episode of The Feds, host Stephanie Weidle sits down with Kacy Dixon, a former military intelligence...
Congressman Introduces Bill to Provide Backpay to Service Members Discharged Under Biden’s COVID Vaccine Mandate
(Press Release) Western Montana Congressman and former U.S. Navy SEAL Commander Ryan Zinke introduced the COVID-19 Military...
Our Well Intentions . . .
By retired Army Colonel “Cynical Publius” on X @CynicalPublius As many of my followers know, I talk a lot about...
Commanders Must Face Accountability for the Unlawful Vaccine Mandate
By Col. Rob Maness, USA ret STARRS Board of Advisors As a retired U.S. Air Force Colonel with 32 years of service—from...
Ron Johnson Urges Hegseth To Address Military COVID Mandate Victims Following DCNF Report
By William Wallace | The Daily Caller News Foundation Republican Wisconsin Sen. Ron Johnson urged Defense Secretary Pete...
Navy secretary pushes review board to purge DEI from Naval Academy and restore ‘warrior ethos’
By Morgan Phillips | Fox News The Navy may soon install a new educational review board aimed at restoring a “culture...
Congress Should Fully Codify Sound Military Personnel Policies
By Elaine Donnelly President, Center for Military Readiness Congress has finished work on the high-stakes Big Beautiful Bill...
West Point Leadership Thumbs its Nose at the Trump Administration & Loses
By Victoria Manning | Restoration News A recent scuffle with West Point’s woke leadership reveals how hard the Left is...
Army Secretary Orders Removal Of Biden Censorship Czar From West Point
By Shawn Fleetwood | The Federalist On Wednesday, Army Secretary Dan Driscoll ordered West Point to terminate the...
Two USAF Generals School Biased Reporter on Marxism in the Military
STARRS In its typical left-wing bias manner, a Military.com article by Rebecca Kheel about Matt Lohmeier entitled...
Further Data Shows Media Wildly Overestimated Number Of Trans Troops
By Jacqueline Annis-Levings | The Federalist In the weeks surrounding Trump’s inauguration, the left-wing media insisted the...
Exposing the Chain of Command | Sam Shoemate
The Feds podcast interviews Sam Shoemate, retired U.S. Army Chief Warrant Officer and Intelligence Officer, renowned for...
Battle over Transgender Troops Reignites on Capitol Hill
By John M. Donnelly | CQ Roll Call Multiple defense bills on Congress’ post-recess agenda would cement in law the...
Infamous Navy Drag Queen/Recruitment Influencer Reenlists
As if he hasn’t caused enough problems for everyone. Navy Yeoman 2nd Class Joshua Kelley, aka drag queen Harpy...
Update on DOD’s COVID-19 Reinstatement Process
Former Marine Lt Colonel Stu Scheller, who is now working in the office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Personnel and...
Four Years Later, Veterans Still Fighting To Get Justice For COVID Vaccine Crackdowns
By Wallace White | The Daily Caller News Foundation Four years after former President Joe Biden’s Pentagon mandated the...
Decision to remove West Point crest from chapel Bibles reversed by Secretary of the Army
By Diana Stancy | Fox News The Secretary of the Army has ordered the U.S. Military Academy at West Point to restore the...
STARRS “American Creed” presentation in Colorado: July 23
STARRS gave their presentation, “The American Creed Threatened By Radical Ideology”, at the Church For All...
Judicial Watch Sues for Records on Removal of West Point Crest from Bibles in Academy Chapel
(Judicial Watch) Judicial Watch announced it filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit against the U.S. Department...
West Point emails reveal how the prestigious military academy messed up Pete Hegseth’s admissions status
By Jack Newsham | Business Insider Recently released West Point records shed new light on exactly how the December snafu...
Brig. General Walker on PBS News Hour: DEI in the Military
In light of the left-leaning PBS being defunded, STARRS calls attention to this post originally from January 2025 where...
DEI Deprogramming
By Stanley Ridgley, PhD Professor, former Army military intelligence officer and author of DEI Exposed: How the Biggest Con...
Democratic Socialism – The Philosophy of Poverty
By Alexander G. Markovsky Socialism is like an infectious disease—one that societies must endure in order to build immunity...
Exposing DEI: Understanding the Strategy Behind Institutional Indoctrination
A lot of important, eye-opening information in STARRS July Town Hall with guest speaker Dr. Stanley Ridgley, a former Army...
Senior Military Leaders Need to Show the Courage to Take on the ‘Tough’ Questions, Says Retired Army Public Affairs Officer
By J.M. Phelps | Gateway Pundit A recent podcast by Shawn Ryan caught the attention of service members and veterans...
As an Esteemed Navy Commander is Subjected to Investigation, ‘You Come for All of Us’ Becomes the Rallying Cry for Former Service Members
By J.M. Phelps | Gateway Pundit On July 9, active-duty Navy Commander Robert A. Green, Jr., announced on X that he has...
U.S. Navy commander now investigated for exposing ‘unconstitutional and illegal actions by military leadership’ during COVID-shot mandates
By J.M. Phelps | WorldNet Daily One of the U.S. military’s most high-profile and respected whistleblowers, active...
Persecution in the Air Force
Chase Spears hosts Brennan ‘Skip’ Schilperoort, an Air Force major who faced persecution for resisting unlawful...
The Diversity Game Is a Gigantic Con
By George Leef | James G. Martin Center for Academic Renewal In his famous story “The Emperor’s New Clothes,” Hans...
Why hasn’t DEI in DOD been eliminated yet?
By John Hughes, USMA ’96 On 27 January 2025, President Trump made good on his campaign promise and officially ended...
Army secretary vows ‘grievous error’ targeting pro-life groups will never happen again
By Morgan Phillips | Fox News Army Secretary Dan Driscoll called a set of training slides that deemed pro-life groups as...
House Passes FY26 Defense Bill, Investing in America’s Military Superiority
Key items for our lane in this House Appropriations press release: Codifying President Trump’s executive actions to end...
Operation Midnight Hammer: Proof of the Trump Administration’s De-wokeification of our Military
By Nicole Kiprilov | Independent Women’s Forum After four years of the deliberate and relentless politicization and...
Naval Academy Settles on Shorter List of Banned Books as Pentagon Panel Weighs Ultimate Decision
By Konstantin Toropin | Military.com As the legal court battle over the Trump administration’s efforts to ban...