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STARRS Podcasts
Mike Rose: Fighting for Justice and Integrity in the Military and Service Academies
The Amazing Military Aviation Life of F-4 Wild Weasel Al Palmer
His Army Air Corps grandfather received his pilot license in 1906 from Orville Wright and knew aviation legends like Charles...
Woke Policies are Destroying the Military from the Inside Out
STARRS recently held a Joint Town Hall with the MacArthur Society of West Point Graduates and the Calvert Task Group. The...
Are the Motivations to Serve Missing in Today’s Military? A Conversation with Three Leaders
STARRS & Stripes Host CDR Al Palmer, USN ret, was joined by the presidents of three veterans organizations who are...
Shifts in Military Culture: Insights from Lt General Rod Bishop
Is the U.S. military compromising its unity and readiness for the sake of progressive ideologies? Join STARRS & Stripes...
Preserving Military Excellence through Leadership and Unity with Tom Burbage and Bruce Davey of the Calvert Task Group
Join STARRS & Stripes podcast with host CDR Al Palmer, US Navy ret, for an inspiring conversation with leaders of the...
Left-Wing Brainwashing in the Military and Academia with Dr. Stanley Ridgley and Dr. Ron Scott
This important episode of STARRS & Stripes looks at the radical and dangerous left-wing ideological influences and...
Tribute to the Leadership and Legacy of Warfighter General Robert F. Titus, “Earthquake”
What makes a military leader truly exceptional? Brigadier General Robert F. Titus, known as “Earthquake,”...
From USAFA to Air Force Leader: Discipline, Mentorship, and Duty with Colonel Ron Scott
STARRS & STRIPES Interviews: Meet STARRS President and CEO Col. Ron Scott, PhD, USAF ret, USAFA ’73 — his...
DEI’s Impact on Military Unity, Readiness and Historical Lessons for Today
Are our military forces less prepared today than they were after World War II? Join us as Commander Al Palmer, USN ret, and...
Flying the F-14 Tomcat: Lessons in Leadership and Camaraderie with Navy Commander Dave Baranek
Ever wonder what it takes to fly one of the Navy’s most iconic jets? Join STARRS & Stripes podcast with host CDR...
Major General Joe Arbuckle on Meritocracy, Accountability and Military Reform
What does it take to rise from a private to a Major General in the U.S. Army? Major General Joe Arbuckle, US Army ret, joins...
Latest News on the CRT/DEI/Woke Agenda in the Military
Restoring the Warrior Ethos to the Trump Military
By Cynical Publius, a retired US Army Colonel | American Greatness As a second Trump term becomes possible (or even...
Left-Wing Brainwashing in the Military and Academia with Dr. Stanley Ridgley and Dr. Ron Scott
This important episode of STARRS & Stripes looks at the radical and dangerous left-wing ideological influences and...
Two Disturbing Stories Regarding the Academies
These two similar stories were recently seen in comment sections on two different articles on different websites: “A...
New Intelligence Rules Let The U.S. Military Help Kill Americans, But Not Directly
By Cynical Publius (on X @CynicalPublius), ret US Army Colonel | The Federalist American politics has turned into a...
New Department of Defense Directive: A License To Kill American Citizens?
By Tony Lentini, USMA ’71 I was a West Point cadet on May 4, 1970, the day Ohio National Guard troops opened fire on...
“Our military will take years to recover from this leadership-generated lack of trust”
Former Green Beret John Frankman, who was forced out of the Army, recently posted the below on X. Following this post are...
Boeing Dismantles DEI Department!
Pilots everywhere rejoice! By Ariel Zilber | New York Post Boeing reportedly dismantled its global diversity, equity and...
Internal CIA documents, presentation show effort to mandate DEI at the center of the intel agency
The below article by Just the News heavily draws upon the May 2024 DACODAI meeting that STARRS monitored and recorded...
Equity Everywhere: 500 Ways the Biden-Harris Administration Infused DEI Into the Federal Government
The Do No Harm organization released a new report on how the radical and divisive DEI ideology has been infused/infiltrated...
Election Results Will Determine if Military Can Be Salvaged
Matt Lohmeier was on Steve Gardner’s Taming Wall Street show talking about a number of different issues concerning the...
4 Years of Biden-Harris ‘Woke’ Military Policies Have Left America Dangerously Weak, Vulnerable, Unprepared
By Joshua Klein | Breitbart News As the Biden-Harris administration’s term ends, its four-year focus on social reforms...
Forging a National Security Agenda: An Open Letter to the Presidential Candidates
By Lani Kass, PhD, served in DOD for 29 years STARRS Board of Advisors NOTE: The original version of this essay was...
Want To Thank Vets for Their Military Service? Vote Like You Mean It
By Major Chase Spears, PhD, USA ret By this point in the presidential election cycle, most voters have likely come across...
How Woke Politics Are Endangering Our Military and Our Nation
“A review of one of the most important books of the last decade.” —Jason Hill, Professor, author of, “What...
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Documentary Exposes the DEI Scam and Race Hustlers
The must-see documentary, “Am I Racist?” is now available to watch at home via the Daily Wire website...
Hoping for a Red Sky at Night Soon
By Capt. Tom Burbage, USN ret, USNA ’69 President, Calvert Task Group Red Sky at Morning, Sailor Take Warning, Red Sky...
Misinformation About the Military and Climate Change
By Rear Admiral Tim Gallaudet, USN, ret. A recent opinion piece in Politico from a former Department of Defense (DoD)...
Republicans Spent Years Slamming ‘Woke’ Military Policies. The Election Could Give Them the Chance to Act.
The reporter makes all this sound like a bad thing. By Rebecca Kheel | Military.com Military policies related to...
The 2024 Survey of Military Veterans
Here is the important survey conducted by the authors of “DEI is Crushing Military Recruitment”, political...
Comments on “DEI is Crushing Military Recruitment”
The recent op-ed in the Wall Street Journal, “DEI is Crushing Military Recruitment” has gone viral because it...
Mike Rose: Fighting for Justice and Integrity in the Military and Service Academies
In this episode of STARRS & Stripes, prepare to engage with a riveting conversation on the intricate landscape of...
DEI Is Crushing Military Recruitment
By Kevin Wallsten and Owen West The veteran community has lost faith in the country’s national-security leadership. The...
A University spent millions on DEI efforts. They failed miserably.
Service Academies, pay attention: By Neetu Arnold | USA Today Divisive, extreme and intolerant. That’s what diversity...
Unmasking the Marxist Agenda in the Military
Matt Lohmeier was a guest on Kingdom Podcast with Greg Hood going in-depth on Marxism in our country: Excerpt from the...
Service Academy Complacency or Scandal?
By Col. Ron Scott, PhD, USAF ret, USAFA ’73 STARRS President Tony Lentini’s recent article, “West Point Selectively...
DOD Needs a New Committee that Unifies, Not Divides
The Secretary of Defense’s DEI advisory committee is being renewed according to a recent Federal Register notice...
Open Letter to West Point Superintendent
Col. (Ret.) Bill Prince here, USMA ’70 and President of the MacArthur Society of West Point Graduates. Below you will see a...
The Diversity Zampolits at Annapolis
By CDR Salamander | Substack Let’s revisit my post from 25 months ago to see how USNA has operationalized their Diversity...
Message From Matthew Lohmeier
Dear American Veteran, Concerned Citizen, A short time after my book Irresistible Revolution became a national bestseller, I...
UPDATE: USAFA Athletic Director Apologizes to Grad “Wearing Keep Women’s Sports Female” Shirt
From Mike Rose Mike Rose Law Firm, PC STARRS Executive Vice President and General Counsel Please find in the screenshot...
Navy accuses Navy Pilot who beheaded Satan statue of domestic extremism
By Ben Ziesloft | The Sentinel Navy officials accused Michael Cassidy, the conservative Christian veteran who tore down a...
Air Force Academy Forces Graduate To Conceal ‘Keep Women’s Sports Female’ Shirt At Volleyball Match
By Shawn Fleetwood | The Federalist The U.S. Air Force Academy forced a graduate attending the school’s recent volleyball...
The Army’s New Enlisted Leader Is All About Discipline
Encouraging: By Steve Beynon | Military.com Sergeant Major of the Army Michael Weimer took the service’s top enlisted...
We All Wear Green, We All Bleed Red, There is No Difference: Race-conscious Admissions Policies Have No Place at Our Military Academies
By Larry Purdy, USNA ’68 Abstract While the thousands upon thousands of dedicated military officers do not share the...
Senator: ‘Woke’ Military Leadership Weakening National Security
(Press Release) U.S. Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Auburn) faults the Biden-Harris administration and the current military...
Matt Lohmeier back on Information Operation podcast
Full circle. It was on this podcast back in 2021 when the Space Force used this to oust Lt. Colonel Matthew Lohmeier...
USAFA Stops ’02 Grad From Wearing ‘Keep Women’s Sports Female’ Shirt During Match Against SJSU
Background: Five schools in the Mountain West Conference refused to play against San Jose State University women’s...
DEI poses greatest threat to our national, economic security
By Doug MacKinnon In the last few weeks, I have spoken with over 10 former high-level military and intelligence officials...
Electing the Next Commander-in-Chief
By Elaine Donnelly President, Center for Military Readiness STARRS Board of Advisors Republican and Democratic Platforms...
Day One of Trump 47—So Much to Correct; Military Reform Must by High on the List
By Col. Bill Wenger, US Army ret It is increasingly likely that Donald Trump will be No. 47. Likely also that Republicans...
