By James Fitzpatrick Director of the Center to Advance Security in America The U.S. armed forces exist to deter aggression...
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Surge of Female Enlistments Helped Drive Army Success in Reaching 2024 Recruiting Goal
An increase of 18% in women compared to only 8% in men. Is this the result of the aggressive DEI Agenda push across services...
Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency chooses transgender Col Bree to “exemplify its values”
STARRS Yet another military event featuring the infamous Space Force Col Bree Fram pushing The Agenda. The Defense...
Why the Pentagon needs Pete Hegseth
By Senator Rick Scott President-elect Donald Trump chose Pete Hegseth to lead the Department of Defense because he’s a...
I Fell in Love with the Law: Interview with Attorney Mike Rose, USAFA ’69
STARRS Executive Vice President and General Counsel Mike Rose was interviewed by Brad Dacus of the Pacific Justice Institute...
Fallout from The Big Lie
By Maj. General Joseph Arbuckle, US Army ret and Greg Salsbury, PhD There were signs President Joe Biden wasn’t calling the...
From Woke to Warfighting: How Pete Hegseth Can Fix the Pentagon
By Rob Bluey | The Daily Signal Decades of social engineering have transformed America’s armed forces, prompting concerns...
Time to get tough on the Pentagon’s top ranks
By John Schindler There is no more unreformable bureaucracy in Washington than the Pentagon. There is also no more...
Anchors Astray: Why the Service Academy Exception is Wrong
By Matthew Ormsbee, an active-duty military officer and assistant professor of law at the U.S. Air Force Academy writing in...
Can DEI Be Removed From DOD?
Information Operations Host L Todd Wood speaks with BG Christopher ‘Mookie’ Walker (USAF, Ret) on the prospects...
Trump Versus DEI in the Military
By Capt. Brent Ramsey, USN ret STARRS Board of Advisors We already know what President Trump thinks of DEI. He tried to rid...
West Point Grad Reveals What’s Wrong with the US Army
This video comes highly recommended from a number of people. It is an interview with retired US Army Colonel Casey...
Our Woke Military
By Mike McDaniel, USAF veteran Harris/Biden military officials have denied their addiction to DEI, CRT and wokeness in...
Senate Video Telethon 2.0: Supporting Pete Hegseth, Opposing Cultural Marxism in the Services
STARRS leaders and advisors participated in this event hosted by STARRS Board of Advisors member Frank Gaffney: The Save...
Gen (Ret) Lloyd Austin’s Troubling Legacy of DEI, Covid, Losing Wars and War Profiteering
By John Hughes, MD, USMA ’96 GEN (Retired) Lloyd Austin will be replaced as SECDEF once the new administration’s pick...
Ponytails and braids ‘foster inclusivity’
A female admissions liaison officer at the U.S. Air Force Academy recently wrote an op-ed in the Air Force Times titled...
Investigation: Are There Really 15K Trans Military Members?
By Mary Margaret Olohan | Daily Wire When the London Times published a late November report claiming that Donald Trump plans...
DEI helps no one
Letter to the Editor in the Washington Times: Reading “Is DEI dangerous? Study finds diversity training materials stoke...
How Trump Can Restore Integrity And Lethality To America’s Declining Military
By Shawn Fleetwood | The Federalist It’s safe to say that America has suffered greatly under the Biden-Harris...
DEI is like a woke IED for the left’s war against our military. We must defuse it.
By Col Grant Newsham, USMC ret A war is being waged against American society. The goal? To disrupt it, break it down and...
The rot in the Army culture is far worse than imagined
STARRS routinely collects comments to see the sentiment of what military people are thinking about the woke agenda. Comments...
When a Judge Incorrectly Rules Race as Legit in Naval Academy Admissions (Part 3 of 3)
By Capt. Charles “Cully” Stimson, US Navy JAG Corps, ret Can the U.S. Naval Academy continue to use race and ethnicity in...
Lohmeier and Gray: Fighting for a Military That Has Found Itself Bursting with Marxist Ideology and Sitting at a Dangerous Juncture
By J. M. Phelps | Gateway Pundit On Jan. 20, 2025, President-elect Donald Trump will inherit a U.S. military plagued with...
The Coming Fight to Abolish DEI
By Christopher Rufo There is a great clanging and clamoring around the offices in Washington, D.C. and Mar-a-Lago in Florida...
Oops, He (LTG Gilland) Did It Again! Another West Point Scandal!
By John Hughes, MD, USMA ’96 Here we go again… Last week national news outlets reported that ProPublica tried to...
Femininity in the Air Force (Actual USAF Headline)
The world’s ablaze, we’re this close to World War III but the US Air Force puts out this article on their...
