By Matthew Olay | DOD News A Defense Department task force has confirmed DOD’s successful implementation of a...
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Should Trump trust his generals who almost all endorsed Marxist-derived DEI?
By John Hughes, USMA ’96 “WASHINGTON, March 25 (Reuters) – China remains the top military and cyber threat to...
At Annapolis, not so much who is admitted, but who is hired
By CDR Salamander | Substack This took place in the Biden Administration. With the discussions about what is going on with...
West Point Gets Back To Business: It’s Training for Army Officers, NOT a Liberal Arts College
By CDR Breck Henderson, US Navy veteran Dr. Graham Parsons, a professor of philosophy at West Point, recently published an...
Most books pulled from Naval Academy library are back on the shelves in latest DEI turn
By Lolita Baldor | Associated Press All but a few of the nearly 400 books that the U.S. Naval Academy removed from its...
House Democrats look to bolster trans military protections
Members of Congress still pushing the woke ideology agenda on the military: By Brooke Migdon | The Hill House Democrats...
Congressman: Keep Our Military Focused On Readiness, Not Social Experiments
By Rep. Barry Moore As a proud American, a staunch conservative, and a supporter of our men and women in uniform, I believe...
West Point Trades Real Reform For Illusory Paper Compliance
If the academy cannot produce officers loyal to the Constitution, its leadership is not just failing, it is compromising...
BOOK REVIEW: Liberal Bolshevism — An American Tragedy
By Lt Col. Eric Vogel, USAF ret, USAFA ’73 This is a book review of Alexander G. Markovsky’s Liberal Bolshevism:...
West Point’s leftist-if-not-Marxist plebe American History textbook
Lou Coatney, a retired government and academic librarian who attended West Point in 1964 and 1965, wrote the below article...
What happens when you tell a philosopher ‘No’
By Owen Anderson We need more philosophers to resign from their university posts. Graham Parsons, a philosophy professor at...
He’s the right man, in the right place, right time and just in the nick of time
By Buck Torske, retired Navy Chief Petty Officer It’s obvious “mainstream” press and media can’t stop beating up all things...
Buh-Bye West Point
By pyrene* Full Professor Graham Parsons got a long screed on the sanctimony of his virtue-signaling resignation from the...
Low-Trust Military
By Major Chase Spears, USA PAO ret Sir Winston Churchill is known to have remarked that “In wartime, truth is so precious...
Forgive? First we need to drag out and discuss what we cannot forget
“Until we have a full Truth and Reconciliation Commission-like public accounting about the active discriminatory...
CRT/DEI can be technically removed but decades of indoctrination persists
The Marxist-based CRT/DEI/Woke ideology can TECHNICALLY be removed from the military but eliminating the baked-in...
Command Board at USAF Base Vandalized
A command board from the 55th Wing unit at Offutt Air Force Base in Nebraska was vandalized with the letters...
DOD Issues Implementation Guidance on Separation of Service Members With Gender Dysphoria
By C. Todd Lopez | DOD News Yesterday, military leaders across the force were issued guidance from the Defense Department on...
Update on DEI Situation at West Point and the Military
MacArthur Society President Col. Bill Prince, USA ret and a 1970 graduate of the US Military Academy gives an...
Congressman introduces Readiness Over Wokeness Act
(Press Release) Rep. Barry Moore (AL-01) introduced the Readiness Over Wokeness Act. This legislation will codify President...
Whatever happened to that woke USAF Colonel blocked by the Senate?
So many posts on the STARRS website regarding Air Force Col. Ben Johnsson whom Republicans kept blocking from becoming a...
There Are No Race Theorists in Foxholes
By Doug Philippone, West Point graduate, former Army Major When the U.S. invaded Iraq in 2003, I was commanding a Third...
Diversity Is Not Our Strength
Above photo: Recruits take the Naturalization Oath of Allegiance to the United States of America during a naturalization...
West Point Profs and Staff: “Should they resist Mr. Hegseth’s order or resign in protest?”
Some insight into what is going on with professors at West Point can be found in this Washington Post article, The...
Leftist West Point Professor Leaves in a Huff Over the End of Brainwashing
By Streiff | Red State A civilian West Point professor made a public spectacle of his exit from the US Military Academy and...
Disciplined Delusion and the Lohmeier Hearing
By Forrest Marion, PhD Military Historian and Air Force Veteran For a bit of ancient history, it was four years ago this...
