The attacks of September 11 reshaped American security, but the most revealing lessons often sit inside the logistics, the improvisation, and the human decisions made in the first hours. On this episode of STARRS & Stripes podcast (watch or listen...
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Remembering 9/11: Air Force Colonel Buzz Patterson
By Lt. Colonel Robert “Buzz”Patterson, USAF ret STARRS Board of Advisors On the morning of September 11, 2001, I...
Remembering 911: Army Colonel Allen West
Lt. Colonel Allen West, US Army retired STARRS Board of Advisors Sage Steele sat down with Colonel Allen West, combat...
Remembering 911: Aviation Week Journalist Bill Scott
By Bill Scott STARRS Board of Advisors This was from a September 2021 Aviation Week podcast where Bill was one of the people...
Remembering 911: Air Force General Richard Comer
By Major General Richard Comer, USAF retired, USAFA 1973 STARRS Ambassador Well, it happened that I was airborne when 9/11...
Remembering 911: Air Force General Christopher Walker
By Brigadier General Christopher Walker, USAF ret, USAFA 1988 STARRS Board of Advisors I was in a dentist’s chair, getting...
Remembering 911: Army Colonel Bill Connor
By Colonel Bill Connor, USA Army retired Chairman of the STARRS Board of Advisors As we approach the 25th anniversary of the...
Remembering 911: Air Force General Gar Graham
By Major General Gar S. Graham, USAF DC (ret) STARRS Board of Advisors Twenty-five years ago I was TDY at Stone Mountain in...
Remembering 911: Air Force Colonel Ron Scott
COLORADO SPRINGS, CO, UNITED STATES, September 9, 2026 /EINPresswire.com/ — Dr. Ron Scott, president and CEO of Stand...
Remembering 911: Air Force Colonel Rob Maness
By Col. Rob Maness, USAF ret STARRS Board of Advisors Transcript from September 11, 2025: “Thank you very much, Sean...
Remembering 9/11: Air Force General Rod Bishop
By Lt. General Rod Bishop, USAF ret, USAFA 1974 STARRS Chairman Emeritus of the Board of Directors Member, STARRS Board of...
Remembering 9/11: Aviation Museum Executive Al Palmer
By Lt. Commander Al Palmer, US Navy retired Former F-4 Wild Weasel Pilot during the Vietnam War STARRS Texas State Leader...
Remembering 9/11: Navy Captain Brent Ramsey
By Captain Brent Ramsey, US Navy, ret STARRS Board of Advisors I was at work at the Construction Battalion Center, Gulfport...
Remembering 9/11: Army General Joe Arbuckle
By Major General Joe Arbuckle, US Army retired Vice Chairman Emeritus, STARRS Board of Directors Member, STARRS Board of...
Remembering 9/11: Pentagon Advisor Dr. Lani Kass
By Lani Kass, PhD STARRS Board of Advisors I was on sabbatical at the Pentagon, working for then LTG John Abizaid, Director...
Remembering 9/11: Air Force General Paul Carlton
By Lt. General (Dr.) Paul K. Carlton, Jr , USAF (Ret.), USAFA 1969 STARRS Board of Advisors I was in the Pentagon on 9/11...
Remembering 9/11: CIA Contractor Cindy Kwitchoff
By Cynthia Kwitchoff Former CIA employee then contractor, (1989-2013) STARRS Webmaster I was working from my home office...
The Uniform Doesn’t Come With a First Amendment Waiver
By Jay Rogers Picture the scene. A U.S. Air Force major stands on the Capitol steps in his service uniform, ribbons and all...
Statement by New Acting Secretary of the Army, Adam Telle
Posted on X: I am honored to have been selected by President Trump to serve as Acting Secretary of the Army under the...
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The Day Evil Came to America—and the Courage That Answered It
By Lt. Col. Darin Gaub, USA ret Twenty-five years after the attacks of September 11, America faces a dangerous temptation:...
Pentagon, HHS Investigating Whether COVID Vaccines Contributed to Military Deaths
By American Greatness News Staff The Trump administration is investigating whether COVID-19 vaccines contributed to the...
Democrats Invite Military Women To Freeze Their Eggs So They Can Go Fight Wars
By Ashley Bateman | The Federalist The military has announced plans to cover costs for sperm and egg freezing for service...
Trump Seeks SCOTUS Backing to Uphold Military Trans Ban
By Quinn Delamater | The Washington Stand President Donald Trump is asking the United States Supreme Court for its approval...
The Media Lies About The Pentagon – COL Rob Maness
CDM host L. Todd Wood, USAFA ’86, interviews Col. Rob Maness, USAF ret, member of STARRS Board of Advisors, about the...
Airman: “Something happening at the front gate of my base that is absolutely unacceptable, and frankly I’m stunned it’s been allowed to continue.”
What kind of horrible thing happened on Kirtland Air Force Base in New Mexico???? Officials at the gate have been saying to...
Space Force Spacey Wars
Note, this was written in July 2018. Goes to show the wonky wokeness has been around for some time. Bill Scott, mentioned...
The Washington Post Embarrasses Itself Trying to Embarrass Me
By Col. Kurt Schlichter, USA ret How can you trust regime media reporters to report anything right when they can’t even...
The System is What the System Does: The Anatomy of a Deep State Smear
A nothingburger “scandal” was created by the leftist legacy media in their continual desperate search for...
President Trump nominates Hung Cao to be Secretary of the Navy
Commander-in-Chief’s post on Truth Social about Acting Secretary of the Navy Capt. Hung Cao, USN ret, USNA ’96:...
Judge who axed 9/11 mastermind’s confession blamed military’s ‘conservative tendencies’ for rising ‘extremism’
By Peter Pinedo | Fox News The judge who recently threw out a confession by Khalid Sheikh Mohammed: the alleged mastermind...
Young Americans need to learn communism’s true history
And maybe everyone else needs a refresher in it. Washington Examiner Editorial Socialism is gaining ground, particularly...
Policy Brief: Assessing the Marxist-Islamist Alliance Aimed at America’s Heart
By Wade Miller, US Marine Corps infantryman, combat veteran Executive Director, Center for Renewing America The accelerating...
Staff sergeant, colonel reinstated after leaving over COVID-19 vaccine refusal
By Capt. Jennifer French | US Army News Staff Sgt. Austin Waring stood on Sabre Airfield Aug. 7 surrounded by family, fellow...
The Seven Years of History behind Seditious Six
By @DataRepublican on X What the legacy Pentagon press corps refused to cover. The Seditious Six video did not came out of...
Major Brandon Oberkamp’s Struggle Highlights Military’s Treatment of Shot Refusers
By J. M. Phelps | The Gateway Pundit Major Brandon Oberkamp’s promotion to Lieutenant Colonel was rescinded, and he received...
Don’t Schedule A Meeting Without An Ask
By Capt. Tom Burbage, USN ret, USNA ’69 President, The Calvert Task Group A wise man once said, “Don’t schedule a...
Air Force Awarded Nearly $750,000 For AI-Powered DEI Training Tool Under Biden
Besides the wokeness, it looks like USAFA was/is using AI companions instead of humans to train/instill character in cadets:...
Eighteen Years Ago
By Lt. Col. Allen West, USA ret Executive Director of the American Constitutional Rights Union STARRS Board of Advisor I am...
Transgenders and supporters more likely to be leftwing and justify political violence
Another reason not to have transgenders in the military. (Health & Human Services) The U.S. Department of Health and...
West Point sued for allegedly firing professor over climate change stance
More background on woke profs at West Point and how the academy is getting rid of wokeness. By Roger Hannigan Gilson | Times...
Military Education Needs a Strategic Makeover
Key quote: “What has been visible in recent times is the intellectual sludge left by 20 plus years of forced social...
Pentagon fires longtime publisher, editor, reporter from military newspaper Stars and Stripes
By Joseph A. Wulfsohn | Fox News The Pentagon fired the top brass at the military newspaper Stars and Stripes and one of its...
Air Force Major Charged With 10 Counts After Calling For Trump’s Impeachment, Conviction
By Derek VanBuskirk | The Daily Caller News Foundation A U.S. Air Force major has been arrested for a second time after...
Military vets train citizens on removing Marxist/Islamist networks in communities
By Emily Medeiros | The Daily Signal A group with special operations and intelligence skills and filmmaker Chris Burgard...
BOOK REVIEW “Revolution: The Birth of the Greatest Nation in the History of the World”
By Capt. Brent Ramsey, USN ret STARRS Board of Advisors Review of Revolution: The Birth of the Greatest Nation in the...
The Army Azimuth
By Gen. Christopher C. LaNeve 40th Vice Chief of Staff of the Army Since 1775, the United States Army has defended our...
USAFA Superintendent Change of Command Full Ceremony
Video of the ceremony. STARRS Chairman Emeritus Lt. General Rod Bishop, USAF ret, USAFA ’74 was there in the bleachers...
Your Son Doesn’t Want You To Complain About His Deployment
By Chris Bray, PhD, veteran Army infantry sergeant Families do this. It’s normal. Also, it’s usually unnecessary and...
Culture War in the Ranks: How Biden’s Executive Orders Reshaped Defense Priorities
Note the date–the first thing he did once Democrats were back in power. By Zachary Patton | Washington Stand In early...
Implementation Guidance for the Reinstatement and Reintegration of Marines Affected by the Covid-19 Vaccination Mandate
(MARADMIN) This MARADMIN provides Marine Corps implementation guidance for the reinstatement, reintegration, and...
Leftwing USAFA Grad Gets Arrested Again
Update on the completely dishonorable Air Force Major Jason Watson—a 2009 US Air Force Academy graduate in the USAF for 17...
USecAF Lohmeier visits Tyndall AFB amid reconstruction
(USAF) Under Secretary of the Air Force Matt Lohmeier visited Tyndall Air Force Base, Aug. 13, to observe how the 325th...
Former SPLC exec who testified before Congress on “white supremacy in the military” indicted and arrested for fraud
(Via Grok) In February 2020, Southern Poverty Law executive Heidi Beirich testified before the House Armed Services...
Exhausted Hope And The Bureaucratic Behemoth
By Mark W. Castillon, Army National Guard Veteran The Department of War has already shown that administrative outcomes once...
Chaos at the Gates
By Lt. Col Darin Gaub, US Army ret On his Veritas Vincit Substack Five years ago, the world watched one of the most...
Unconventional Warfare, Unconventional Reading
By Maj. Joseph Miranda, US Army ret STARRS Ambassador From his Substack GamerCadre which runs articles on military...
It’s a Trap! When War College Auditors are the Problem
By @ZeroDEIUSA on X Former executive, business owner and conservative university professor The Foxes Are Guarding the...
About This “Red/Green Alliance”
By retired US Army Colonel @CynicalPublius on X If you follow American politics, you have likely recently heard about the...
Reagan understood the domestic threat
From STARRS Vice Chairman Emeritus, Maj. General Joe Arbuckle, USA ret: Highly recommend this remarkable 1979 interview of...
How Fear of the ‘Islamophobia’ Label Gave Islamism Room to Grow
West Point Welcomes 62nd Superintendent
The Locust Effect
US military base schools put new emphasis on Western civilization and Christianity
Airman discharged under vaccine mandate returns to guide others back
The Cognitive Weapon System: Under Secretary’s AFSA speech champions authentic leadership, Deliberate Learning
Unearthed Data Sheds Light On Military’s Transgenderism Explosion Under Biden
Pete Hegseth cuts the fat out of a bloated, politicized Pentagon
Air Force General Reinstated After COVID Vaccine Mandate Fight
MacArthur Society Commanders Call with Col. Bill Prince, US Army ret, USMA 1970
DAF updates COVID-19 reinstatement process, reduces time for members returning to service
America’s Political Divide Is a Strategic Vulnerability
Classical Origins and the Beauty of Order in America
USAFA Welcomes Lt. Gen. Paul D. Moga as 23rd Superintendent
A Wolverine in the Boat
The Red-Green Alliance Is Coming for America
New Books by Two STARRS Board of Advisors Members
SECNAV Memo: Warrior Ethos
Brig. Gen. Christopher Walker on his DEI experience in the military
Inside the Pentagon’s COVID Reckoning with C. Scott Duncan
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Air Force / Air Force Academy
Air University grants Newt Gingrich honorary degree
“Gingrich is the longest-serving instructor of the Joint Flag Officer Warfighting Course for major generals. He also...
Military leadership is trying to hide its efforts to force leftist ideology on the ranks
By Col. Ron Scott, PhD, USAF ret, USAFA ’73 STARRS President Since the summer of 2020, members of Stand Together...
Army / West Point
US Military Academies Producing Beauty Queens
Really?? Sign of things getting quite off track at the academies. From Task & Purpose: The women who wear the crowns...
Lawmakers eye ending affirmative action at military academies
Thursday’s Supreme Court decision which ended the use of affirmative action in college admissions contained a carve out for...
John Frankman, who was forced out of Army over COVID vaccine, wants to fill Gaetz’s seat
Black Republican calls for total, permanent abolition of DEI: ‘I want to earn every opportunity on merit’
West Point Trying to Derail Their Next Boss, Pete Hegseth
SecDef Pete Hegseth Will Be a Welcome Injection of Vitamin I (Infantry)
Navy / Naval Academy
Reviewing ‘We All Wear Green, We All Bleed Red’
By Capt. Brent Ramsey, USN ret STARRS Board of Advisors Larry Purdy has written a lengthy article titled “We All Wear Green...
Navy takes down LGBTQ+ Pride post on Instagram and Twitter, removes rainbow banner
The U.S. Navy has taken down posts celebrating LGBTQ+ Pride month on social media, including rainbow banners that read...
When a Judge Incorrectly Rules Race as Legit in Naval Academy Admissions (Part 3 of 3)
Naval professor’s new book flags leftist ideology infiltrating military
Deep State in the Pentagon waiting to undo everything Hegseth and Trump have accomplished
Racial Preferences At Our Service Academies Are Not Essential To National Security
CG/Coast Guard Academy
Coast Guard commandant terminated over border lapses, recruitment, DEI focus
SECDEF reminds Academy Supes: “These are MILITARY ACADEMIES, not civilian universities.”
Coast Guard Academy Gives Seven Cadets 24 Hours to Get Off Base After Denying Vaccine Mandate Appeals
How CRT made its way into military academies
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