By Col. William Connor, USA ret The Citadel, ’90 Member, Citadel Board of Visitors With military recruitment and...
Category - Woke Agenda
DEI Executive Order Expands Diversity Industrial Complex, Harming Meritocracy in the Military
By Elaine Donnelly STARRS Board of Advisors Founder and President of the Center for Military Readiness On February...
Merit and Preferences: Never the Twain Shall Meet
By John Cauthen, USNA ’02 Active member of the Calvert Group, which collaborates with STARRS Diversity, as commonly...
DIE Means the Death of Military Professionalism
By John Cauthen, USNA ’02 Active member of the Calvert Group, which collaborates with STARRS...
As China War Looms, Navy’s Priority is Going ‘Green’
. . . “As the Secretary of the Navy, I can tell you that I have made climate one of my top priorities since the first day I...
PRC Military Discovers How to Defeat US Military
In this official training video for the People’s Liberation Army, Chinese soldiers are taught how to cripple U.S...
Strange manifestations of DOD’s embrace of DEI damages the Army and hurts recruiting
Watch or read this exchange between Rep. Matt Gaetz and the stunning tone-deaf things Secretary of the Army Christine...
Senate Democrats Vote to Force Americans to Fund Military Abortions
Senate Democrats voted down a bill sponsored by a pro-life Republican that would stop illegal taxpayer funding of abortion...
Merit Over Identity
Replace “university” with “military”: — The following is adapted from Heather MacDonald’s...
Critical Race Theorists Admit Their Revolution Is Failing
It was a bit cognitively dissonant last month when some of the best-known merchants of critical race theory began whining...
The military is converting to electric vehicles on bases, but charging them remains a challenge
The Department of Defense has mandated all military branches to convert their fleets of non-combat vehicles from gas powered...
West Point think tank worries about racial biases in drone strikes
The Modern War Institute at West Point published on their website an article by by two Army LT Colonels entitled, “Do...
These Are the Voices That Get Lost In the ‘Woke Military’ Debate
By Kathleen Anderson, USAF ret I served in the Air Force for over 20 years. Anyone who has worn the uniform knows that to...
The US Military Is Losing the Woke War
By Col. J. Wesley Smith, USA (ret) The United States Armed Forces exist for two primary missions: to prevent war and to...
How the nation’s Corps of Marines has lost its way
By Maj. Gen. James Livingston, USMC (ret) and Col. Jay Vargas, USMC (ret) The United States Marine Corps is facing...
Pentagon Diversity Degrades Meritocracy
By Forrest L. Marion, Ph.D. Retired U.S. Air Force officer and military historian Recently, “Real Time” host Bill Maher came...
Be All You Can Be
New Army ads emphasize winning, but under the Biden junta the possibilities for losing are truly limitless. In the run-up to...
Rep. DesJarlais Blames ‘Woke-ism And DEI’ For Military Recruiting Shortfalls
Rep. Scott DesJarlais questioned the US Secretary of Defense, Lloyd Austin, and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen...
DoD’s highest-ranking trans official is in charge of Military Readiness
Shawn Skelly left the military in 2008, thinking sHE’d never return; now sHE’s in charge of getting U.S. forces ready for...
Army veteran GOP rep pushes to impeach defense secretary over ‘woke’ military, Afghanistan debacle
A Republican legislator is pushing to impeach Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin over the chaotic Afghanistan withdrawal and for...
Missouri Attorney General Questions Department of Defense on Support of Child Transgenderism
A letter from Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey to Secretary of Defense Gen. Lloyd Austin, which was exclusively...
Prominent DEI Proponent and Black Scholar Gives Colvin Lecture at USAFA’s 2023 National Character and Leadership Symposium
By Tracey Meck, Colonel, USAF (Ret) USAFA ’87 STARRS Newsletter Editor and Chief Dr. Eddie Glaude Jr. was the Colvin keynote...
The Woke Military
By Tracey Meck, Colonel, USAF (Ret), USAFA ’87 Newsletter Editor and Chief Recently the senior enlisted leaders from each...
Military Readiness or Military Wokeness?
STARRS Board of Advisors member Elaine Donnelly was interviewed on Crosstalk to discuss military readiness versus military...
GOP Will Push Forward with Plans to Root Out ‘Woke’ Military Agenda
House Republicans expect to press forward with legislation targeting Pentagon policies they view as “woke”...
This woke Pentagon video delivers a dangerous message
By Rod Dorilas, Navy veteran When a Navy training video on the use of preferred pronouns emerged last year, many people...
Our military is in a dangerous decline and this is the reason why
By Rep. Michael Waltz, US National Guard Col. Dr. Kevin Roberts, President, Heritage Foundation The U.S. Armed Forces have...
Veterans to Congress: Wokeness is Hurting Readiness
By Dave Patterson, retired U.S. Air Force Pilot with over 180 combat missions in Vietnam and a former Principal Deputy Under...
West Point Cocaine Party One Year Later
By John Hughes, MD, USMA ’96 Union Generals McClellan, Burnside, Pope, and Rosecrans were relieved of command in the...
Military’s crusade for ‘diversity’ a delusion, says vets group
American Family News journalist J.M. Phelp wrote an article about STARRS and interviewed STARRS LTG Rod Bishop: A group of...
Defense Department ‘Drastically Shifted Off Course’
America is facing “the most serious and alarming recruiting and retention crisis that we’ve seen since Vietnam,” Rep. Mike...