At a recent hearing, Senator Schmitt told the Secretary of the Air Force DIE is divisive and cultural Marxism, and that to...
Category - Woke Agenda
CMR Statement to DoD: Reassess and Revoke Harmful DEI Policies
By Elaine Donnelly President, Center for Military Readiness The Center for Military Readiness (CMR) has submitted a formal...
Congressman: “Even as Americans have pushed back, the DOD continues its focus on DEI”
“The backlash is real.” (Press Release) U.S. Representative Jim Banks (R-IN), Chairman of the Military Personnel...
SecArmy Can’t Explain Why Race Should Be A Factor In Recruiting
By Micaela Burrow | The Daily Caller News Foundation Secretary of the Army Christine Wormuth could not explain in a hearing...
Mandatory DEI Statements Are Ideological Pledges of Allegiance. Time to Abandon Them.
Harvard Professor: “By overreaching, by resorting to compulsion, by forcing people to toe a political line, by...
Pentagon’s Austin pressed on whether DEI hiring freeze has harmed national security
By Cami Mondeaux | Washington Examiner A congressman is pressing the Biden administration to explain how the creation of...
Trans military chaplain suspended over alleged sexual groping comment
Weirdness from up north in the Canadian military: A military chaplain man who thinks he’s a woman wanted to group...
Ridding America of CRT/DEI: Target the Budget
By Richard Kline, USMA 1967 Served in the US Air Force, Senior Executive Service in the govt The battle to rid America of...
West Point ’64 grad says ‘Duty, Honor, Country’ saved him and his soldiers in Vietnam
By Dan Chalk | Midland Daily News In the view of retired U.S. Army Captain Michael Miller of Midland, the late Gen...
Biden Is Building A Military Based On DEI And Wokeness — We Need Merit And Preparedness
By Will Thibeau, Army veteran | The Daily Caller News Foundation The military is rightly understood as an apolitical...
Veterans Speak Out Against Military’s DEI Advisory Group
By J.M. Phelps | Epoch Times Veteran advocates are speaking out against a group of civilian leaders that provides the...
Where is the Warrior Ethos?
By Col. Michael J. Martini, USAF In the earlier part of my 23-year Air Force journey there was an emphasis on the Warrior...
DACODAI Public Meeting: 2-3 May 2024
The SECDEF’s senior DEI advisory committee (DACODAI) will be holding a public meeting at the beginning of May in...
Pentagon Won’t Respond To New Research Casting Doubt On Studies Supporting Military’s DEI Push
By Micaela Burrow | The Daily Caller News Foundation The Pentagon failed to respond to questions about a peer-reviewed...
Gender and Resilience Wargame hosted at NATO HQ
What?? At first this looked like a headline from the Babylon Bee, but no, it’s actually from NATO, yikes. Oh the days...
Short Takes, Part 1
News and articles too short for a post or a bit out of our military lane: In a DOD news article interview with the Director...
Stop Debating on the Left’s Terms!
By Christopher Skeet, former US Marine | PJ Media Whoever controls the language of the debate controls the debate...
Flag Officers 4 America Summary of Letters
They warned and predicted all that’s happened. From Flag Officers 4 America, retired U.S. Generals and Admirals...
30-Year Naval Academy Teacher Details Depth Of DEI Rot In America’s Military Institutions
By Shawn Fleetwood | The Federalist It’s no secret the Biden administration has “reimagined” the U.S. military into a left...
Pete Hegseth’s ‘The War on Warriors’ examines how the military was ‘manipulated into going woke’ by the left
Pete Hegseth’s latest book, “The War on Warriors,” was a passion project for the Fox News host who says the Army...
Analyzing the Decline: How ‘Woke’ Trend is Taking Military Recruitment to Historic Lows
A political scientist is blaming the unprecedented shortage in military recruitment in the government’s decision to turn...
STARRS President Ron Scott interviewed on Voice of Freedom
STARRS President Ron Scott was interviewed on the Lee Elci – The Voice of Freedom radio show, 94.9 talk radio in Connecticut...
The Playbook and its Players
By Scott McQuarrie, USMA ’72 Leader Quality Matters Who would continue DEI training/indoctrination when the majority of the...
An insider explains what has gone disastrously wrong with Boeing
By Chris Rufo | City Journal Boeing is—or was—a great company. From its manufacturing plants in Seattle, it produced the...
The Elite 1 Percent Behind the Cultural Civil War: The State is god
“Rasmussen’s identification of the elite 1 percent begins to explain the depth of the tension between most Americans...
Pentagon Used Debunked McKinsey Studies To Justify DEI In The Military
By Spencer Lindquist | Daily Wire The Department of Defense leaned on debunked McKinsey and Company studies touting the...
The Failure of DEI in the U.S. Military
By Gary Beatty, Vietnam War Veteran The United States of America, as a political entity, came into existence in 1787. For...
New Study Shows McKinsey’s Studies Promoting DEI Profitability Were Garbage
Yet the Navy used it as justification for DEI in their Task Force One report By Tristan Justice | The Federalist...
Correcting The Air Force Academy’s Accountability And Transparency Problems
By Scott Sturman, USAFA ’72 Who in the profession of arms possess the requisite courage to storm the beaches of...
If ‘Diversity Is Our Strength,’ Why Is Our Military So Weak?
By Elaine Donnelly President, Center for Military Readiness STARRS Board of Advisors Our military is in trouble. Chronic...
VMI’s Elephant in the Room
Many of the experiences of cadets at USAFA (as seen in this recent post “USAFA Cadet: “I came here to be mentally and...
Everything is Wonderful at West Point
By pyrene, a USMA grad On 11 March 2024, the Superintendent of the United States Military Academy at West Point, NY sent a...
USAFA Cadet: “I came here to be mentally and physically challenged, not be constantly told “I’m the victim”
Recent post on Service Academy Forum by a USAFA Cadet: “Disclaimer: This might not represent the views of the Cadet...
‘Unfit to Fight’: DEI Called Detrimental to Armed Forces, but ‘Prevalent Throughout Military Culture’
By Noah Slater | The Daily Signal Policies pushing diversity, equity, and inclusion are pervasive throughout the U.S...
Navy Leadership Failures
By Capt. Brent Ramsey, US Navy ret STARRS Board of Advisors In recent years, there have been incidents, accidents, and...
Will DEI End America—or America end DEI?
By Victor Davis Hanson | American Greatness At the nexus of most of America’s current crises, the...
I Will Not Fight for DEI
By J.B. Shurk | American Thinker Would you be willing to fight and die for multiculturalism? Would you put your life on...
Additional Material Worth Sharing with the DACODAI Committee
By Lt General Rod Bishop, USAF ret, USAFA ’74 STARRS Chairman of the Board General Lyles, once again there has been a...
USMA Supe briefs Class Leaders re Mission Statement Change – “Build[ing]” Diversity Creeps into the Mission Statement
By Scott McQuarrie, USMA ’72 President, Veterans for Fairness & Merit USMA’s Supe briefed class leaders on 3/19...
Leadership Standards and Accountability: The United States Naval Academy
This letter by a 1970 Naval Academy graduate, who was in the nuclear power industry, was written in November 2021 and...
USAFA Cadet at Genderbread Person Training: “Why aren’t we learning about China instead?”
STARRS heard there was a mandatory lecture at the US Air Force Academy that all cadets had to attend, given by two PHD...
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...