In this episode of STARRS & Stripes, host Commander Al Palmer, USN ret, talks with the Chairman of the STARRS Board of Advisors, Colonel Bill Connor, USA ret, whose family members have served in the Army for five generations. They discussed a wide...
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The Inside Job at VMI
(The Cadet Foundation Press Release provided to STARRS) Virginia Democrats Move VMI attack to the Back Room What happens...
Virginia House Speaker Faces Questions Over Alleged VMI Board Pressure and Budget Threats
STARRS is concerned about political changes reflecting progressive (Marxist) ideology. Virginia’s most politically and...
Pentagon Update on C19 Vax Remedies
Under Secretary of War for Personnel and Readiness Anthony Tata (retired US Army Brig. General and USMA 1981 grad) gave an...
Pentagon highlights more examples of C19 vax reinstatements
Pentagon social media accounts continue to highlight military people reinstated back to service after having left because of...
The Club, The Purge, And The Collapse Of Accountability Inside The U.S. Military
By Mark W. Castillon, Army National Guard Veteran I understand exactly how this is supposed to go. I’m supposed to stay...
Application Denied: Another Dive into the Failures of Military Bureaucracy and COVID-19 Mandate Relief
By J.M. Phelps | Gateway Pundit On September 23, 2021, an active-duty Air Force officer who has served for 18 years...
MacArthur Society’s Commanders Call with “Yuri Bezmenov”
The MacArthur Society‘s April 2026 Commanders Call featured “Yuri Bezmenov” as their first anonymous guest speaker. He...
Anti-masculinity in the military lecture at Vassar featuring former West Point prof
STARRS We catch up with a former left-wing West Point professor who had fretted, “I am reminded of the tragic...
US Army announces new gender-neutral Combat Field Test
…for Combat specialty soldiers. Goes in line with there should not be two standards for combat duty. ( US Army) The U...
We should all want GROUND TRUTH–and we sure aren’t getting it from our legacy media
By Lt. General Rod Bishop, USAF ret, USAFA ’74 STARRS Board of Directors Chairman Emeritus See the above headline in a...
Capt. Hung Cao (USN ret) becomes Acting Secretary of the Navy
Sean Parnell, Assistant to the Secretary of War for Public Affairs, Chief Pentagon Spokesman & Senior Advisor to SECWAR...
A Lesson Of History: People of True Christian Faith are Always Outnumbered
By Lt. Col. Darin Gaub, US Army ret “Enter by the narrow gate. For the gate is wide and the way is easy that leads to...
Accreditation and West Point
Brig. Gen. Mitchell M. Zais, (ret.) Ph.D. Vice Chairman of the STARRS Board of Directors Remarks Delivered by Webinar to the...
STARRS Announces Lieutenant Colonel (Ret.) Allen B. West to Board of Advisors
COLORADO SPRINGS, CO, UNITED STATES, April 22, 2026 — Stand Together Against Racism and Radicalism in the Services...
Interview with STARRS Board of Advisors Chairman Col. Bill Connor, USA ret
In this episode of STARRS & Stripes, host Commander Al Palmer, USN ret, talks with the Chairman of the STARRS Board of...
Hegseth: Flu Vaccine Optional
By C. Todd Lopez | Pentagon News Annual influenza vaccines are no longer mandatory, said Secretary of War Pete Hegseth in a...
Air Force, Space Force meet recruiting goals 5 months ahead of schedule
(US Air Force Press Release) The Air Force and Space Force achieved annual recruiting goals five months ahead of schedule...
‘Call Sign Courage’ movie recounts story of commander who took on cultural Marxism in US military
By Doug Mainwaring | LifeSiteNews Lt. Col. Matthew Lohmeier, the former commander of the 11th Space Warning Squadron...
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Elon Musk Promotes Story of Pilot Ousted for Urging Merit-Based Military
By Pedro Rodriguez | The Daily Signal Elon Musk on Friday promoted a film about Lt. Col. Matthew Lohmeier’s fight against...
Clarence Thomas warns America: Liberty dies when we choose comfort over courage
“Justice Thomas’s address reminded me of Thomas Jefferson’s assertion that “a well-informed citizenry is the...
Impeaching Pete
The Powerline blog has a good synopsis of the ridiculous impeachment charges against the Secretary of War: In a little over...
“Merit drives promotion and opportunity. Not someone’s sex or race”
DOJ Press Release: IBM Pays $17 Million to Resolve Allegations of Discrimination Through Illegal DEI Practices On April 10...
