By Greg Salsbury, PhD STARRS Board of Advisors It is as though America has suddenly woken up from a bad dream—ironically and...
Category - Woke Agenda
Weakness, Not Wokeness, Plagues US Generals
By John Hughes, MD, former US Army officer, 4 combat tours of duty in Iraq and Afghanistan, USMA ’96 “The...
“DEI Needs to Be Part of Air Force DNA” Lt General Kevin Schneider
20-year Marine veteran J.T. dissects a video of an Air Force General talking about promoting DEI in the military: Some of...
Pete Hegseth’s War on the Woke: Can He Fix America’s Broken Military?
By Brandon Webb, former Navy Seal | SOFREP It used to be that the military was the last bastion of meritocracy in America...
Trump’s Defense Secretary nominee Hegseth gears up to target Pentagon DEI initiatives
By Steve Richards | Just the News At a time when multiple regional crises are threatening to spiral out of control, Donald...
DEI Training Makes You More Likely to Agree With … Literally Hitler: Study
By Ben Johnson | Washington Stand At the beginning of his administration, President Joe Biden explained why he planned to...
Military priority for Trump: Remove wokeness, restore standards
By Parrish Alford | American Family News President-elect Trump has plans to unilaterally remove transgender troops from the...
Trump Defense Secretary Pick Thinks ‘Marxists Are Our Enemies’
Well, yeah! Isn’t that what the US fought against for decades during the Cold War? Or maybe the writer was born after...
Congressman: Laser-focused on getting rid of DEI in the military
Texas Congressman Wesley Hunt, USMA ’04: “I’m a military guy and getting DEI and getting the woke stuff out of...
Message from Brig. General Christopher “Mookie” Walker
For those who don’t know me, my name is Chris, callsign “Mookie”, Walker and I retired last year as a Brigadier General...
Don’t Believe Anything Leftists Say About DEI
By Laurie Higgins | Break Through with Jeanne Ives (USMA ’87) In all the Thanksgiving busyness, some Americans may...
DEI programs can actually escalate hostility and racial tensions, new study claims
‘Shocked, shocked I am.’ By David Propper | New York Post Diversity, Equity and Inclusion programs popular in...
US Naval Academy on Trial for Unconstitutional Use of Race in Admissions (Part 2 of 3): The Witnesses
By Capt. Charles “Cully” Stimson, US Navy JAG Corps, ret Can the U.S. Naval Academy continue to use race and ethnicity in...
DoD Needs This Change Agent
By S.L. Nelson Served from the tactical to strategic level as a military officer Success in today’s world favors smart...
Rebuilding our Warrior Class
Seb Gorka talks to Trump advisor Robert Wilkie about President Trump’s plans to save the military from DEI.
U.S. Service Academies Must End Race-Based Admissions
By Senator Todd Young, USNA ’95, former Captain in the USMC Ending racial preferences at America’s service academies...
Let’s Make the Air Force Academy Soar Once More
By Patrick “Kit” Bobko, USAF veteran, USAFA ’91 Here are five things to make the venerable institution, which has struggled...
Defense contractors embracing DEI could be target of Trump’s second term
By Cami Mondeaux | Washington Examiner Defense contractors that have embraced diversity, equity, and inclusion policies...
Maj. Gen. (Ret.) Joseph Arbuckle’s Call for Military Reform in a Post-Biden Era
On the show “Washington Watch with Tony Perkins”, guest host Rep. Mark Alford interviews STARRS Vice Chairman...
Dismantle DEI Act Passes Out of House Oversight Committee
(Press Release) Congressman Michael Cloud’s (R-TX) bill, the Dismantle DEI Act, passed out of the House Oversight Committee...
Should women serve in combat? Military experts weigh in
By Peter Pinedo | Fox News President-elect Donald Trump’s pick to lead the Defense Department, Pete Hegseth, is facing a...
Cognitive Diversity and Constitutional Values in Today’s Military: A Conversation with Navy Veterans from the Calvert Task Group
STARRS & Stripes host Commander Al Palmer, USN ret, leads a thought-provoking discussion that challenges current...
DEI’s Impact on our Military with West Point Grad Meaghan Mobbs
By Patrice Onwuka | Philanthropy Roundtable America’s military has been known as the greatest in the world, but over the...
4 Messes Trump Will Have to Mop Up from Biden’s Military Fails
By Suzanne Bowdey | Washington Stand While the media is hyperventilating over Pete Hegseth’s tattoos and Donald Trump’s...
Here’s How The Trump Admin Can Purge DEI From America’s Military And Foreign Policy
By Spencer Lindquist | The Daily Wire From “anti-racism” trainings to bans on “misgendering,” the Biden administration made...
Need to be able to have a conversation about women in the infantry
Secretary of Defense-designee Pete Hegseth has opened up a needed conversation about women in the infantry and ground combat...
