By Larry Purdy, USNA ’68 Abstract While the thousands upon thousands of dedicated military officers do not share the...
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West Point Grad to Trump: As you de-woke the military, pay attention to Generals placed in Academies and ROTC and the curriculum there
West Point graduate and 4th generation Army veteran Alisha Houston asked President Trump a question during a recent town...
West Point Selectively Censors Information in Violation of Federal Law
By Tony Lentini, ’71 Military.com recently carried a story on a West Point cadet facing charges for sexual harassment...
Honor Is Sine Qua Non
By pyrene In the article in Military Review Online Exclusive (September 2024) “West Point 2050: How the U.S. Military...
Thoughts on West Point 2050
By pyrene (1) The article in Military Review Online Exclusive (September 2024) “West Point 2050: How the U.S. Military...
Inflection Point for West Point and the Army
By James Atticus Bowden US Army ret, USMA ’72 Recently, the Superintendent and Dean at West Point wrote “the Army and...
Army Hit With Lawsuit After Stonewalling Inquiries Into West Point’s Removal Of Iconic Mission Statement
By Jake Smith | The Daily Caller News Foundation The Army was hit with a lawsuit on Friday after ignoring transparency...
West Point Needs a Reset, Part 2: In Their Own Words
By Tony Lentini, USMA ’71 See West Point Needs a Reset, Part 1 On Sept. 12, Real Clear Defense published my...
Congressman Keith Self, West Point Class of 1975: Barack Obama Does Not Embody Duty, Honor, Country
By Lt Col. Keith Self, US Army ret, USMA ’75 Current Member of Congress serving the Texas 3rd District The Colonel...
West Point grad who wrote ‘Communism will Win’ under military cap is now a Ph.D. candidate at UT Austin
By Emma Dayton | Campus Reform A West Point graduate who first made headlines for his “Communism will win” message written...
American universities are rebranding DEI departments instead of eliminating them, study finds
This is what happened to the West Point DEI office, they renamed it to the “Office of Engagement and Retention.”...
West Point Needs a Reset
By Tony Lentini, USMA ’71 When I attended West Point back in the late ‘60s and early ‘70s, cadets used to joke that we got a...
Goldwater Teams Up with Prof. Richard Epstein to Challenge Biden Admin’s Military Academy Power Grab
(Goldwater Institute) Joining forces with renowned legal scholar Richard A. Epstein, the Goldwater Institute filed a...
Marxist Indoctrination and Infiltration at West Point
Col. Rob Maness, USAF ret, interviewed Matthew Newgent, USMA ’96, and member of the MacArthur Society of West Point...
Your MacArthur Society Fact-Finding Visit to West Point . . . Ah, Not So Fast
By Col. Bill Prince, US Army ret, USMA ’70 President of the MacArthur Society of West Point Graduates MacArthur...
The Corrupting Influence of DEI on Military Education
By CDR J.A. Cauthen, USN ret, USNA ’02 By now, the diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) industry’s capture of...
Duty, Honor, Country replaced by Diversity, Equity, Inclusion
Letter to the Editor of the Connecticut Examiner by Colleen Roberts, a STARRS Supporter To the Editor: Are Duty, Honor...
Is DEI at West Point Cultural Marxism?
The American Security Council Foundation’s Peace Through Strength podcast host Joy Votrobek and cohost Laurence...
West Point’s DEI Office Changes Name to “Office of Engagement and Retention”
The West Point Office of “Diversity, Inclusion and Equal Opportunity” is now called the “Office of...
MacArthur Society – Save West Point!
Matthew Newgent (USMA’96), board member of the MacArthur Society of West Point Graduates was interviewed by CDM Media...
West Point Grads Discuss Issues at the Military Academy
Jeanne Ives ’87, host of “The Real Story with Jeanne Ives” show interviews Matthew Newgent, ’96...
US Military Academies Producing Beauty Queens
Really?? Sign of things getting quite off track at the academies. From Task & Purpose: The women who wear the crowns...
Concerns I Have About West Point’s Ability to Accomplish Its Mission in Our Constitutional Republic
By LTC Victor Roeske, US Army ret USMA ’74 To: West Point Board of Visitors (BOV) From: Victor Roeske, West Point...
DEI, Critical Race Theory Pervades Military Trainings: Report
By Megan Rosevear | The College Fix Diversity, equity and inclusion and critical race theory topics now pervade U.S. Armed...
Liars Must Have No Connection to West Point
By Major General Paul Vallely, USA, Ret, USMA ’61 Tony Lentini, USMA ’71 Thirteen unequivocal words, simple and...