Response to 2nd Lt Metzler
This is in response to the article: USAF 2nd LT: “It’s thanks to the Air Force Academy that I currently have an anti-war...
Are the Motivations to Serve Missing in Today’s Military? A Conversation with Three Leaders
STARRS & Stripes Host CDR Al Palmer, USN ret, was joined by the presidents of three veterans organizations who are...
What They Learn at Annapolis is Brought to the Fleet
By CDR Salamander | Substack Having checked my notes, in Annapolis we have the United States Naval Academy. Sure, there is...
“We fought a Cold War over the Containment of Communism and Marxist ideology”
We just can’t shy away from calling things what they are. . . . We’ve got to call it what it is that we’re...
The Changing Climate of Military Recruitment
By Brian Mark Weber | Patriot Post The world is on fire. Conflicts from the Middle East to Ukraine threaten global...
West Point Grad to Trump: As you de-woke the military, pay attention to Generals placed in Academies and ROTC and the curriculum there
West Point graduate and 4th generation Army veteran Alisha Houston asked President Trump a question during a recent town...
West Point Selectively Censors Information in Violation of Federal Law
By Tony Lentini, ’71 Military.com recently carried a story on a West Point cadet facing charges for sexual harassment...
Two Military Chaplains on the STARRS Board of Advisors Ask the Nation to Pray
(Press Release) “As tensions and worries increase leading up to perhaps one of the most important elections in our lives...
Truth Outweighs Party Identity
We wonder the same thing about veterans and those still in of why they don’t see or understand the dangers of the...
Naval Academy Ignores Students’ Right Not to Recite Preferred Pronouns
By Capt. Charles “Cully” Stimson, US Navy JAG Corps, ret | Daily Signal Something is amiss in Annapolis, home of the U.S...
Judicial Watch Sues for Details of Army Labeling Right to Life Groups as Terrorists
(Press Release) Judicial Watch announced today that it filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit against the U.S...
Kubrick’s Daughter: ‘Trump Has My Blessing’ to Use ‘Full Metal Jacket’ Against ‘Woke Ideology’
By John Nolte | Breitbart News Stanley Kubrick’s daughter Vivian supports Donald Trump’s use of footage from her late...
Matt Lohmeier: DEI is the Manifestation of Marxism in America
On the Feds for Freedom podcast, Vice-President Cameron Hamilton spoke with Matthew Lohmeier about the overt politicization...
USAF 2nd LT: “It’s thanks to the Air Force Academy that I currently have an anti-war stance.”
Well, there goes $400,000-$500,000 of taxpayer’s money down the drain paying for her education at USAFA. She is...
Soldiers, families discovering ‘freedom’ applies only to Left
Defense Department still won’t admit COVID shot mandate was unlawful
Echoes of Tyranny: The Forgotten Lessons from History
“…Nowhere else to go.”
Gen. Bishop: Isn’t this what America should be about?
Communism In America
The Growing DEI Threat to Intelligence Agencies
Trump Video Slams Wokeness in the Military
“DOD now sees combating climate change as CENTRAL to its mission.”
Honor Is Sine Qua Non
Thoughts on West Point 2050
How Woke Politics are Endangering the U.S. Military
Judicial Watch Sues Department of Defense for Records on U.S. Air Force Academy’s Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Plans
Postponing This Partisan Lecture Isn’t Enough
Capt. Hung Cao: The military is actually exclusive, not inclusive
Trump Pledges New Task Force To Gut DEI Racism From The U.S. Military
‘I SEE NO APOLOGY’: Naval Academy Postpones Anti-Trump Lecturer, Critics Demand Answers
Naval Academy Postpones Lecture Featuring NYU Professor Who Called Trump An ‘Authoritarian’
Navy Whistleblower Rips Leftist Woke Military in Retirement Speech
Task Force to Rid DOD of the DEI Industry and Agenda
Open Letters
Air Force / Air Force Academy
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...
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...
Army / West Point
Army: An Alternate Opinion of its Readiness
By LTC Tricia Vinson, US Army ret My topic is the COVID-19 vaccine mandate and potential impacts on the military’s readiness...
The Supreme Court won’t allow racial preferences at service academies, either
By Michael Ormsbee, professor of constitutional law topics and space law at the U.S. Air Force Academy The Supreme Court...
Navy / Naval Academy
Navy Seal Carl Higbie: Navigating Woke Culture, Weak Military
Former Navy SEAL and Newsmax host, Carl Higbie, joins the Better for America Podcast to share his unique perspective as a...
Official US Navy Special Forces page draws backlash for ringing in Pride month: ‘Navy SEALs have gone woke’
By Anders Hagstrom | Fox News The official Facebook page for the U.S. Navy SEALs and Naval Special Warfare Command was...
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