By Mike Gonzales, Heritage Foundation Replacing the officer class of police and military ranks with politicized ideologues...
Category - Woke Agenda
The military is running a contest for ideas about improving recruitment
By Andrea Widburg, American Thinker If you act quickly, you can enter the joint Modern War Institute and US Army Training...
Not Anymore: Why I no longer recommend military service
By Tony Lentini, USMA ’71 Just back from Normandy, where 9,387 Americans who lost their lives in the D-Day invasion...
Pentagon Officials Worked To Finalize Climate Plan During Botched Afghanistan Withdrawal, Emails Show
In the midst of the Biden administration’s disastrous military withdrawal from Afghanistan, top Pentagon officials were...
How Demoralization Undercuts Recruitment
By Richard Epstein, Hoover Fellow The United States military position is of increasing vulnerability as the Army, Navy, and...
Wokeness in Our Military Weakens It
By James H. “Smokey” Shott, Bluefield Daily Telegraph Last July a retired U.S. Army general spoke to an audience on the...
Here’s What Naval Academy Students Are Learning In Their Gender And Sexuality Class
WHY IN THE WORLD does a war-fighting military academy need a specialist in “Gender and Sexuality Studies”...
Military targets Alaska-based Airmen with radical ‘woke’ diversity trainings
By Joel Davidson, Alaska Watchman Alaska-based airmen at both JBER and Eielson Air Force Base are undergoing systematic...
Federal diversity officers (political commissars) get caught up in ‘woke’ political fights
Since the Biden administration urged federal agencies to name designated leaders to spearhead diversity, equity and...
Racism in America Today: A Real or Manufactured Problem?
Is racism in America today a real or manufactured problem? Was America built on racism? Or in spite of it? Is it racism or...
The Army is tired of of being used as guinea pigs for social experimentation
The following was written in December 2016 by an Army paratrooper who was in Ramadi in 2006 and had four more deployments...
Sen. Tommy Tuberville to Oppose Woke Military Generals in Standoff with DOD
Alabama Sen. Tommy Tuberville told Breitbart News in an exclusive statement on Thursday he plans to oppose specific military...
The Marxist March Through America’s Military: Enough Is Enough, Silence Is Consent
Retired Air Force Col. Rob Maness talks with retired Navy Captain Tom Burbage on The Rob Maness Show: The evidence is...
USAA’s Disregard for Members’ Concerns Is a Mark of Failed Leadership
By Dr. Scott Sturman, MD US Air Force Academy ’72 The United Services Automobile Association’s (USAA) extreme emphasis on...
Biden Pushes These 4 Woke Military Officers for Promotion as Sen. Tuberville Holds Firm
Generals who focus on diversity, equity, and inclusion, lecture a “white colonel” about the need for more diverse officers...
‘Woke’ sex-ed being foisted on next generation of AF officers
By J.M. Phelps American Family News spoke with Air Force Lt. Gen. (Ret.) Rod Bishop, chairman of Stand Together Against...
USAFA Mandates Radical Leftist Gender Training
By Lt. General Rod Bishop, USAF ret Chairman of the Board Stand Together Against Racism and Radicalism in the Services, Inc...
The Decline and Fall of a Once Great Company
By Dr. Scott Sturman, MD US Air Force Academy ’72 On August 25, 2023, the United Services Automobile Association (USAA) will...
Deputy Secretary of Defense Kathleen H. Hicks’ Roundtable Meeting With West Point Cadets on Climate & Resilience
(DOD Press Release) Deputy Secretary of Defense Kathleen Hicks met via Zoom today with cadets and a newly-commissioned...
‘Woke’ Pentagon Spending at Center of Upcoming Government Shutdown Fight
Risk of a government shutdown this fall is rising after a powerful bloc of House conservatives vowed to oppose any stopgap...
The Women in Army Special Forces Report reads like a soap opera
U.S. Army Special Operations Command recently release a survey report called, “BREAKING BARRIERS: Women in Army...
FY 2024 House Appropriations Bills Take New Steps to Dismantle the Woke and Weaponized Bureaucracy
Heritage Foundation Report President Joe Biden has spent the past two years dramatically expanding and weaponizing the woke...
‘Disqualifying’: GOP Senator’s Hold On Pentagon Nominees Is Keeping Out Left-Wing ‘Diversity’ Advocates
By Jack Smith, Daily Caller News Foundation A number of the Pentagon’s military nominees currently blocked by Republican...
Sen. Tuberville’s Courageous Fight to Expose the Left’s Politicization of Our Nation’s Armed Forces
By Lt. Col. Matt Crouch, USMC ret The criticisms of Senator Tommy Tuberville’s holds on Department of Defense promotions are...
