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Political fights over military make US look weak to China and Russia, experts tell senators
Political bickering over the military makes the United States appear weak to adversaries such as China and Russia and...
Air Force Under Secretary Jones, an LGBTQ Trailblazer, Is Stepping Down
The Air Force’s second-highest ranking civilian, Under Secretary Gina Ortiz Jones, is stepping down from her role...
Army Sees Safety, Not ‘Wokeness,’ as Top Recruiting Obstacle
(AP) While some Republicans blame the COVID-19 vaccine or “wokeness” for the Army’s recruiting woes, the military...
House GOP warns Biden’s policy blunders, China’s spying could worsen ‘alarming’ military recruitment crisis
Four House Republicans, all military veterans, are warning that the Biden administration’s handling of incidents like the...
‘Woke’ U.S. Military Recruitment Video vs China
(CBN News) The U.S. Army’s latest recruitment ad features a soldier who tells about her “two moms” and...
DoD schools diversity chief responds to ‘racism’ claims
The Pentagon official who oversees diversity, equity and inclusion for the Defense Department’s schools is at the center of...
Republicans Raise Concerns over a Historic Painting Covered at U.S. Marine Academy
By Jacob Bliss | Breitbart News Four House Republicans, all of whom attended U.S. military academies, authored a...
Wokeness is weakening the U.S. military
Republican GOP leaders and committee members on Armed Services vowed they’ll look for ways to slash “woke” spending from the...
Pentagon Quietly Expands Woke Transgender Policies in the Military
By Elaine Donnelly President, Center for Military Readiness STARRS Board of Advisors In his State of the Union speech...
Leftists Want a New Civil War
By Tony Lentini, West Point ’71 America’s Civil War, which raged from 1861 to 1865, was by far the bloodiest...
Within Ranks, Trust in Our Military Declines Amid Politicization of National Defense
By Jack Kraemer Service members increasingly are concerned with the growing politicization of the U.S. military, recent...
The establishment is leading the ‘top-down, woke revolution’
Unlike the free-spirit days of the 1960s, when the proverbial revolutionaries on the left were fighting the establishment...
The Spirit of VMI Speaks: Deactivate DEI – A Call to Action
Often described broadly as a form of political correctness, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) is a Marxist doctrine at...
Rep. Roy, Sen. Rubio fight back against the woke politicization of the U.S. military
Congressman Chip Roy (TX-21) on January 31, 2023 introduced the Restoring Military Focus Act, to push back against the...
House GOP targets military ‘wokeness’
Top House Republicans say the Pentagon’s budget will be on the table as Republicans seek to negotiate spending cuts in...
Americans Demand Freedom from Woke Ideology
By Marco Rubio Many of my neighbors in Miami are immigrants from countries wrecked by socialist regimes. They came to...
China is ‘laughing’ as US culture war erodes combat readiness, says former defense secretary
Former Acting Defense Secretary Chris Miller (former Special Forces commander and Green Beret) said China “must be...
House Armed Services press Pentagon on ‘woke’ school admin who made anti-white comments
A House Armed Services subcommittee is pressing the Pentagon about whether it has taken any action against a Defense...
Pentagon salaries for diversity, equity, inclusion staff capped at $31K under Senate bill
A new bill being pushed by Sen. Tom Cotton and Rep. Jim Banks would cap the salaries of any Pentagon employees working...
Pentagon must ditch ‘woke,’ focus on readiness to deter China from taking Taiwan
The chairman of the House Armed Services Subcommittee on Readiness is warning that it’s only a matter of time...
Why Woke Has No Place in Military Service
By Thomas Klocek, USNA ’69 The current climate of being “woke” is all about oneself. It is political correctness on...
Poll: Nearly Seven in 10 Active Service Members Have Witnessed Politicization in U.S. Military
(Heritage Foundation) A new survey of active U.S. military members reveals that 68 percent have witnessed some or a...
Military Must Recruit More Women, Immigrants for the Future Force
Two articles about a recent symposium on the Future of the All-Volunteer, All-Recruited Force held at the Naval War College...
The Usurpation Of Martin Luther King Day
By Scott Sturman, MD, USAFA ’72 STARRS Board of Advisors At the age of thirty-five Dr. Martin Luther King won the Nobel...
US Merchant Marine Academy hides Jesus painting behind curtain after complaint from advocacy group
By Jon Brown | Fox News The U.S. Merchant Marine Academy (USMMA) in Kings Point, New York, has covered up a large painting...
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...