By Col. Bill Connor, Esq., USA ret, The Citadel ’90 Chairman, STARRS Board of Advisors As happened with Joe Biden in 2020...
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War Department Cuts Ties With Harvard University
By C. Todd Lopez | Pentagon News Secretary of War Pete Hegseth today announced the War Department would sever its academic...
Only a Conservative Military is Capable of Defending the United States
By Major Chase Spears, PhD, USA ret Last month a federal circuit court panel in Washington, D.C. upheld the Department of...
The Left will go after the institution that will resist them the least, for the most impact: The Military
By Commander Salamander | CDR Salamander Substack Everyone and every institution has a role to play at a particular time and...
Back to Warfighting: The Hegseth Doctrine Takes Shape
By Victoria Manning | Restoration News Peace through strength is back, and DEI is on life support. In just his first year...
DEI’s ‘Divisive Ideology is Still Very Much Present, Just Lying in Wait’ for the Military
By J.M. Phelps | Gateway Pundit An insider, possibly a holdover from the Biden administration, might be pressuring...
FOIA Uncovered: DEI and The JAG Agenda
On retired Army intelligence officer Sam Shoemate’s podcast, he interviews Mason Weiss, a former JAG Officer. Weiss...
How TikTok’s Algorithm Poisoned the Minds of Young, Liberal Women
Everyone is writing stories trying to figure out why liberal women have become increasingly unhinged lunatics. All seem to...
Scouting America ‘on the clock’ to roll back DEI, War Dept says
By Stephen Sorace | Fox News The Department of War is moving to overhaul its partnership with Scouting America, saying the...
A Quarter Of ‘Minority Contracting’ Firms Banned After Refusing Anti-Fraud Check
More on the infamous 8(a) Program (as known in the defense industry as “Eskimo Contracts”) that Secretary...
The Pentagon right to reassess women’s effectiveness in ground combat roles
By Michelle Thibeau, USMA ’14, served in Special Operations Command in Afghanistan and Amber Smith, Former Deputy...
Virginia Democrats blasted for threatening historic military college VMI with funding threat over DEI concerns
By Preston Mizell | Fox News Virginia Democrats in the state’s House of Delegates introduced a resolution on Tuesday that...
How The Biden Admin Tried To Keep The VA Woke After It Left Town
By Virginia Kruta | The Daily Wire In the last year of the Biden administration, the Department of Veterans Affairs...
Close Woke War Colleges?
CEO of gCaptain John Konrad posted on X, “How many times do I have to submit the request to close the Naval Woke...
It was just yesterday…
By Commander Salamander | CDR Salamander Substack Over at WSJ, recent Midrats Podcast guest and former Congressman Mike...
Our Service Academies Are Infected With Marxism
L. Todd Wood, USAFA ’86, sits down with retired US Army Major Chase Spears on Marxism in the service academies and the...
Athletics Exception To Merit-Based Admissions Should Be Removed
By usmadata Secretary of War Pete Hegseth stipulated an athletics admissions exception for West Point and other Service...
VMI targeted by Virginia’s new radical leftist government
Another example of how elections have consequences. Now that the radical leftists are in power in Virginia, one of their...
Paganism Must Be Rooted Out of the Military
By Victoria Manning | Restoration News Pagan worship services are now taking place in Christian chapels on military bases...
Fired Professor Exposes DEI Fraud
Dr. Chase Spears, a retired Army Public Affairs Officer, welcomes Dr. Rick Addante (on STARRS Board of Advisors)—former NASA...
DoD Restoring America’s Fighting Force Task Force (RAFF-TF) – Initial Report to the Secretary of Defense
The March 1, 2025 DOD report on removing CRT/DEI ideology from the military has finally been released. This is the initial...
SecWar removes the oldest DEI program in the federal government—the 8(a) program
In more great news, on Friday Secretary of War Pete Hegseth posted a video on his X account about taking a...
Pentagon vows to reform military newspaper Stars and Stripes, remove ‘woke distractions’
Finally! Next do Military.com By Joseph A. Wulfsohn | Fox News The Department of War announced Thursday it is reforming the...
“Feminization Equals Wokeness”
Watch a 17-minute video of author and commentator Helen Andrews explaining how the feminization of our culture is a cause of...
How DEI Caused a Military Recruitment Crisis
By Mike Gallagher and Kevin Wallsten Op-Ed in the Wall Street Journal In his recent viral essay, “The Lost Generation,”...
