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The DEI Commissariat
By CDR Salamander | CDR Salamander Substack If you think the DEI problem has gone out of control in our educational...
Defense Spending Bill Cuts Diversity Programs, But Leaves Out Provisions Blocking Trans Procedures, Abortion Funding
By Micaela Burrow | The Daily Caller The defense spending bill unveiled in the House early Thursday cuts millions in...
Spirit of VMI Chairman’s Update
By Matt Daniel, VMI ‘85 | The Spirit of VMI The Spirit of VMI was founded in the winter of 2021; it has been 3 years of...
VMI Eschews Standards of Excellence, Devalues Diploma
By Joseph D. Elie, VMI ’88 | The Spirit of VMI As an alumnus living in Florida, I have a dearth of information about...
Latest wave of wokeness to hit West Point reveals one simple solution
Cut to the chase re Doug MacKinnon’s unusual solution: instead of just complaining about wokeness in the service...
Engineering Failures, Toxic Leadership Prevented US Ship From Deploying, Investigations Show
By Micaela Burrow | The Daily Caller News Foundation Command investigations into the USS Boxer amphibious assault ship...
Many top colleges, including service academies, ‘training a cadre of political commissars’ through DEI certificate programs
Many American colleges and universities are offering diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) certificates that are not only a...
House Conservatives Target Critical Race Theory in Govt in Budget Proposal
The largest bloc of conservatives in the House is targeting critical race theory (CRT) throughout the federal government in...
West Point Gives in to Creeping Liberalism
By Mackubin Owens, retired Marine officer; taught at the US Naval War College for 35 years In May of 1962, General Douglas...
Senator Probes West Point’s Decision To Drop ‘Duty, Honor, Country’ From Mission Statement
(Press Release) U.S. Senator Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) sent a letter to United States Military Academy superintendent, Lt...
Congressman Grothman’s Statement on DEI in the Military
A STARRS delegation met with the Congressman in early February 2024. (Press Release) Congressman Glenn Grothman (R-WI)...
Would You Recommend Military Service as a Career?
Fill out this form on Military.com article where a reporter is asking for input on Would you recommend military service as a...
DACOWITS Pentagon Panel Says Women Should Be Integrated into Marine Platoons as Part of Recruit Training
The Marine Corps should fully integrate women into platoons and institute mixed-gender drill instructor teams at its recruit...
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Divided We Fall
By Lani Kass, PhD Served in DoD for 30 years STARRS Board of Advisors The presidential election is still 8 months away. Yet...
The indoctrination taking place within the DoD and the Air Force Academy
Another in a series of letters to the USAFA superintendent by Col. Ron Scott, PhD, USAFA ’73 and STARRS President:...
Stopping the Woke Agenda at the Defense Intelligence Agency
Just two people can stop woke. FOIA documents from the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) reveal that back in 2020, the folks...
Pushing the Woke Agenda on the Military: A preview in a 1973 letter from a combat veteran
First, a commentary by Scott McQuarrie (President, Veterans for Fairness and Merit, USMA ’72) about the below article...
‘Transsexualism’ is Rising Wildly in the Military, According to Seven Years of Public Health Data
By J. M. Phelps | Gateway Pundit Based on ICD-10 diagnosis codes related to transgenderism, the number of occurrences in...
A Man In Uniform
The below blog post, brought to our attention by a recently retired USAF Brigadier General, brings up an important point...
Members of Congress Press Air Force Academy on Trans Colonel’s Partisan Speech at Recent Conference
By Kristina Wong | Breitbart News Rep. Jim Banks (R-IN), Navy veteran and chairman of the House Armed Services Military...
Congressman brings veteran, advocate against vaccine mandate to State of Union address
(Press Release) U.S. Congressman Matt Gaetz (FL-01) brought former U.S. Army Captain and Green Beret John Frankman as his...
Army Says It Took Action After Instructor Tried To Wedge Systemic Racism Into Official Trainings
By Micaela Burrow | The Daily Caller News Foundation The Army removed a slide on systemic racism one of its instructors...
Marxism Expert James Lindsay: It’s Always About The Revolution
Information Operations host L Todd Wood (USAFA grad) speaks to author James Lindsay on how to fight the rise of Marxism in...
Woke supporters try to defend USAF Colonel in promotion limbo
A real puff piece was written in Military.com about Senator Schmitt’s hold on promotion of USAF Col. Ben Jonsson...
War Stories: Maj Gen Joe Arbuckle – Vietnam
Armed Forces Press host L Todd Wood (USAFA grad) speaks to STARRS Vice Chairman Major General Joe Arbuckle (USA, Ret) on his...
Gen & Col: America is Broken–It’s Time to Stand Up & Fight
Two videos from an Army General and a Colonel about the situation America is in. (Interview starts at the 11 minute mark)...
Expect the Evil
By Lt Col Darrin Gaub, US Army ret Co-Founder of Restore Liberty “Never open the door to a lesser evil, for other and...
Live Not By Lies
Words of wisdom for today as many ask “what can be done” in the face of a Marxist ideological capture of the...
More transgender madness in the military
Military watchdog journalist Sam Shoemate posted on his X account (@samosaur) a statement from a female service member who...
VA Secretary Intervenes After Top Officer Orders Iconic World War II Kiss Photo Removed for Being ‘Non-Consensual’
A recent memo from the Department of Veterans Affairs to its regional offices directed all copies of the iconic World War II...