A Cadet and a Gentleman
A May 1960 letter to a West Point candidate from the Corps of Cadets: (click to enlarge) UNITED STATES CORPS OF CADETS West...
Judicial Watch Sues Defense Department for Records about Deletion of ‘Duty, Honor, Country’ From West Point Mission Statement
(Press Release) Judicial Watch announced today it filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit against the U.S...
West Point Lecture Halls turned into Indoctrination Seminars
The experience of a West Point grad in dealing with the woke agenda at the Academy and in the military is detailed in Pete...
West Point Officer Arraigned on Charges of Drinking with Cadets, Violating No-Contact Orders
By Steve Beynon | Military.com A top West Point officer is facing a series of charges related to sexual misconduct...
The Military Academies and a Biden Power Grab
By Richard A. Epstein | Wall Street Journal A lame-duck President Trump appointed Heidi Stirrup to a three-year term on...
West Point Teaches Lies
By “pyrene” West Point’s Cadet Honor Code says, “A cadet will not lie, steal, cheat, or tolerate those who do.”...
2024 Thayer Award: What was the AOG Thinking?
By Richard Kline, USMA 1967 The woke forces in government are deeply entrenched. There are more of them than can be...
Sparks Fly As Republicans & Dems Clash Over Affirmative Action Ban For U.S. Military Academy Admissions
At last week’s House Armed Services Committee hearing mark up for the NDAA, lawmakers debated an amendment barring...
Obama To Receive 2024 Sylvanus Thayer Award
West Point’s decision to give their honored Thayer award (given to General MacArthur in 1962) to man whom his college...
Now West Point is Graduating Beauty Queens
Here’s the THIRD Beauty Queen from a military academy recently and to boot, she’s “committed” to DEI...
Rep. Banks Passes Amendment to End Racial Discrimination at Military Academies
(Press Release) Today, Chairman of the House Armed Services Military Personnel Subcommittee Jim Banks passed an amendment to...
West Point’s Brand Is Gay
By USMA Data West Point Admissions & Data Insights A while back we got a takedown notice for our use of the West Point...
Update to West Point Cadet Projects
UPDATE to this post: West Point Cadet Projects: Deconstructing Patriotism and Cross-Dressing in the Military According to...
West Point 2025 Diversity and Inclusion Studies Courses
Spot the CRT/DEI agenda in these courses offered to West Point cadets in 2025 who choose, for whatever unknown reason, to...
West Point Cadet Projects: Deconstructing Patriotism and Cross-Dressing in the Military
Former Virginia Congressman and Navy Seal Scott Taylor tweeted a photo of a list of classes he said are being taught at West...
Testimony – Scott McQuarrie
Testimony from member of the Military Readiness and Merit Coalition, Scott McQuarrie, USMA ’72 and President of...
Statement to DACODAI – Scott McQuarrie
Statement to DACODAI by Scott McQuarrie, USMA ’72, President of Veterans for Fairness & Merit A RECOMMENDATION FOR...
Our Service Academies Must Discard Race-Based Admissions
By Lawrence Purdy, USNA ’68 Eliminating racial discrimination means eliminating all of it… [T]he Equal Protection Clause …...
West Point Grad: Diversity chief who espoused anti-American ‘Marxist dogma’ will ‘destroy the State Department’
USMA 1986 grad Mike Pompeo (#1 in his class) on the State Department–which represents America to the...
West Point ’64 grad says ‘Duty, Honor, Country’ saved him and his soldiers in Vietnam
By Dan Chalk | Midland Daily News In the view of retired U.S. Army Captain Michael Miller of Midland, the late Gen...
Around the Naval Academy
The U.S. Naval Academy hosted all the Supes at the annual Conference of Service Academy Superintendents (COSAS) with tours...
Everything is Wonderful at West Point
By pyrene, a USMA grad On 11 March 2024, the Superintendent of the United States Military Academy at West Point, NY sent a...
What exactly are “Army Values?”
By Capt. Gene Thomas Gomulka, US Navy ret In 1992, while serving as the Deputy Chaplain of the U.S. Marine Corps, I was...
USMA Supe briefs Class Leaders re Mission Statement Change – “Build[ing]” Diversity Creeps into the Mission Statement
By Scott McQuarrie, USMA ’72 President, Veterans for Fairness & Merit USMA’s Supe briefed class leaders on 3/19...
Answers to Questions re Service Academy Admissions and a Change to the Mission Statement
By Scott McQuarrie, USMA ’72 President, Veterans for Fairness and Merit A USNA grad emailed some perceptive questions...