Make ‘Star Trek real’. Hegseth vows military AI without woke constraint
By Zac Anderson | USA Today War Secretary Pete Hegseth laid out a plan for advancing military artificial intelligence...
Air Force Academy acting dean asks for refrain on absolute statements about Maduro’s capture
Why the Dean even needs to remind service academy professors not to make negative judgements on a recent US military...
America’s Military Is Back
By Senator Jim Banks As we close out 2025, the Trump Administration has racked up many big wins. But none are as significant...
DEI Resurfaces in the Marine Corps
By Col. Gary Anderson, USMC ret About this time last year The Commandant of the Marine Corps fervently declared that the...
DOD launches review of ‘effectiveness’ of women in ground combat roles
By Tanya Noury | Military Times The Pentagon has launched a formal review of the “effectiveness” of women in ground-combat...
DEI hollowed out a generation — and sapped America’s promise
By Glenn H. Reynolds | New York Post The wholesale adoption of diversity, equity and inclusion ideology in almost all our...
Black Republican calls for total, permanent abolition of DEI: ‘I want to earn every opportunity on merit’
By Alex Nitzberg | Fox News Congressman Wesley Hunt of Texas (West Point 2004 grad) is calling for the complete and...
Congress’ National Defense Plan Misses the Mark. Trump Shouldn’t Sign It
By Doug Truax, USMA’ 92 | Restoration News Congressional Republicans spent the past year vowing to voters that they...
Commander Salamander Reviews “The Lost Generation” Article
By CDR Salamander, US Navy veteran | Substack The above graphic remains one of the most descriptive graphics of our...
NDAA restores women’s policy teams canceled in Pentagon DEI purge
By Hope Hodge Seck | Military Times Days after Pete Hegseth was installed as the Pentagon’s top civilian, some all-volunteer...
The deeper effects of the miserable DEI ideology agenda
Everyone is commenting with their thoughts on the viral article, “The Lost Generation“. This tweet goes deeper...
Brutal Essay Perfectly Describes DEI’s Not-So-Secret Victims
By now you’ve probably heard or read the article, “The Lost Generation,” that has gone completely viral...
Biggest Military Funding Bill Still Allows Promoting Soldiers By Race And Sex
By Col. William A. Woodruff, US Army lawyer, retired Five months ago, in these pages I expressed concern that Congress was...
Purges, Collapse Inside CIA, and the Path to National Recovery
By Lt. General Michael Flynn, USA ret Former Director, Defense Intelligence Agency The aftermath of January 6th must be...
US Military Academies Must Sever Ties With Activist Accrediting Agency
By Victoria Manning | Restoration News As President Donald Trump works to rebuild a merit-driven, combat-ready military, the...
GOP’s 2026 NDAA Doesn’t Go Far Enough for America First Principles
By Victoria Manning | Restoration News Republicans fail to solidify Trump’s important military reforms through...
Our Flag, Education in America, and a School Newspaper
By Lt. Colonel Eric Vogel, USAF ret, USAFA ’73 STARRS Ambassador, Connecticut State Leader How do lectiophiles select...
How the political tide turned on Mark Welsh, the four-star general ousted as Texas A&M president
The continuing saga…. By Kate McGee and Nicholas Gutteridge | The Texas Tribune At first glance, Mark Welsh III’s...
Mothers of MEN
This article highlights a concerning trend that affects the military: men ‘dropping out’. By Geoffrey Ingersoll...
Federal appeals court lets Pentagon reinstate transgender service ban, says judge overstepped military leaders
By Jasmine Baehr, David Spunt, Bill Mears | Fox News A divided federal appeals court on Tuesday allowed the Pentagon to...
Update on how the US Air Force Academy is getting rid of CRT/DEI ideology
At the December 8, 2025 meeting of the Board of Visitors for the US Air Force Academy, a report was presented on how USAFA...
Florida Tech, DEI and Rick Addante’s Fight
STARRS Board of Advisors members Rick Addante, PhD, was interviewed on the Stories of Service podcast hosted by retired Navy...
Navy Public Affairs Officer Speaks Out
Dr. Chase Spears (retired Army Major PAO) welcomes Navy Commander Theresa Carpenter—30-year public affairs veteran, Stories...
The Trust Divide: The Hidden Factor Behind Every American Conflict Today
This explains a lot when trying to talk with or convince someone on the other side and why, as Gen. Rod Bishop often says...
A New Era Of Accountability: Hegseth’s Vision Takes Hold At The Naval Academy
By Douglas Ross, USNA Grad | The Miami Independent In a swift and unflinching move emblematic of the Trump...