The Military’s ‘Alpha’ Personalities like Pete Hegseth are What Makes It Effective
By Col. Laurie Buckholt, US Army, ret Throughout my 26 years in the U.S. Army and a year in combat, never once did I ask any...
The Bolduc Brief: The Crisis in Military Leadership – A Call for Reform in the US Armed Forces
By BG Don Bolduc, US Army ret The United States military has long been regarded as one of the most formidable fighting...
Feds Look To Hire Up To 1,200 New DEI Bureaucrats Before Trump Takes Office
Their research found many of the jobs were in DOD, Air Force, Navy, etc By Luke Rosiak | The Daily Wire The federal...
Interview with MGen Joe Arbuckle on the Flag Officers 4 America letter to support Hegseth for SECDEF
On Securing America TV, host Frank Gaffney interviews retired Army Major General Joe Arbuckle, who led an effort with Flag...
DEI and the Death of Effective Military Command
By retired Army Colonel Cynical Publius ( @CynicalPublius) As Pete Hegseth’s nomination for Secretary of Defense moves...
DEI contractors will be first fired at Pentagon
By Paul Bedard | Washington Examiner The incoming Trump administration already has plans to kill President Joe Biden’s...
House Moves To Block Taxpayer-Funded Trans Surgeries For Military Dependents
By Mary Margaret Olohan | Daily Wire The House of Representatives is moving to intervene in a case centered on the use of...
Biden Admin Dumped Hundreds Of Thousands Into Ensuring Military Parents Affirm Their Child’s Gender Identity
By Katelynn Richardson | The Daily Caller News Foundation The Biden-Harris administration awarded a federal grant to...
Politico Horrified Defense Nominee Hegseth Might Make Military Schools ‘Patriotic’
By Logan Washburn | The Federalist Pete Hegseth, incoming President Donald Trump’s pick for defense secretary, will revamp...
The Military Is Not Inclusive, It Is Exclusive
By Capt. Hung Cao, USN ret, USNA ’96 It is estimated that fewer than 23% of Americans between 17 and 22 are qualified...
A New Spirit: No More Living the Lies of Wokeism
By CDR Breck Henderson, US Navy veteran When I woke up on the morning of November 6, I felt that America was changed. A new...
West Point Professor: “You don’t want certain groups too far overrepresented leading the ranks”
West Point professor Morten Ender was interviewed for this Military.com article, “The Air Force’s Faltering...
The Air Force’s Faltering Effort to Get More Diversity Among Officers May Be Out of Time
Good, time’s up! Get rid of race and gender quotas and focus on merit. By Thomas Novelly | Military.com An Air Force...
Letter from an Army Ranger veteran/parent: West Point’s DEI Question; Women Rangers
Letter received by an Army veteran and parent. Some details removed to protect the author’s son. I am a 6-year U.S...
Military may be ground zero for the war on woke
By Casey Harper | The Center Square President-elect Donald Trump’s pick to lead the Department of Defense, though not yet...
Biden DOD Sued After Stonewalling Records Request Into ‘Radical’ General’s Nomination
By Wallace White | The Daily Caller News Foundation A national security watchdog is suing the Department of Defense (DOD)...
Air Force Academy sued over race-conscious admission practices
By Haylee May | Colorado Public Radio News The United States Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs is being sued over its...
Pete Hegseth says he hasn’t heard from West Point since employee ‘error’ denying his acceptance
Crickets. The small, sterile PR statement claiming it was a “administrative” mistake only AFTER Hegseth showed...
How to End Wokism in the Military: Trump White House and Congress Should Work Together to Strengthen Our Military
By Elaine Donnelly, President Center for Military Readiness The outgoing 118th Congress has voted for solid steps in favor...
The Daniel Penny Verdict is a Turning Point
By Greg Salsbury, PhD STARRS Board of Advisors Calling Jordan Neely a serial criminal seems like an understatement. With 42...
Women in Combat: Reality wins over DEI, as it must.
By @CynicalPublius on X Retired US Army Colonel I’ve seen some great articles about how Trump’s election is causing a...
Senator Presses Pentagon on Transgender Housing Incident at Missouri Military Barracks: ‘Military readiness is suffering because of your progressive social agenda’
(Press Release) Senator Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) sent a letter to Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin following a whistleblower report...
DEI Is Unconstitutional
By Max Eden and Josh Hammer | Newsweek Close observers expect that on Day 1, President Donald Trump will reissue his...
New Defense Spending Bill Puts Slew Of Left-Wing Initiatives On Chopping Block
By Wallace White | Daily Caller News Foundation Congress’ latest defense spending bill unveiled Saturday would deal a...