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Congress Has the Power to Fix Our Military
By Elaine Donnelly President, Center for Military Readiness (CMR) STARRS Board of Advisors Several measures passed in both...
Pentagon rolls back gender-neutral pronoun requirement for joint military awards
The Pentagon quietly reversed its gender pronoun policy for award citations on Tuesday after it had previously updated its...
‘Diversity’ is NOT a National Security Imperative
By Brigadier General Ernie Audino (US Army ret), USMA graduate Bullets snapping across a battlefield are equal opportunity...
American Maoism
The Left moves operationally and according to a battle logic known as “dialectical political warfare.” The dialectic is the...
In Leaked Video, Veterans’ Affairs Tells Providers To Promote Abortion, Avoid Saying ‘Mother’ And ‘Baby’
The Department of Veterans Affairs teaches its so-called health care providers to encourage abortions, instructs that men...
America’s ‘Rainbow’ Military Is On Track To Lose Another Major War
US military asks the public for help finding its missing F-35 fighter jet after its pilot had to eject while training over...
Lawmakers grill military academies on if they ‘condone’ DEI speakers’ controversial statements
Two veteran congressmen are demanding answers from the heads of West Point and the U.S. Air Force Academy (USAFA) regarding...
Military Leaders Left Speechless After GOP Rep Asks If The Military Is Ignoring Biden’s Diversity Order
By Micaela Burrow, The Daily Caller News Foundation Military leaders were briefly rendered speechless Wednesday after...
Space Force Smacks Down General’s Claim They Assign Personnel Based On Red State Abortion, ‘Anti-LGBTQ’ Laws
By Micaela Burrow, The Daily Caller News Foundation The Space Force’s top civilian human resources pushed back at a hearing...
De-Woking the Pentagon: Returning the Military’s Focus to Its Mission
Congressman Jim Banks, Lt. General (Ret.) Jerry Boykin, and Chief (Ret.) Rocky Rogers talk about how they are each leading...
Tuberville Forces Floor Vote on Military Nominations
(Press Release) Yesterday, U.S. Senator Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) delivered remarks on the Senate floor after Chuck...
Lt. Gen (Ret.) Keith Kellogg on FY24 House Defense Appropriations Bill
(Press Release) The America First Policy Institute (AFPI) released the following statement from Lt. General (Ret.) Keith...
U.S. Rep. Greg Steube Introduces the Preserve Military Recognition Act
(Press Release) U.S. Representative Greg Steube (R-Fla.) today introduced the Preserve Military Recognition Act to reverse...
Gen. Mark Milley Asserts Military Is ‘Not Woke’
The chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen. Mark Milley, pushed back on accusations that the U.S. military is woke...
When a Diversity Conference Could Benefit from an Increase in Diversity
Col. (Ret.) William F. Prince, U.S. Army Special Forces USMA 1970, MacArthur Society Board Member From 30-31 August 2023...
US anti-affirmative action group challenges West Point admissions policy
The group that successfully challenged race-conscious collegiate student admissions policies at the U.S. Supreme Court sued...
Why Don’t Americans Want to Be Air Force Pilots?
By Dave Patterson Retired U.S. Air Force Pilot with over 180 combat missions in Vietnam Former Principal Deputy Under...
Army Ranger slams woke military policies’ effect on recruitment: ‘It blows my mind’
Tim Kennedy joined ‘Fox & Friends Weekend’ to discuss the rise of wokeness in the military and its impact on recruitment...
Too Political To Become Chairman Of The Joint Chiefs Of Staff
By Jan Tegler At a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing in early July to consider his nomination to be chairman of the...
Uniformed USAFA Cadet Publicly Disrespects Congress at 2023 West Point DEI Conference
By John Hughes, MD, USMA ’96 On 30-31 August 2023, LTG Steven Gilland’s West Point hosted the 20th Annual Diversity, Equity...
Pentagon Clarifies: Award Citations Can Use Gender-Specific Pronouns ‘Himself’ and ‘Herself’ — Instead of ‘Themselves’
By Micaela Burrow, The Daily Caller News Foundation A Department of Defense (DOD) policy incorporating “gender neutral”...
“If we lose a strong military, then we lost everything.”
(Press Release) U.S. Senator Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) spoke on the Senate floor on the 22nd anniversary of the September 11th...
After Tuberville Oversight, Navy Discontinues Digital Ambassador Program
(Press Release) In response to oversight from U.S. Senator Tommy Tuberville (R-AL), Under Secretary of the Navy Erik Raven...
Meet The Covid-Obsessed Biden Nominee Who Thinks You Should Suffer For Not Getting An Experimental Shot
. . . . While Tuberville’s critics have baselessly claimed his protest is harming “military readiness,” a deep dive into the...