How Soviet Marxist Subversion Outlived the Soviet Union
By Emzari Gelashvili Former Member of the Georgian Parliament Former senior official in Georgia’s Ministry of Defense...
The Pattern of US Military’s Anthrax & COVID Mandates
On the Feds for Freedom podcast: Before COVID mandates… There were Anthrax mandates. In this explosive episode of The Feds...
LTC West: Instill honor, integrity, patriotism, and character in the next generation
Former US Congressman Lt. Col. Allen West, USA ret, who recently become a member of the STARR Board of Advisors, gave an...
Crewmen Waiting To Be Rescued Don’t Need DEI, They Need A Competent Military
By Col. William A. Woodruff, US Army lawyer, retired As the details of the complex, daring, and successful rescue of two...
Colonel Brandon Tellez ’01 to Succeed Brig. General Marks as Commandant, Reinforcing Warfighter Focus at the Academy
(USAFA Press Release) In preparation for a change of command ceremony next month, Col. Brandon J. Tellez, Class of ’01, has...
Scouting America’s Pentagon-Mandated Return to American Roots
By Jay Rogers, USMC veteran Picture this: a twelve-year-old stands at the edge of a cold lake at 0600, staring down his...
Dostoevsky’s “Demons” as a Prophecy of Ideological Possession
STARRS President Col. Ron Scott, PhD, USAF ret, USAFA ’73 highly recommends this article to explain what we are seeing...
LTC Allen West on the spread of radical Islam in the West
Lt Col. Allen West, US Army ret and former Congressman, did a superb job in this very short video when he nailed the danger...
STARRS leaders give “American Creed” presentation at the Center for American Values
Maj. General Joe Arbuckle, USA ret (on the STARRS Board of Directors and formerly its Vice Chairman for many years) and...
Watch “Call Sign Courage” documentary on X
“Call Sign Courage: The Matt Lohmeier Story” is now available to watch on X! The documentary that former STARRS...
The ‘Moral Imperative’ Behind the Rescues in Iran
By Forrest L. Marion, Ph.D. Retired U.S. Air Force officer and military historian The writer gratefully acknowledges this...
”What do you want your military to be?”
By Lt Colonel Robert “Buzz” Patterson, USAF ret STARRS Board of Advisors “There are ways in which a ruler can bring...
End Result of Radical Ideologies
Regarding the problem of the radical ideologies Islamism and Marxism and the Left/Marxists in America who support a brutal...
How can the Army have a guide to spiritual fitness without mentioning God?
By @CynicalPublius, retired Army Colonel So SecWar Pete Hegseth just fired Maj. Gen. William Green Jr., the US Army’s (now...
Hegseth’s transformation of the Pentagon continues apace
By Mike Brest | Washington Examiner Secretary of War Pete Hegseth’s ousting of Army chief of staff Gen. Randy George is just...
Dean of West Point leaving to become university president
Brigadier General Shane Reeves, the dean of the Academic Board at the U.S. Military Academy—who was named to that position...
Hegseth Authorizes Off-Duty Service Members to Carry Private Firearms on Installations
Remember Fort Hood By Matthew Olay | Pentagon News Secretary of War Pete Hegseth signed a memorandum directing military...
Meeting of the U.S. Naval Academy Board of Visitors – April 13, 2026
From the Federal Register: The DoD is publishing this notice to announce that the following Federal Advisory Committee...
Air Force Materiel Command hosts USecAF Lohmeier during Wright-Patterson AFB immersion
(USAF Press Release) Under Secretary of the Air Force Matt Lohmeier visited with Air Force Materiel Command units and Airmen...
How the Homeland Became a Combat Zone
By Major Chase Spears, PhD, ret USA PAO During a dinner at the annual gathering of the Ciceronian Society on March 19, a...
The Air Force Is Finally Restoring Honor to the Faithful It Wrongly Punished
By Christopher Motz, First Liberty | The Daily Signal The Department of the Air Force’s March 19 decision to correct the...
Remove Sen. Van Hollen from the Naval Academy Board of Visitors
By Victoria Manning | Restoration News Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) didn’t wait for facts. He went straight to CNN to...
Pentagon cites ‘meritocracy’ as reported officer promotion removals
The latest political information warfare campaign being carried out by the leftist media and the deep state/national...
Air National Guardsman Being Denied Reenlistment for Refusing Flu Shot Cites Violation of Constitutional Rights
By J.M. Phelps | Gateway Pundit After 18 years of dedicated service, Arkansas Air National Guardsman Chris Babczak is being...
STARRS Minnesota State Leader Interviewed on Podcast about STARRS
STARRS Minnesota State Leader Paul Reese was interviewed on the podcast “On the Fringe with DRS” about the work...
