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The Pentagon did not deny a recent report that U.S. special operations forces are in Taiwan helping train their counterparts.

Navy SEAL veteran Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R-TX) on Friday announced he had launched a page for whistleblowers to go and report complaints on wokeness spreading in the United States military.

Rep. Scott Franklin (R-FL) will introduce a bill this week to ban China from participating in the world’s largest naval exercise, hosted by the United States Navy, until it stops committing genocide against its Uyghur minority, Breitbart News has exclusively learned.

Thirty House Republicans sent a letter to Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin on Wednesday, warning him that creeping left-wing extremism and politicization is jeopardizing the United States military’s status as one of the nation’s most respected institutions.

The Bidens thanked National Guard members as they ended their mission securing the Capitol Building since the January “insurrection.”

Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-OK), the top Republican on the Senate Armed Services Committee, the committee that oversees the United States military, issued a statement over the weekend in support of Air Force Lt. Col. Matthew Lohmeier, who was relieved of his command at Space Force after warning about Marxism spreading in the military.

Cruz fired back at Democrats and “woke media” claiming he attacked the military when he criticized the Army’s latest recruitment campaign.

Two dozen Republican lawmakers, led by Rep. Doug Lamborn (R-CO), are calling on the acting Air Force secretary to reinstate the Air Force lieutenant colonel who was fired from his job at Space Force after warning Marxism was spreading within the military.

The U.S. approved on Monday the release of the oldest prisoner at the U.S. military’s Guantánamo Bay prison in Cuba, a 76-year-old man from Pakistan held for 16 years at the facility for alleged ties to the al-Qaeda terror group.

A United States Air Force lieutenant colonel was fired from his command at Space Force after he gave interviews about his new book in which he said Marxism and critical race theory are spreading in the military.

The first active duty service member has been charged in connection to the January 6 Capitol breach on Thursday, out of the more than one thousand people estimated to have entered the Capitol building that day.

The Army this week unveiled animated recruitment advertisements that highlight women, minorities, immigrants, and the LGBT community in an attempt to recruit Generation Z.

Wormuth said she is concerned about the implications of the Army’s test for combat fitness for retaining women.

Over 120 retired flag officers warned the country is in deep peril and under tremendous assault from those pushing socialism and Marxism.

The U.S. State Department said this week it recently fined U.S. defense contractor Honeywell $13 million after the company was found to have “harmed national security” by sharing sensitive information about U.S. military aircraft with China and other countries.

The nation’s top military officer touted “diversity” as one of the United States military’s “key strengths” on Wednesday.

Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin is “certainly concerned” about the lack of diversity among the senior ranks of the military, Pentagon Press Secretary John Kirby said Wednesday.

United States-led NATO forces began officially withdrawing from Afghanistan on Saturday, May 1, to meet President Joe Biden’s troop drawdown deadline of September 11, 2021, with officials warning the Taliban against attacks on the troops as they leave.

China is looking to place more troops in Africa as part of its long-term ambitions, the top defense intelligence official said.

Australia will invest $580 million to upgrade four of its northern military bases and expand “war gaming” exercises with the United States, Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison announced Wednesday. “Our focus is on pursuing peace, stability, and a free and

Afghanistan will continue working with its “U.S./NATO partners” after the U.S. withdraws troops from the country in September, Afghan President Ashraf Ghani said Wednesday.

Neo-conservatives and foreign policy establishment figures unsurprisingly blasted the Biden Administration for its plans to continue the Trump administration’s drawdown of American forces from Afghanistan, and they issued dire warnings if President Joe Biden were to go through with it.

Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) said Tuesday on Fox News Channel’s “Hannity” that President Joe Biden was “paving the way for another 9/11” with his reported pledge for a full withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan by September 11, 2021.

The new diversity and inclusion chief for the U.S. military’s Special Operations Command, Richard Torres-Estrada, has been reassigned amid an investigation into politically-charged social media posts he made before he was hired, a spokesman told Breitbart News on Monday.

During Friday’s broadcast of FNC’s “Tucker Carlson Tonight,” Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) questioned the trend toward “wokeness” in the U.S. military, which he said was one of the last places in the federal government where the left had not taken control.

Friday, Fox News Channel’s Tucker Carlson opened his show by offering example after example of the Biden administration installing so-called “woke” individuals throughout the U.S. military, and in some cases have been very critical of former President Donald Trump and his supporters.

Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) is introducing a bill Thursday that would ban critical race theory (CRT) from the United States military trainings.

The Pentagon said in a statement Tuesday that Vice President Kamala Harris “has made very clear her respect and admiration” for the military after she received flak for not returning salutes by the Air Force honor guard welcoming her aboard Air Force Two.

McCarthy called for the politicization of the military to “stop now,” after a series of political controversies.

Guam Rep. San Nicolas led a group of Guam National Guard members to Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s office on Monday in a political stunt.

A group of Republicans in the Senate and House are backing up Fox News host Tucker Carlson’s right to criticize President Joe Biden over cultural experiments at the Pentagon.

Fox News show host Tucker Carlson on Friday evening responded to the Pentagon’s military brass targeting him after he criticized President Joe Biden for focusing on inclusivity for women in the military while China is focusing on making its young men more masculine.

CNN anchor Brianna Keilar Friday on her show “Newsroom” offered her thoughts on the alleged controversy related to Fox News host Tucker Carlson’s comments about women in the military.

Failed Kentucky Democrat U.S. Senate candidate Amy McGrath, who was the first female Marine combat pilot, criticized Fox News host Tucker Carlson’s comments about women in the military demanding Fox News apologize, Thursday on MsNBC’s “Deadline.”

The National Guard Bureau Chief reportedly opposed keeping National Guard troops at the Capitol but was overridden by Defense Secretary Austin.

Fox News host Tucker Carlson’s riff on Biden focusing on inclusivity for women has sparked anger from progressives in the military.