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Category - Woke Agenda
A Sailor’s Reflections on Race and the Navy
By Brent Ramsey, Captain, USN, Ret I have previously explained the concept of “shipmate” through the recounting of the Navy...
The Naming Commission Comes for West Point
By Forrest L. Marion, Ph.D., retired U.S. Air Force officer and military historian Created by the fiscal 2021 national...
Weapon of self-destruction: Biden’s obsessive hunt for extremism in the military
By Robert Wilkie Former Secretary of Veterans Affairs and as the undersecretary of defense for personnel and readiness...
How Today’s “Diversity” Damages our Military
By Brig. General Chris Petty, USA, ret Member, STARRS Board of Directors Diversity sounds great. That’s part of the problem...
CMR Challenges New Congress to End Woke-ism in the Military
By Elaine Donnelly President of the Center for Military Readiness (CMR) Member of the STARRS Board of Advisors The armed...
DEI Training: Harmful, Phony, And Expensive
In a NYT op-ed, Jesse Singal says that DEI training sessions are expensive, and either don’t work or are even...
New House ‘Anti-Woke Caucus’ will push back on ‘wokeness tyranny’ in schools, military, govt
A Republican in the House of Representatives will be forming a new caucus to take on “wokeness” across the...
Navy Swats ‘Wokeness’ Claims in Bid to Reach Older Americans Who Could Influence Recruiting
As Navy leaders left another conference behind, one thing that emerged from the Surface Navy Association panels and...
‘Wokeness,’ politicization of the military ‘alarming,’ warns Rep. Michael Waltz
STARRS LTG Rod Bishop is a member of the Heritage Foundation’s National Independent Panel on Military Service and...
68 Percent of Active Duty Military Believe Pentagon Is Politicized
The vast majority of U.S. active duty military members believe the Pentagon has become politicized, according to data...
Go Woke, Become Weak: The Consequences of Lowering Military Recruiting Standards, from a former Commander’s Perspective
By LTC Darin Gaub, USA, ret. The American military in which I served for twenty-eight years continues to struggle to meet...
Thoughts on The (Un)Naming Commission
By Forrest L. Marion, PhD, retired US Air Force officer and military historian The congressionally mandated Naming...
Diversity Is Not Just a Navy Issue
By Captain Guy Higgins, U.S. Navy (Retired) In the August 2022 Proceedings, Navy Lieutenant Commander Aaron Marchant...
Former Green Beret warns of extreme narrative pushed into the military and US institutions
Former Green Beret Ivan Raiklin argued on a recent episode of “Tucker Carlson Today” on Fox Nation that the...
CMR Challenge for 2023: Woke-ism in Our Military
The Center For Military Readiness (CMR) issued their 2023 challenges to Congress. Elaine Donnelly is the president and...
We the People Pulse – How to Increase Army Recruitments?
An op-ed was written on Fox News by a Washington intelligence insider and a marketing academic, both of whom never served in...
Lowering Recruitment Standards in the Military
Recruitment is down throughout all the services, in a large part because of the increasing Marxist/Woke ideology invading...
A Government Woke and Broken
“Today, the Soldier approached his commanding officer to discuss his newly confirmed pregnancy.” The above sentence might...
House Republicans attack Defense Department for ‘woke’ social policies
House Republicans plan to open a new front in the culture wars: attacking the Pentagon for its “woke” social...
These Are The Top 7 Times The Military Went Woke In 2022
By Micaela Burrow, Daily Caller News Foundation The Department of Defense (DOD) doubled down on “woke” initiatives in 2022...
The U.S. Government’s Woke Training
BY WSJ Editorial Board Read instructions from the Army, NASA, the VA, and more, obtained via open-records law. The...
Consequences of Leftist Academics in the Workforce
This explains a lot to what happened to the military and the service academies: An academic critic admitted that he was...
What Biden’s woke military has wrought
By Senator Tom Cotton (former Captain, US Army) and Representative Ashley Hinson The U.S. military should be the ultimate...
China doubles its weapons while DOD spends 6 million hours on extremism, diversity, climate change
“For to win one hundred victories in one hundred battles is not the acme of skills. To subdue the enemy without...
No ‘sir’! Marines mull scrapping gender identifiers in training camps
U.S. Marines may stop saying “sir” and “ma’am” to avoid the risk of “misgendering” drill instructors...
Federal Fealty to Wokeness Weakens American Power
(Heritage Foundation) The Biden administration has imposed an unprecedented dogma on federal employees, from Delta Force to...
Pentagon’s fixation on gender, ‘safe spaces’ evades congressional probe
An investigation into Pentagon policies dealing with gender identity, gender transition and “inclusive” gender...
US Military Going To The Dogs
By Rod Dreher | The American Conservative What the hell is wrong with the culture of the US military? Last week, an...
Saving Military Academies From Wokeness
Legal Insurrection Foundation held an online event: “Saving the Military Service Academies from Wokeness” featuring STARRS...
Our Military Needs Officers Chosen For Their Qualifications, Not Skin Color
By Elaine Donnelly STARRS Board of Advisors he U.S. Supreme Court recently heard oral arguments in two cases challenging...