Erik Prince: U.S. Military in a “very, very dangerous place,” needs new leadership
Blackwater founder Erik Prince joined Will Cain to diagnose the issues within the U.S. Military from going...
Purdy Statement to USNA Board of Visitors
To: The Honorable C. A. “Dutch” Ruppersberger (D-MD) Chairman U. S. Naval Academy Board of Visitors -and...
SECDEF Austin’s Woke Destruction of Reconciliation Memorial
By Lt. Col. Edwin L. Kennedy, Jr, US Army ret and Ms Lunnelle Sigel Of all the woke agenda advanced by the Biden-Harris...
Congressman: Hegseth Must Reform ‘Woke’ Military
Look at the list below of 25 woke examples in the military starting in 2021. By Ben Johnson | Washington Stand As Democrats...
How To Get The DEI Out Of DOD
By Morgan Murphy | The Daily Caller News Foundation Morgan Murphy is a military thought leader, former press secretary to...
Pete Hegseth Could Bring An End To DEI In The Military As Defense Sec
By Spencer Lindquist | Daily Wire Conservatives are optimistic that Pete Hegseth will purge left-wing ideology from the...
SecDef Pete Hegseth Will Be a Welcome Injection of Vitamin I (Infantry)
By Col. Kurt Schlichter, USA ret | Town Hall While the nomination of Pete Hegseth stunned me at first, upon further...
Naval Academy Professor fluent in DEI and male-shaming
By STARRS Brad Johnson is a Professor of Psychology in the Department of Leadership, Ethics and Law at the United States...
MacArthur Society on Dr. Steve Turley Show
MacArthur Society Board Member Matthew Newgent, USMA ’96, was on Dr. Steve Turley’s show discussing the work of...
Space Force commander vows to end DEI training in military after being fired for criticizing Marxist CRT/DEI agenda in DOD
By Rob Waugh | The Daily Mail A former space commander is on a mission to root out DEI training so American soldiers...
Recommending Brig. Gen. Schwalier for the Air Force ‘Plucking Board’
By Forrest L. Marion, Ph.D. Retired U.S. Air Force officer and military historian In the mid-1990s, Brig. Gen. Terryl J...
How Pete Hegseth as Defense Secretary Could Transform DoDEA
By Max Eden and Amy Haywood | American Enterprise Institute Pete Hegseth being nominated for defense secretary wasn’t on our...
USNA dodged the bullet by uninviting this unhinged speaker
If you recall from previous articles on this site (see below), author and historian Ruth Ben-Ghiat was scheduled to be the...
Biden Promotes DEI-Pushing Air Force Officials On His Way Out The Door
By Shawn Fleetwood | The Federalist As his disastrous presidency comes to a close, Joe Biden promoted several Air Force...
Air Force Academy official forms refer to Fathers and Mothers as “Non-Birthing Parents”
By STARRS Utah’s Senator Mike Lee posted on X that he had recently spoken with the father of a U.S. Air Force Academy...
Pete Hegseth will de-woke the Pentagon and restore the military’s mission
By Andrew Cherkasky and Katie Cherkasky Authors of the book, “Woke Warriors: How the Left Is Destroying America’s...
Huckabee to Newsmax: Hegseth Will Boot Woke From Military
By Mark Swanson | Newsmax Mike Huckabee, who was recently chosen to be ambassador to Israel by President-elect Donald Trump...
Naval Academy Graduate Charged with Hate Crime After Pride Flag Ripped from Annapolis Shop
By Luke Parker | Catonsville Times A Naval Academy graduate was charged with a hate crime Saturday after a tattoo shop in...
Military Leadership Indoctrinated by DEI?
Tom Fitton of Judicial Watch talks about the military, including Judicial Watch’s recent FOIAs of the service...
The DEI industrial complex is about to be destroyed
By Jim Breslo | World Net Daily President-elect Donald Trump has promised the “largest deportation operation in...
A Conversation with USAF Brigadier General Christopher “Mookie” Walker
In this episode of STARRS & Stripes, host CDR Al Palmer, USN ret, talks with retired Air Force Brigadier General...
Modern Warriors Veterans Panel with Hegseth and Lohmeier
STARRS Executive Vice President Matt Lohmeier was on Pete Hegseth’s Modern Warriors live show on Veteran’s Day...
Where Americans Stand on NDAA 2025 issues: DEI, Climate Change and Foreign Aid
Another signal. Resonate, an AI platform tracking public sentiment provides this report showing most Americans want to get...
USAFA Grad Congressman Pfluger Demands DOD Re-Affirm First Amendment After USAFA-SJSU Shirt Controversy
By Dan Zaksheske | Outkick Last month, OutKick exclusively reported that an Air Force Academy graduate was denied entry...