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Why the DoD Should Drop DEI and Affirm Meritocracy in the Military
By Elaine Donnelly President, Center for Military Readiness STARRS Board of Advisors For more than 30 years, mostly civilian...
‘Dear Boss’ Letter Decries Air Force’s Lack of True Leadership
A letter from 2017. Probably a good thing he got out before these same toxic leaders pushed an untested vax on their people...
West Point removing the words Duty Honor Country from mission statement
By John T. Reed, USMA ’68 Seriously? The words “Duty Honor Country” were on the cover of Time once. Why? it was the...
Why Did West Point Change Its Mission? (Part 2)
By pyrene, USMA Grad Part 1 of why did West Point change its mission asked about the specific choices of words. This Part 2...
Why Did West Point Change Its Mission? (Part 1)
By pyrene, USMA grad The Superintendent of the United States Military Academy at West Point, NY sent a letter out to all...
West Point Recruiting Pitch Is Big On Career But Doesn’t Mention The Army
True, we are a more “selfish” society, so appeals to values like selfless service may not resonate with as many as in former...
The DEI Commissariat
By CDR Salamander | CDR Salamander Substack If you think the DEI problem has gone out of control in our educational...
Defense Spending Bill Cuts Diversity Programs, But Leaves Out Provisions Blocking Trans Procedures, Abortion Funding
By Micaela Burrow | The Daily Caller The defense spending bill unveiled in the House early Thursday cuts millions in...
VMI Eschews Standards of Excellence, Devalues Diploma
By Joseph D. Elie, VMI ’88 | The Spirit of VMI As an alumnus living in Florida, I have a dearth of information about...
Latest wave of wokeness to hit West Point reveals one simple solution
Cut to the chase re Doug MacKinnon’s unusual solution: instead of just complaining about wokeness in the service...
Many top colleges, including service academies, ‘training a cadre of political commissars’ through DEI certificate programs
Many American colleges and universities are offering diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) certificates that are not only a...
House Conservatives Target Critical Race Theory in Govt in Budget Proposal
The largest bloc of conservatives in the House is targeting critical race theory (CRT) throughout the federal government in...
West Point Gives in to Creeping Liberalism
By Col Mackubin Owens, USMC ret Taught at the US Naval War College for 35 years In May of 1962, General Douglas MacArthur...
Senator Probes West Point’s Decision To Drop ‘Duty, Honor, Country’ From Mission Statement
(Press Release) U.S. Senator Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) sent a letter to United States Military Academy superintendent, Lt...
Congressman Grothman’s Statement on DEI in the Military
A STARRS delegation met with the Congressman in early February 2024. (Press Release) Congressman Glenn Grothman (R-WI)...
DACOWITS Pentagon Panel Says Women Should Be Integrated into Marine Platoons as Part of Recruit Training
The Marine Corps should fully integrate women into platoons and institute mixed-gender drill instructor teams at its recruit...
Duty, Honor, Nothing
By Citizen Soldier My father remembers a trip with my grandfather to the U.S. Military Academy in the early 1960s to watch a...
Duty, Honor, Country
By Lt. Col. Allen West, USA ret “Duty, Honor, Country…mere words to some” Duty – A moral or legal...
Congressman questions West Point dropping ‘Duty, Honor, Country’ from mission statement
(New York Post) The chairman of the House Republican “anti-woke caucus” fired off a letter Monday to US Military Academy...
‘Duty, Honor, Country’: Political Correctness At West Point Leaves Our Military Distracted From Its True Mission
By Brian Schaeffer, former Naval aviator If you’re a veteran like me, you will find it increasingly more difficult to watch...
The Feminization of the Army
By Cincinnatus I read The Feminization of America a few weeks ago, and that theme has been bouncing around my cranial cavity...
USMA Grads talk about West Point mission change
Jeanne Ives, USMA ’87 interviews MacArthur Society President Col (ret) Bill Prince, USMA ’70 on her show, The...
What does Gen. MacArthur have to say about those who would scrap ‘Duty, Honor, Country’?
By Capt. James Poplar, USN ret By now I suspect many of you have heard that Gen. Douglas MacArthur’s call to the Corps of...
‘Duty, Honor, Country’ versus ‘Army Values’
By Tony Lentini, USMA ’71 West Point’s superintendent created a firestorm among the American public with his announcement...
West Point Leadership Turns Its Back on ‘Duty, Honor, Country’
by Francis P. Sempa | American Spectator The headline in the Washington Times reads: “West Point deletes ‘duty, honor...
