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Court Protects Airmen in Vax Mandate Fight, ‘Upholds Religious Freedom Rights’
The Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals has upheld a ruling that shields airmen from COVID-19 vaccine mandates. The U.S. Air...
Senate Democrats Vote to Force Americans to Fund Military Abortions
Senate Democrats voted down a bill sponsored by a pro-life Republican that would stop illegal taxpayer funding of abortion...
The End of Truth
The most effective way of making everybody serve the single system of ends toward which the social plan is directed is to...
Merit Over Identity
Replace “university” with “military”: — The following is adapted from Heather MacDonald’s...
If Our Senior Leaders in the Military will not Fight Against Unlawful Mandates, Who Will?
Dr. Robert Malone, Ret. Army Major Gen. Paul Vallely and Ret. Lt. Col. Dave Trombly join The Constitutional Colonel Larry...
SPECIAL EVENT: Are The Skies Safe?
CD Media and American Conversations will host an evening event, “Are the Skies Safe?” featuring Wings for...
A Military Divided Cannot Stand
They may not want to admit it, but our military leaders, instructors and professors have dug the hole of political...
Critical Race Theorists Admit Their Revolution Is Failing
It was a bit cognitively dissonant last month when some of the best-known merchants of critical race theory began whining...
Sixth Circuit Refuses to Vacate Opinion on Air Force Covid Vaccine Requirement
Last fall, a unanimous panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit upheld a district court preliminary...
The military is converting to electric vehicles on bases, but charging them remains a challenge
The Department of Defense has mandated all military branches to convert their fleets of non-combat vehicles from gas powered...
West Point think tank worries about racial biases in drone strikes
The Modern War Institute at West Point published on their website an article by by two Army LT Colonels entitled, “Do...
These Are the Voices That Get Lost In the ‘Woke Military’ Debate
By Kathleen Anderson, USAF ret I served in the Air Force for over 20 years. Anyone who has worn the uniform knows that to...
Army Trainee Had Two Heart Attacks After COVID-19 Vaccine. Now, She’s Likely To Be Discharged
By Micaela Burrow, The Daily Caller News Foundation Karolina Stancik, an Army National Guard enlistee who suffered severe...
The US Military Is Losing the Woke War
By Col. J. Wesley Smith, USA (ret) The United States Armed Forces exist for two primary missions: to prevent war and to...
Complete loss of trust and confidence in the military attributed to the vaccine mandate
By an anonymous military member DOD’s hateful disrespect of inherent human dignity destroyed service member and public trust...
How the nation’s Corps of Marines has lost its way
By Maj. Gen. James Livingston, USMC (ret) and Col. Jay Vargas, USMC (ret) The United States Marine Corps is facing...
The Military Recruitment Crisis Is a Symptom of Cultural Rot
By David McCormick, USMA ’87 and James Cunningham America’s cultural cancer manifests itself in many ways, but no...
Army CGSC teaching officers that only “whites” can be racist
Army Majors currently attending ILE (intermediate level education) at the Command and General Staff College (CGSC) at Fort...
Pentagon Diversity Degrades Meritocracy
By Forrest L. Marion, Ph.D. Retired U.S. Air Force officer and military historian Recently, “Real Time” host Bill Maher came...
Be All You Can Be
New Army ads emphasize winning, but under the Biden junta the possibilities for losing are truly limitless. In the run-up to...
Diversity: Necessary for readiness or the bogeyman?
The key sentence in this article: “The discussion showed a partisan divide so wide that it was as if the two sides...
Rep. DesJarlais Blames ‘Woke-ism And DEI’ For Military Recruiting Shortfalls
Rep. Scott DesJarlais questioned the US Secretary of Defense, Lloyd Austin, and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen...
DoD’s highest-ranking trans official is in charge of Military Readiness
Shawn Skelly left the military in 2008, thinking sHE’d never return; now sHE’s in charge of getting U.S. forces ready for...
Army veteran GOP rep pushes to impeach defense secretary over ‘woke’ military, Afghanistan debacle
A Republican legislator is pushing to impeach Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin over the chaotic Afghanistan withdrawal and for...
Missouri Attorney General Questions Department of Defense on Support of Child Transgenderism
A letter from Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey to Secretary of Defense Gen. Lloyd Austin, which was exclusively...
Prominent DEI Proponent and Black Scholar Gives Colvin Lecture at USAFA’s 2023 National Character and Leadership Symposium
By Tracey Meck, Colonel, USAF (Ret) USAFA ’87 STARRS Newsletter Editor and Chief Dr. Eddie Glaude Jr. was the Colvin keynote...
The Woke Military
By Tracey Meck, Colonel, USAF (Ret), USAFA ’87 Newsletter Editor and Chief Recently the senior enlisted leaders from each...
DoD Vaccine Policy Update
By Joe Arbuckle, MG, USA (Ret) STARRS Vice Chairman of the Board After NDAA Win, STARRS Continues the Fight to Restore Those...
Status of Vaccine Refusers & DoD/Service Policies
By Tracey Meck, Colonel, USAF (Ret) USAFA ’87 Newsletter Editor and Chief The FY 23 NDAA rescinded the COVID-19 vaccine...
Is There Evidence of Adverse Vaccine Impacts on Service Members?
By Tracey Meck, Colonel, USAF (Ret) USAFA ’87 Newsletter Editor and Chief The VAERS database shows more vaccine injuries in...
What You Should Know If You Have Taken the Vaccine
By Dr Scott Sturman, MD, USAFA ‘72 STARRS Board of Advisors The Pfizer mRNA vaccine trial lasted 28 days and was not...
DOD’s 1st Pandemic Preparedness Plan In 2007 Required NO Mandated Masks Or Vaccinations
By Jim Zietlow, Colonel USAF (retired) US Air Force Academy Class of 1987 Former lead military planner for the 2007 DOD...
Military Readiness or Military Wokeness?
STARRS Board of Advisors member Elaine Donnelly was interviewed on Crosstalk to discuss military readiness versus military...
GOP Will Push Forward with Plans to Root Out ‘Woke’ Military Agenda
House Republicans expect to press forward with legislation targeting Pentagon policies they view as “woke”...
This woke Pentagon video delivers a dangerous message
By Rod Dorilas, Navy veteran When a Navy training video on the use of preferred pronouns emerged last year, many people...
Our military is in a dangerous decline and this is the reason why
By Rep. Michael Waltz, US National Guard Col. Dr. Kevin Roberts, President, Heritage Foundation The U.S. Armed Forces have...
Veterans to Congress: Wokeness is Hurting Readiness
By Dave Patterson, retired U.S. Air Force Pilot with over 180 combat missions in Vietnam and a former Principal Deputy Under...
West Point Cocaine Party One Year Later
By John Hughes, MD, USMA ’96 Union Generals McClellan, Burnside, Pope, and Rosecrans were relieved of command in the...
Military’s crusade for ‘diversity’ a delusion, says vets group
American Family News journalist J.M. Phelp wrote an article about STARRS and interviewed STARRS LTG Rod Bishop: A group of...
Defense Department ‘Drastically Shifted Off Course’
America is facing “the most serious and alarming recruiting and retention crisis that we’ve seen since Vietnam,” Rep. Mike...
Senator blasts DOD woke agenda at military bases
(Press Release) U.S. Senator Steve Daines issued the following statement about the 2021 “Drag Story Time” hosted at...
Navy Urges Americans To Be An ‘Ally’ As Biden Admin Promotes Transgenderism
The Biden administration promoted and celebrated transgenderism on Friday, just one day after condemning states that have...
Pentagon disbands DEI unit after chief accused of ‘racism’ against Whites, injects agenda deeper into agency
The Pentagon’s education wing for the children of military members – the Department of Defense Education Activity –...
Diversity Executives – The U.S. Version of Soviet Political Commissars
Employing significant numbers of diversity executives is all the rage. The average university, for example, now has 45.1...
Report of the National Independent Panel on Military Service and Readiness
STARRS Chairman of the Board LTG Rod Bishop, USAF ret, is a member of the National Independent Panel on Military Service...
U.S. Military Isn’t Venue for Social Experiments and Political Correctness
(Press Release) Subcommittee on National Security, the Border, and Foreign Affairs Chairman Glenn Grothman (R-Wis.) opened a...
If we cannot defend our nation rhetorically, we will be unable to do so kinetically
By Dr. Meaghan Mobbs, USMA 2008 Former Army Captain Bio My name is Dr. Meaghan Mobbs, and I am the daughter of two former...
Take Politics Out of the Military
By Jeremy Hunt, USMA, 2015 Former Captain, US Army Watch the latest video at foxnews.com US military has ‘serious...
Public Perceptions of the Politicization of the Military is Impacting Readiness Today
By Brent D. Sadler, USNA ’94 Captain, US Navy, ret Bio Bottom Line Up Front: Too many Americans believe the military...