Ron DeSantis rolled out his plan to “rip the woke out of the military and return it to its core mission” at a campaign stop in Columbia, South Carolina, on July 18. DeSantis’s plan doesn’t address military weaponry or theaters of engagement, subjects he often touches on in his speeches. The program instead focuses on…

Space Force Lt. Gen. DeAnna Burt suggested that “anti-LGBTQ+” laws passed by several states threaten military readiness and that these laws affected hiring and promotion decisions. “Since January of this year, more than 400 anti-LGBTQ+ laws have been introduced at the state level. That number is rising and demonstrates a trend that could be dangerous…

The U.S. Navy hired a drag performer as part of a now-concluded pilot program designed to boost service recruiting. Yeoman 2nd Class Joshua Kelley, the drag performer who goes by the stage name “Harpy Daniels,” claimed in a November 2022 Instagram post that the service had invited him to become a “digital ambassador.” In an…

Commentary For a couple of years now, the U.S. military has had a serious recruitment problem. That isn’t really a surprise. Our leaders have injected the entire menu of radical woke ideology into the tissues of the military establishment. Gen. Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, worries about “white rage” and supports teaching…

Commentary Walt Kelly’s “Pogo” was a syndicated cartoon that appeared in hundreds of North American newspapers from 1948 to 1975. The comic strip chronicled the adventures of a clever opossum who lived among other talking animals in the Southern Okefenokee Swamp. Pogo was popular among children and adults with plenty of pithy political satire aimed…

General David H. Berger, the commandant of the U.S. Marine Corps, said he has seen “zero evidence” supporting claims that the military’s diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) program —which critics have accused of being “woke”—have hindered the military’s overall readiness for battle. Berger appeared for an interview with Defense One on Thursday to discuss the…

A recent audit found that K-12 schools operated by the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) are carrying hundreds of “Racial Justice in America” books that were written on the side by one of the DoD’s diversity officials, raising questions about conflicts of interest and self-dealing in the department. On Thursday, the independent watchdog organization OpenTheBooks.com…

U.S. troops serving overseas may find that government schools are indoctrinating their children and teaching them to keep secrets from their parents. According to a report from the Claremont Institute, classes from the Department of Defense Education Activity (DoDEA) teach children radical activism, gender ideology, and hiding gender questions from families. The lesson plans aren’t…

In this episode of Counterculture, Danielle affirms the principles of American exceptionalism and argues that these are the principles that the military should be encouraging and teaching. Instead, the military is teaching a poisonous ideology, dividing one soldier from another and purging conservatives for their political views. Danielle interviews retired Gunnery Sergeant Jessie Jane Duff…