Extremism on Duty
By Lt. Col. Tommy Waller, USMC Ret. | The American Mind Video footage of a U.S. Air Force Airman engulfed in flames on video...
Air Force Academy Highlights Transgender Officer At Leadership Summit
By Spencer Lindquist | Daily Wire The United States Air Force Academy showcased a transgender-identifying activist and...
When will the Pentagon start taking left-wing extremism seriously?
By John Schindler, former Navy Officer and Naval War College professor Served as an intelligence analyst at NSA Many were...
More Money for a Woke Pentagon?
From the Washington Stand: . . . . In this race to pass appropriations bills (one of which is Defense), Republicans have...
Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency DEI training features the ‘gender unicorn’ and ‘transgender terminology’
How embarrassing for grown adults working in counterintelligence and security to have to sit through a stupid briefing like...
Defense Secretary Refuses to Restore 8,600 Service Members He Vax-Mandated Out of Military
Congressman Matt Gaetz put the SECDEF on the line during a recent hearing where the SECDEF had to explain his unauthorized...
Meeting of the U.S. Naval Academy Board of Visitors
Calling all our Navy readers to attend the morning meeting of the Naval Academy Board of Visitors on March 19, 2024 from 9...
STARRS VIDEO: Out of Many, ONE
We’re DONE with all of the affinity/culture club groups at the service academies which separate, divide and have an...
Military Service Academy Affinity/Culture Clubs
No, not THAT Culture Club, but close. (Only people from the 1980s will get this) A look at identity-based clubs at the...
The Kinder, Gentler Military
There has been 30 years of sustained bludgeoning of the warrior culture that used to be the thing that attracted young men...
NCLS speaker tells cadets they need to be prepared to do what’s “uncomfortable and inconvenient” in the name of justice
Rather awkward press release from USAFA in light of what an anarchist Airman did this week in DC “in the name of...
Anti-Woke Caucus Targets DEI Committee At DOD Primary Schools
by Henry Rogers | The Daily Caller News Foundation Republican Indiana Rep. Jim Banks, who serves as Chairman of the Anti...
DOD’s Equity Action Plan 2023 Update
DoD recently released a report called “Equity Action Plan 2023 Update” (pdf). Written like something out of the...
Xi Van Fleet, a Sage for Turning Around a Troubled America
By Scott Powell | Townhall Outsiders often have more and better insights on societies and countries than native people...
US Army cutting force by 24K amid recruiting shortfalls
As the U.S. Army struggles with recruitment, the service is cutting its force by about 24,000 in a restructuring that it...
Military Recruitment Is Down. Good.
By Christopher Skeet, former US Marine | PJ Media I come from a family with generations of military tradition. Our first...
The more diversity officers and DEI training, race relations get worse
From former Army Captain Kendall Qualls, President of TakeCharge and STARRS Board of Advisors: Gallup has been tracking race...
Open letter exposes corruption, cheating and failing standards at West Point
This powerful letter was written in October 2017 by retired US Army LTC Robert M. Heffington (USMA 1997). Heffington was an...
DOD Contractor MITRE paid Billions by Pentagon set to host CRT author, hold ‘White Fragility’ Book Club
By Spencer Lindquist | The Daily Wire A federal contractor that’s received over five billion taxpayer dollars since...
Liberals Against DEI: Who Knew?
By Capt. Brent Ramsey, US Navy, ret Conservatives understand DEI as the practice of critical race theory (CRT). CRT derives...
Radicalism of US Airman who set himself on fire in uniform
All the indicators show that Aaron Bushnell became a radicalized far-left socialist/anarchist who hated the military while...
America’s military decline is deliberate
By Richard Kline, USMA 1967 Served in the US Air Force, Senior Executive Service in the govt Our military recruiting...
British Military’s 111 diversity champions ‘undermine combat effectiveness’
Can’t help but be amazed by UK’s Ministry of Defense seeking “champions” for service members with...
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Air Force / Air Force Academy
Runaway Wokeness at the Air Force Academy
The Patriot Post’s writer and analyst, Douglas Andrews, writes a biting essay on the increasing trend of Wokeism and a...
To combat bullying and extremism, Air Force Academy turns to social media sleuthing
By Will Carless | USA Today After years of internal and external alarms that the military isn’t doing enough to address...
Army / West Point
The Rise and Fall of Empires
STARRS Vice Chairman MG Joe Arbuckle, US Army ret, was recently on the Dan Happel Connecting the Dots podcast. He was joined...
A Patriot Day Remembrance: 9/11 Twenty-Two Years Later
By Lt. Col. Darin Gaub, US Army ret Co-founder of Restore Liberty On September 11, 2001, I was sitting in class in Fort...
Navy / Naval Academy
Naval professor’s new book flags leftist ideology infiltrating military
A U.S. Naval Academy professor who has been disciplined by the institution for speaking out against the school’s practices...
A Matter of Life and Death: America’s Military Academies Must Return to Meritocracies
By Wilson Beaver Senior Policy Analyst for defense budgeting The Heritage Foundation’s Center for National Defense Served in...
Bill to Protect Air Force Cadets, Midshipmen From Being Punished for Not Receiving Covid-19 Vaccine
Trailer for new documentary of Navy Seals vs C19 vax mandate
Sen. Cruz brings Navy LT affected by vax mandate to SOTU
No diploma? No problem! Navy again lowers requirements as it struggles to meet recruitment goals
CG/Coast Guard Academy
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