The New Praetorian Guard?
On the Right Angle podcast with Bill Whittle, Steve Green and Scott Uton, they discuss the news of the US Military’s woke...
What Needs to be Restored, Reformed and Improved at West Point
From America Free News Network: Over the past several days, there has been a royal donnybrook spawned by the decision of the...
Media Attack Sen. Eric Schmitt For Fighting DEI Racism In The Military
By Shawn Fleetwood | The Federalist America’s regime-approved media are attacking Missouri GOP Sen. Eric Schmitt for...
West Point Removes ‘Duty, Honor, Country’ from Its Mission Statement
By Kristina Wong | Breitbart News West Point Superintendent Army Lt. Gen. Steve Gilland on Monday announced a new mission...
West Point deletes ‘duty, honor, country’ from mission statement
By Bill Gertz and Mike Glenn | Washington Times The U.S. Military Academy at West Point has removed the words “Duty...
We Must Have Vaccine Damage Accountability for Our Servicemembers
By Congressman Matt Gaetz When rogue agencies conspire with private institutions to form an Orwellian Ministry of...
Waste of the Day: U.S. Navy Spent $4.3 Million To Play Fortnite, Other Games
By Adam Andrzejewski | RealClearInvestigations The U.S. Navy spent $4.3 million last year on recruitment efforts using...
West Point military academy drops ‘Duty, Honor, Country’ from mission statement
We’re just here for the comments, 2.5K so far. Fox News: The U.S. Military Academy at West Point has made the decision...
West Point Deletes “Duty Honor Country” from its Mission Statement
By John Lucas, USMA ’69 Army Ranger and Special Forces Green Beret; served with the 1st Calvary Division in Vietnam First...
The Power of Social Media and a Connected Alumni Network
By LTC Bill Fletcher, USAF ret, USMA ’74 F-4 Fighter Pilot In modern America, if not the world, the impact of social...
Inside the Pentagon: Woke Assoc. Director in SECDEF office tells all
These are the people running policy in the Pentagon. No wonder it’s so incredibly woke. Watch the whole video to see...
West Point Changes Its Mission
By James Atticus Bowden, USMA Class of 1972 On March 7, 2024, the Superintendent of the United States Military Academy at...
West Point Official Mission Statement eliminating Duty, Honor, Country
From the MacArthur Society of West Point Graduates: Col. (Ret.) Bill Prince, President of the MacArthur Society of West...
Reorganizing the Air Force in the Age of Woke
By John “JV” Venable, a 25-year veteran of the U.S. Air Force Senior Research Fellow for Defense Policy at The Heritage...
Miss America Tours Alma Mater USAFA with 27 Other State Delegates
The Secretary of the Air Force Frank Kendall delivered a blunt warning about China’s 20-year effort to build a military that...
Woke Policies Threaten to Shatter America’s Multi-Generational Military legacy
By Willis Keith Pseudonym for a retired U.S. Navy captain with over 27 years of active-duty naval service The U.S. Army...
Divided We Fall
By Lani Kass, PhD Served in DoD for 30 years STARRS Board of Advisors The presidential election is still 8 months away. Yet...
The indoctrination taking place within the DoD and the Air Force Academy
Another in a series of letters to the USAFA superintendent by Col. Ron Scott, PhD, USAFA ’73 and STARRS President:...
Stopping the Woke Agenda at the Defense Intelligence Agency
Just two people can stop woke. FOIA documents from the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) reveal that back in 2020, the folks...
Pushing the Woke Agenda on the Military: A preview in a 1973 letter from a combat veteran
First, a commentary by Scott McQuarrie (President, Veterans for Fairness and Merit, USMA ’72) about the below article...
‘Transsexualism’ is Rising Wildly in the Military, According to Seven Years of Public Health Data
By J. M. Phelps | Gateway Pundit Based on ICD-10 diagnosis codes related to transgenderism, the number of occurrences in...
A Man In Uniform
The below blog post, brought to our attention by a recently retired USAF Brigadier General, brings up an important point...
Members of Congress Press Air Force Academy on Trans Colonel’s Partisan Speech at Recent Conference
By Kristina Wong | Breitbart News Rep. Jim Banks (R-IN), Navy veteran and chairman of the House Armed Services Military...
Congressman brings veteran, advocate against vaccine mandate to State of Union address
(Press Release) U.S. Congressman Matt Gaetz (FL-01) brought former U.S. Army Captain and Green Beret John Frankman as his...