Biden’s Air Force Nominee Believes It’s ‘Naive’ For Service Members To Doubt The Military’s ‘Institutional Racism’
An Air Force lieutenant general nominated by President Joe Biden once claimed U.S. service members are “naive” to believe...
Tuberville: Biden Democrats Have Created ‘Most Woke, Defenseless Military’ In History
Senator Tommy Tuberville speaks out on how Democrats have implemented policies that have made our armed services the “most...
Recommendations for the FY 2024 NDAA
(Heritage Foundation) Summary: The two versions of the FY 2024 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) currently under...
‘Woke’ Military Policies Drops Public Confidence To Lowest Point Since ’97
Criticism of our ‘woke’ U.S. military continues, as public confidence has dropped to it’s lowest point in...
Discrimination, Excommunication, and Indoctrination
By Tony Lentini, USMA ’71 DEI, the acronym for so-called Diversity, Equity and Inclusion that has infiltrated and infected...
AFOSI holds Political Commissar conference
Not good when it’s now OSI drinking the political commissar kool-aid–if the Marxist direction of this country...
How the Hell Do You Think Us Veterans Feel Right Now?
By Colonel Kurt Schlichter, US Army ret Was I a sucker? I sure don’t want to feel like a sap, but the thought that I may be...
STARRS Strikes Back – Against Wokeness in our Military
STARRS Vice Chairman, retired Major General Joe Arbuckle, and STARRS President, retired Colonel Ron Scott, PhD, were guests...
Removing the Marxists, Rebuilding the Military
By Frank Gaffney A stunning, if absurd, indicator of the depths to which the Biden administration is taking the U.S...
Biden Administration Policies have Weakened the US Military
(Press Release) Biden Administration’s Budget Proposals and Misplaced Priorities Threaten U.S. Military Readiness and Have...
Pompeo: Rightly reward merit, not left-wing compliance in the military
Fox News had an article baiting its audience to generate anger concerning a national security academic elite who dismisses...
Pentagon Civilian Leaders’ Attacks On Tuberville Are ‘Eroding Their Credibility,’ Experts Say
By Micaela Burrow, The Daily Caller News Foundation Experts and Republican lawmakers said the Pentagon’s top civilian...
Removing the Confederate Memorial is erasing history
By Lt. Col. William Layer, USAR ret On September 2nd the Army closed its thirty-day comment period soliciting the public’s...
No one wants to accept blame for the Afghanistan war
By John Hughes, MD, USMA ’96 Veteran of Haiti, Iraq, Afghanistan President of MacArthur Society of West Point Graduates The...
Why the MacArthur Society?
By LTG Thomas McInerney, USAF ret, USMA Class of ’59 MG Paul E Vallely, USA ret, USMA Class of ’61 Col. Andrew P...
Activist wants ‘unconstitutional’ Christian bookstore off Army Base
An activist hopes to remove a small Christian bookstore operating in an exchange mini-mall on Fort Liberty, N.C. claiming a...
Tuberville Corrects False Media Reporting on Military Holds
(Press Release) In a statement today, Coach Tommy Tuberville corrected the Democrats and their media allies’ false reporting...
Senator demands answers on military’s vaccine mandate
(Press Release) U.S. Senator Tommy Tuberville has sent a letter to Navy Secretary Carlos Del Toro, Air Force Secretary Frank...
DOD’s Using “Themself” in Military Awards Shows Misplaced Priorities
(Press Release) Senator Tom Cotton (R-Arkansas) today sent a letter to Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin criticizing the...
Our Navy is “in extremis,” a nautical expression that indicates imminent danger
By Capt. Brent Ramsey, US Navy, ret “Now Hear This” is the classic alert in the Navy that something important for all hands...
Air Force System Exists Just To Track ‘Progress’ In Diversity
By Micaela Burrow, The Daily Caller News Foundation The Air Force is developing a system that tracks changes in the...
DEI vs Meritocracy at the USAFA
We keep seeing the diversity statement that the military should mirror/reflect the racial and gender makeup of the U.S.:...
Naval Academy Boosting Midshipmen Training….in Gender and Sexuality Studies
By Capt. James Nault, US Navy ret, USNA ’81 My alma mater is offering classes in “Gender and Sexuality Studies” and...
Coach Courageous
Two weeks after Lloyd Austin was sworn in as defense secretary in January 2021, he released a memo to his bureau’s senior...
Only Fat Dumb Criminals Can Make the Air Force ‘Diverse’
Air Force Chief of Staff Charles Q. Brown Jr, Biden’s nominee to replace Milley as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff...