By Max Eden | American Enterprise Institute (AEI) Two years ago, when such things still surprised some people...
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Military Continues to Drop Standards to Reach Recruitment Goals
By Sarah Holliday | The Washington Stand The military has been struggling to meet recruitment goals since COVID...
CMR Challenge to Congress – Let’s Do More in 2024
By Elaine Donnelly, President Center for Military Readiness View this report as a PDF In 2023 the 118th Congress proposed...
Internal Documents Shed Light On Biden Administration’s Plan To Impose DEI On Pentagon-Run Schools
By Micaela Burrow | The Daily Caller News Foundation The Department of Defense agency that runs schools for military...
‘A Huge Blow’: Decline In White Recruits Fueling The Military’s Worst-Ever Recruiting Crisis, Data Shows
By Micaela Burrow | The Daily Caller News Foundation Each U.S. military service saw a notable decline in white recruits...
What DEI research concludes about diversity training: it is divisive, counter-productive, and unnecessary
“When it comes to harmony and tolerance, DEI does not make things better, but it can make things worse.” So why...
Meet Dr. Kathleen Hicks – SecDef Austin’s Presumptive Replacement Woke Deep-Stater
By Bob Bishop | Sonar21 Lloyd Austin underwent an invasive surgical procedure called a prostatectomy for his prostate...
UK Defence Secretary Grant Shapps: Woke policies are divisive
By UK Defence Secretary Grant Shapps I am a strong believer that our Armed Forces should represent the people they serve...
U.K. defense chief vows to stamp out distracting ‘woke culture’ in armed forces
WOW, let’s hope someday a smart American defense chief will do the same thing! By Mike Glenn | Washington Times In...
Sports and the Military
By Capt. Brent Ramsey, US Navy ret STARRS Board of Advisors The largest U.S. sports attract 200+ million fans, generating...
“DEI itself is racist because reverse racism is racism”
The continuing education of a liberal who has awakened to the true nature of the DEI agenda. Bill Ackman’s original...
British Flag Officers: Remove DEI ideology from British Armed Forces
This letter was posted on X (Twitter). The woke mind virus has infected more than just the American military, and retired...
The Hostile Takeover of the Air Force Academy
By Scott Sturman, MD, USAFA ’72 STARRS Board of Advisors The transformation of the Air Force Academy (AFA) from a...
Pentagon Secretly Institutionalized DEI In Its K-12 Public Schools
Another important investigation, this time by government watchdog OpenTheBooks who followed up on their previous...
Briefings for DACODAI Committee
The Defense Advisory Committee on Diversity and Inclusion (DACODAI) was set up in September 2022 by SECDEF Austin to...
The Architects of the Woke U.S. Military: Military Woke Complex
This important investigation by Fred Lucas of the Capital Research Center exposes a “band of nonprofits—some very well...
Women Opt To Reenlist In The Marine Corps At Higher Rates Than Men
But the bigger question is why are men deciding not to stay? “My son, who wanted to be a Marine his entire youth, left after...
Air Force Resorts To Recruiting Retirees Due To ‘Critical Manning Shortages’
Look for your letter in the mail. By Micaela Burrow | The Daily Caller News Foundation The Air Force will open its ranks...
Members Of Congress Call On VA To Reject Proposal For ‘Gender Affirming Surgical Center’
By Micaela Burrow | The Daily Caller News Foundation Members of Congress are calling on the Department of Veterans Affairs...
“It’s about what you do and who you are, NOT about what you look like.”
DOD’s DVIDS is trotting out its obligatory Black History Month stories. Here is a snippet from an article that shows...
Leftist “Newspeak”: Why Words and Definitions Matter
By CDR Breck Henderson, US Navy veteran, nuclear submarines Writes “The Truth Is Out There” Substack I have to...
Politics Ruins Readiness
By Capt. Brent Ramsey, US Navy ret STARRS Board of Advisors Navy Mission: “The United States is a maritime nation, and the U...
Air Force: “Please join us for a Microaggressions course”
Well you missed it. Last Saturday an Air Force wing invited all airmen to attend a “Microaggressions” course as...
Talking About DEI in the Military
This was an Opinion Letter in the Iowa newspaper, Keokuk Daily Gate City. Write articles to your local newspapers and help...
United Airlines CEO Scott Kirby instigated bullying of unvaxxed employees, lawsuit alleges
By Doug Mainwaring | LifeSite News A lawsuit brought against United Airlines (UAL) by employees — who say the airline...
Scott Kirby is NOT the kind of leader who should be inspiring future officers
Ken Delfino, US Navy, ret Regarding USAFA NCLS speaker Scott Kirby: I am a second generation United Air Lines (UAL) retiree...