“Constructivism and Feminism” Course at Naval War College
By CDR Salamander | Substack Last week we looked at the Naval War College. We’ll call that Episode 1. Time for Episode 2...
The Fruits of Institutional Capture: “Women, Peace, and Security”
By CDR Salamander | Substack Institutional capture is very real. Regardless of what initial intentions are, if you create...
Removing Transvestites from the Military Enhances Readiness and Lethality
By Lt. Col. Darrin Gaub, USA ret You will notice that I did not use the other “trans” word in the title because...
Reviewing the Department’s Military Educational Institution Library Collections
Statement by Chief Pentagon Spokesman and Senior Advisor, Sean Parnell: Today, the Department issued guidance to senior...
Pete Hegseth says West Point professor who resigned over Trump admin education overhaul ‘will not be missed’
By Christina Shaw | Fox News A West Point professor’s resignation over education shifts brought, in part, by the Trump...
Active-Duty Military on TikTok
Ongoing weird trend of active-duty servicemembers telling it all/showing it all on their TikTok accounts–in uniform. A...
Sen. Banks Asks Gen. Tata How He Will ‘All Together Eliminate’ DEI Programming From Military
During a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing on Tuesday, Senator Jim Banks questioned Brig. General Anthony J. Tata...
New Chase Spears Podcast: Finding Your Spine
Retired Army PAO Chase Spears, who spoke on our last Town Hall “The Military’s Leftwing Ideological Resistance:...
Supreme Court Allows Trump Admin To Enforce Transgender Military Ban
By Katelynn Richardson | The Daily Caller News Foundation The Supreme Court allowed the Trump administration on Tuesday to...
How Department of Defense Educational Activity Staff Co-Opted Diversity Equity and Inclusion Protests
By Lt Col. Ken Segelhorst, USA ret In early 2025, students at Department of Defense Education Activity (DoDEA) schools...
How wokeness infected even horse shows
By Judge Bruce Tucker Smith Retired United States administrative law judge 21-year veteran of the United States Air Force...
White House: “We are going to have a system of merit”
By Jessica Guynn | USA TODAY The White House put corporate America on notice that President Donald Trump plans to replace...
STARRS Presentation on April 28, 2025
STARRS President Ron Scott and Executive Vice President/General Counsel Mike Rose gave the presentation, “The American...
Drew Dix Podcast – Pushback From Within
Drew Dix on pushback from within, is it undermining America’s strength? He also talks about the pushback in the military...
It is time to admit what the Marxist Left has done to black Americans
By Kendall Qualls, US Army Veteran President of TakeCharge STARRS Board of Advisors It is time for native black Americans...
Secretary of Defense Hegseth Orders Military Medical Standards Review
By Guy D. McCardle | SOFREP Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth has officially ordered a full-spectrum review of the U.S...
The Uniform Is Not Invincible: Firing Generals Is Critical to Restoring Military Lethality
By Will Thibeau, US Army veteran President Trump and Secretary of Defense Hegseth relieved the chairman of the Joint Chiefs...
Statement by Chief Pentagon Spokesman Sean Parnell on the Conclusion of Service of DOD Advisory Committee Members
(DOD) Yesterday, informed by the recently concluded 45-day review of DOD advisory committees, Secretary of Defense Pete...
How DEI took a sledgehammer to the US military’s war ethos
By Col. Mackubin Owens, USMC (ret) U.S. civil-military relations rest on a fundamental contradiction. The United States...
Trump Asks SCOTUS To Uphold His Ban On Transgender Troops In The Military
By Mary Margaret Olohan | The Daily Wire President Donald Trump’s administration asked the Supreme Court on Thursday to...
DOD Branch Chief Vows to Resist Trump and Hegseth
James O’Keefe released a new undercover video of a Department of Defense Branch Chief denigrating the Commander-in...
Most Dem-Voting Federal Bureaucrats Say They Would Disobey ‘Legal’ Orders From Trump, Poll Shows
By Hudson Crozier | The Daily Caller News Foundation A new poll found that a majority of federal employees who previously...
Trump Just Fired A Deadly Shot At DEI — And The Legacy Media Is Totally Ignoring It
By Natalie Sandoval | Daily Caller News Foundation Show of hands: who’d prefer his surgeon earn his degree by merit, not...
Navy Scraps Biden-Era ‘Climate Action’ Plan, Returns Focus To Warfighting
By Shawn Fleetwood | The Federalist The U.S. Navy officially scrapped a Biden-era “climate action” plan for the force on...