Gen. Dunford doesn’t get it
Retired Marine Gen. Joseph F. Dunford Jr., the 19th chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff under Obama, recently wrote an op...
Mark Milley: A ‘Handful of Drag Queen Shows’ on Military Bases Doesn’t Mean Military ‘Went Woke’
Rather clueless “A handful of drag queen shows” on military bases doesn’t mean that the military...
Air Force Colonel in Line for Promotion Preaches DEI Agenda, Endorses CRT Book
In the weeks following George Floyd’s death in 2020, a U.S. Air Force officer—currently awaiting promotion to brigadier...
The Military Recruiting Crisis and Gen Z
Four college students wrote short essays about what would help military recruitment in The Wall Street Journal’s...
STARRS Col. Tracey Meck interview on Frontlines of Freedom
STARRS member of the Chairman’s Group, Colonel Tracey Meck, USAF ret, and 1987 graduate of the US Air Force Academy...
A tale of two VMIs
By Carmen Villani, Jr. Virginia Military Institute 1976 Letter to the Editor of Cardinal News: Ms. Rowan’s coverage of the...
Holding the Pentagon to Account: Interview with Sen. Tuberville
By Dave Patterson Retired U.S. Air Force Pilot with over 180 combat missions in Vietnam Former Principal Deputy Under...
Eight Questions for USAA Board of Directors Concerning the DEI Agenda
STARRS Letter to the Board of Directors of USAA: Vice Admiral James M. Zortman, USN, Retired Chairman of the Board, USAA c/o...
Arlington National Cemetery Wants to Know What You Think About Removing Its Confederate Memorial
In 1914, President Woodrow Wilson unveiled the Confederate Memorial at Arlington National Cemetery. Created by Confederate...
Biden wants a climate-fighting military, not war fighting
By Senator Joni Ernst Retired Lt. Colonel in the Iowa Army National Guard Last year, on Earth Day, President Biden proudly...
USAFA Graduate Michael Rose Letter to CEO of Association of Graduates
By Michael Rose, USAFA ’69 STARRS General Counsel Read the letter below or in PDF format: Letter to Mike Gould from...
The DEI threat to our military academies
Editorial by the Washington Examiner The U.S. military’s failure to prepare adequately to protect the nation’s security is...
Does LTG Gilland (West Point Supe) Hate WW2 Veterans?
By John Hughes, MD, USMA ’96 Veteran of Haiti, Iraq, Afghanistan President of MacArthur Society of West Point...
Pentagon Doubles Down Stance On Abortion Travel Policy As Major Vacancies Mount
Abortion as “health care” — DOD using the Leftist narrative. The above pin from Planned Parenthood was worn by...
After Supreme Court victory, anti-affirmative action group turns to military academy exemption
The group that took its case against affirmative action in college admissions to the U.S. Supreme Court and won is seeking...
Defunding Division
By CDR Salamander For decades, and for the best of reasons at least in the beginning, the US military and its educational...
STARRS Reacts to USAA‘s Expanding DEI Role
On August 25, 2023, the United Services Automobile Association (USAA) will hold its annual meeting. While the current agenda...
10 Shocking Examples Of Wokeism In The U.S. Military
By Aaron Flanigan, AMAC Earlier this year, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Mark Milley—previously branded by...
American public waking up to bitter divorce over ‘woke’ armed forces
By J. M. Phelps, American Family News According to a recent Gallup poll, the public is paying attention to those failures:...
Save America’s Military from Radical Transformation
The U.S. military, traditionally a symbol of strength, unity, and commitment to national security, has been facing a...
General, West Point Professor Ran Shadow Investigation to Hunt Down and Silence Military Whistleblower for Mean Tweets
By Kristina Wong, Breitbart News An Army three-star general and a West Point associate professor used government resources...
Editorial Board got it wrong: McCarthy is not extremist on military bill
Good example of writing a letter to the Editor or an op-ed to your local news media: By John Gerardi The defense bill that...
Propaganda, Politicization Making Military Service Less Popular
Matthew Lohmeier, a former military commander, told NTD that a big reason why the U.S. military is not able to meet its...
Diversity Efforts in Military Academies Dividing the Military, Expert Says
Efforts to promote diversity, equity, and inclusion—or DEI—in military academies have met with opposing views. Some are...
Pentagon chief of personnel, diversity and inclusion to depart
The Defense Department’s head of personnel and readiness announced his upcoming departure from the Pentagon on Monday...
Comparison of an Email Written by Gen Clark in June 2023 vs Congressional Testimony In July 2023
June 2023 Gen Clark Email a Day After UNC/Harvard Supreme Court Decision Lt. Gen. Clark’s 6/30/23 email...