Ivy League Ideological Monoculture Is Useless To The U.S. Military
By Casey Chalk | The Federalist Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth’s recent decision to end the Pentagon’s academic...
Fact Sheets Fact Sheet: President Donald J. Trump Addresses DEI Discrimination by Federal Contractors
(The White House) ADDRESSING DEI DISCRIMINATION BY FEDERAL CONTRACTORS: Today, President Donald J. Trump signed an Executive...
EXECUTIVE ORDER: Addressing DEI Discrimination by Federal Contractors
(The White House) By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of...
West Point: Sword Making or Swordsmanship?
By then-Lt. Col. Mitchell M. Zais, USA, USMA ’69 March 1990 Armed Forces Journal International (Now retired Army Brig...
Air Force Officer Continues His Fight Against Vindictiveness and Intolerance Over COVID-19 Shot Mandate
By J.M. Phelps | Gateway Pundit An Air Force officer continues to battle one of the most egregious cases of vindictiveness...
Let’s accomplish the objectives!
By Lt. Gen. Rod Bishop, USAF ret, USAFA ’74 STARRS Chairman Emeritus Regarding the article on Military Times, Pentagon...
USNA BOV Member is Beneath Contempt
By Lawrence Purdy, USNA ’68 United States Senator Chris Van Hollen’s suggestion – without offering any proof —...
Where Have All the Young Men Gone?
By Lt. Col. Karen McKay, USA ret When Richard Nixon ended the draft in January 1973, America lost something vital to its...
Pentagon Highlighting Reinstatements
Pentagon social media accounts have been highlighting military people who left because of the Covid vax mandate but came...
Hegseth Announces Reforms to Chaplain Corps
By Matthew Olay | Pentagon News Secretary of War Pete Hegseth yesterday announced a pair of reforms to the military’s...
Restoring The Ranks Or Repeating The Process?
By Mark W. Castillon, Army National Guard Veteran A Critical Analysis of the Military’s COVID-19 Reinstatement Initiative...
Will the Physical End of the Frankfurt School Be Followed by Ideological Demise?
Gen. Frank McKenzie selected as 21st president of The Citadel
Democrats Blast Hegseth for Feeding Troops but Ignored Biden’s Disastrous DEI Spending
The Way of War of Our Enemies
Air Force Pilot Granted the Opportunity to Resume His Distinguished Military Career with His Honor Restored
The US Army is Finally Kicking Out TikTok Soldiers
SecWar update on Covid-19 Reinstatements
DAF completes records review for COVID-related separations
Drones, Strategy, and the Modern Airpower Revolution
Reflection on the Soccer 9 Luncheon
American Ally: The Republic of Korea
Things I Voted For, Volume II
Ex-Cadet Behind Democrat Attacks on Virginia Military Institute Has a Checkered History
Statement by Chief Pentagon Spokesman Sean Parnell on “Strengthening the Effectiveness of Our Senior Service Colleges
Brig. Gen. Valpiani Assumes Command as Academy’s 12th Dean of the Faculty
Colorado Springs News Gazette Highlights STARRS Victory for Air Force Academy Soccer Players
Under Trump, Navy Leadership Refocuses on Winning Wars
SecWar Forms Task Force on Senior Service Colleges
Hegseth Calls for Assessment, Alignment of DOW Legal Functions, Operations
STARRS Releases a Case Study Document on the USAFA
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Air Force / Air Force Academy
Congressman Protects Women’s Sports at U.S. Military Service Academies
(Press Release) U.S. Representative Dusty Johnson (R-S.D.) introduced the Protection of Women in Sports at Military...
DAF: No more non-essential travel to things like DEI events at Pentagon
We recall this story from June 2023: Air Force uses taxpayer money for personnel to travel to pride events in DC where a...
Army / West Point
The cost to rename 9 Confederacy-honoring Army bases has doubled
The cost of renaming the nine Army bases that honored the Confederacy has nearly doubled, an Army official told lawmakers...
ARMY MEMO: Implementing Guidance for Executive Order Defending Women
Review all programs and terminate any that promote or inculcate gender ideology. tab-a-s-implementing-guidance-for...
Navy / Naval Academy
Here’s What Naval Academy Students Are Learning In Their Gender And Sexuality Class
WHY IN THE WORLD does a war-fighting military academy need a specialist in “Gender and Sexuality Studies”...
Radical transgender ideology is shown the door at DOD
Major Chase Spears, US Army ret, who worked in Public Affairs in the Army recently called out two DOD disturbingly...
CG/Coast Guard Academy
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