Is a Drag Queen CEO the Right Choice to Be Speaking at This Air Force Academy Symposium?
By Patrick “Kit” Bobko, USAFA ’91, USAF veteran There was a collective gasp among some U.S. Air Force Academy (USAFA) grads...
SCOTUS West Point Ruling Analysis
By Scott McQuarrie, USMA ’72 President, Veterans for Fairness and Merit SCOTUS’ ruling yesterday was, given the state...
Tone Deaf: USAFA Names as NCLS Speaker Woke United CEO who blew up Twitter
After the door blew out on a passenger jet, a video was posted on Twitter of United Air Lines President Scott Kirby (USAFA...
Explicit Graphic Book in USAFA DEI Reading Room
The popular X account “Libs of TikTok” recently posted disgusting book that was in the Tulsa school system...
BOOK REVIEW: The Virtue of Color-Blindness by Andre Archie
By Lt Col Eric M. Vogel, USAF ret, USAFA ’73 The Virtue of Color-Blindness, by Andre Archie Have you ever hoped to find a...
Supreme Court Lets West Point Keep Using Race in Admissions
Once again, West Point is allowed to be racists The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday declined a request to block the U.S...
Access to Abortion Drug is a National Security Issue, Former Top Military Officials Claim in Legal Filing
Stunning in all its implications; there are no words…. Former secretaries of the Army, Navy and Air Force as well as...
Conservative Families Whose Kids Fight Our Wars Have A Lot More On The Line This Election
By Garrett Hayes, former U.S. Air Force officer . . . . Republican voters in particular should consider that based on a...
West Point defends race-based admissions as Supreme Court weighs emergency petition
West Point defended using race in its admissions process in response to a student group’s request that the Supreme...
DEI Should Be M.I.A. in the U.S. Military
By Erec Smith The historic Supreme Court ruling to end affirmative action in college admissions was one of the biggest...
Lt. Col. Matthew Lohmeier: Does US Have a Fighting Force?
Lt Col Matthew Lohmeier, USAF fighter pilot and a former space-based missile warning squadron commander with the US Space...
Military Readiness And Morale
By Robert Charles, former naval intelligence officer (USNR) Former Assistant Secretary of State under Colin Powell, former...
Docs Reveal VA Hospital’s Plan To Ramp Up Sex Change Surgeries, Double Down On Gender Ideology
By Micaela Burrow and Megan Brock | The Daily Caller News Foundation A Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) facility in...
White Americans are Quiet Quitting our Leading Institutions
By Jeremy Carl | American Greatness As the work-from-home trend took off during the COVID-19 pandemic, the term “quiet...
Male Airmen Wearing Earrings?
In a recent letter to the Air and Space Forces magazine, an airman wrote a letter in such convoluted DEI prose that it would...
Therapy Dogs Bring Smiles at USAFA; Reduce Cadet Stress
(Air Force Academy Press Release) Cadet 3rd Class Nicolina Brown said she loves Go Team Therapy Crisis and Airport Dogs so...
DEI Poisons The Air Force Academy
By Scott Sturman, MD, USAFA ’72 STARRS Board of Advisors I came to the Air Force Academy (AFA) in 1968 from Wyoming...
No diploma? No problem! Navy again lowers requirements as it struggles to meet recruitment goals
The U.S. Navy is starting to enlist individuals who didn’t graduate from high school or get a GED, marking the second time...
DEI Activism On USAA’s Board Of Directors
By Scott Sturman, MD USAFA ’72 STARRS Board of Advisors In mid 2023 the United Services Automobile Association (USAA)...
Student Group Files Emergency Petition With Supreme Court Over West Point Race-Based Admissions
By Kate Anderson | The Daily Caller News Foundation Students for Fair Admissions (SFFA) filed an emergency petition with...
US Supreme Court is asked to stop West Point from considering race in admissions
A group opposed to affirmative action on Friday asked the Supreme Court to block the U.S. Military Academy at West Point...
Focusing in on race emphasizes differences in a profession where unity and cohesiveness are paramount
Parts of a recent email from STARRS Chairman Lt. Gen. Rod Bishop (USAF, ret) to another General: . . . . The words behind...
Graphics to Use to Explain the Threat
STARRS has created two infographics you can download and use to explain the connection of the DEI agenda to Marxism, and...
STARRS finally receives response from USAFA re a 2021 FOIA but 38 out of 48 pages are redacted
USAFA has something to hide? What are they, the CIA? On January 16, 2024, USAFA responded to STARRS FOIA 2021-03598-F, filed...