‘Woke Is Back’

We can’t pack up shop and go play golf because, as we’ve repeatedly warned, the Marxist woke mind virus...

Embry-Riddle censors former Congressman Army Lt Col Allen West from saying DEI is racist

By Lt Col. Allen West, USA ret Former US Congressman I have had the absolute pleasure and honor to be a speaker for the...

Canadian military are still goners

The woke mind virus is still raging amongst our military neighbors up North: Canadian Armed Forces apologizes for history of...

Why DEI is so insulting

Why the disastrous CRT/DEI agenda where advocates obsessively pushed selection of people based on skin color, gender or...

Pentagon policy change lets commanders override decisions on transgender troops’ status

By Jessica Botelho | The National News Desk  A new Pentagon policy just made it harder for transgender troops to challenge...

Being Back in “The Yard” 60 Years Later

By Jack Devine, USNA ’65 I just returned from the 60th reunion of our U.S. Naval Academy class of 1965. Aside from the...

Lt Gen Rod Bishop on Charlie Kirk Assassination, DEI in Military & Vaccine Mandate Fallout

Join Wayne Laugesen on Wayne’s Word Podcast for an explosive interview with retired Lt. Gen. Rod Bishop Jr.—a 34-year...

Message from STARRS President Ron Scott

THANK YOU for your ongoing interest in our efforts to eliminate the divisive DEI ideology at and restore meritocracy to the...

Director Tulsi Gabbard Shares Shocking Ways DEI Was Being Used in Our Intelligence Agencies

On October 28 at the Heritage Foundation in Washington, DC, while introducing a premier showing of the new documentary...

Trailer released for Matt Lohmeier documentary

Today the official trailer of “Call Sign Courage: The Matt Lohmeier Story” documentary based on Matt’s...

Air Force Academy grad behind controversial motions to honor Charlie Kirk explains why he did it

By Brett Forrest | KOAA News 5, Colorado Springs Retired Lieutenant General Rod Bishop isn’t backing down from his...

MacArthur Society Commanders Call with Lt. Gen. Rod Bishop, USAF ret

The MacArthur Society held its monthly Commanders Call on 30 October 2025 with special guest Lt. General Rod Bishop, USAF...

Background on fight to honor assassinated USAFA Board of Visitor member Charlie Kirk

A local Colorado radio station interviewed Lt. Gen Rod Bishop, USAF ret, USAFA ’74, in his role as a member of the...

Insubordinate Officers Publicly Attack The Secretary Of War

By John Lucas, USMA ’69 Army Ranger and Special Forces Green Beret Served with the 1st Calvary Division in Vietnam  Trump...

The Great Military Feminization

By Cynical Publius (on X @CynicalPublius), ret US Army Colonel If you are someone who is at all interested in modern...

Don’t Fall for It: Marine Colonel’s Resignation Letter Was a Move of PR Over Principle

By Major Chase Spears, PhD, USA ret There’s a respected tradition of men who stand publicly in their own name and resign in...

The New Total Marxist War

Terrorism, Treason, Lawlessness, and Attacks on the American’s Creed By Lt. Col. Eric Vogel, USAF ret, USAFA ’73...

What it’s REALLY like living in a Communist country under Marxist ideology

A voice that lived through Marxism can strip away illusions in seconds. STARRS & Stripes host Commander Al Palmer, USN...

Saving the Military’s Soul: It Can Be Done If Leaders Choose

By Major Chase Spears, PhD, US Army ret What is the soul of an institution worth? Now I know that organizations don’t have...

War is a Young Man’s Game

By Brig. General Bob Krumm, USA ret Secretary of War Pete Hegseth’s address to the nation’s generals and admirals last week...

Call in “The Grey Beard Brigade”

By Lt. Col. L. Scott Lingamfelter, US Army ret If you are like me, a soldier in the United States Army from 1973 to 2001...

Anti-Vance Pentagon Official Pushes For DEI ‘Acolyte’ To Assume Top Army Post

By Shawn Fleetwood | The Federalist A high-ranking Department of War official who reportedly disdains Vice President J.D...

USAFA Association of Graduates to vote on honorary membership for Charlie Kirk

By Cleo Westin | Colorado Springs Gazette Board members of the U.S. Air Force Academy Association of Graduates will vote on...

Recentering the Rudder at the U.S. Naval Academy

The following article appeared in the U.S. Naval Institute Proceedings. Copyright U.S. Naval Institute. Reprinted with...

Trojan Horses in the Fields of Education and Psychology Undermine War Secretary Hegseth’s Objective to Remove ‘Toxic Ideological Garbage’

STARRS Board of Advisors member Rick Addante, PhD, was interviewed for this article: By J.M. Phelps  | The Gateway Pundit...

Medic

By William B. Scott STARRS Board of Advisors The U.S. military medical corps is in dire straits. Lt. Gen. P.K. Carlton (USAF...

Broken Windows at the Pentagon

By R. Jordan Prescott On September 10, 2001, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld delivered a speech identifying the...

Manhattan Project for Ships

By Capt. Brent Ramsey, USN ret STARRS Board of Advisors Shipbuilding, Maintenance, and Fleet Reactivation Strategy...

Driscoll goes scorched earth on Army buying inertia

STARRS Vice Chairman-At-Large MGen Joe Arbuckle: “Outstanding initiative by SECARMY!  This is 40 yrs overdue, the DOD...

STARRS Board Vice Chairman, Maj. General Joe Arbuckle (Ret.), Appears on Truth & Liberty Show

COLORADO SPRINGS, CO, UNITED STATES, October 14, 2025 /EINPresswire.com/ — On the September 26, 2025 episode, Maj...

Retired Army E-9: “We entered the room on the same team and in the same uniform and came out divided.”

Letter to the Editor by Army veteran Bob Brostoski Dear editor: My letter is in regards to the column by Gail Symons titled...

300 Investigations Opened Since Pete Hegseth Cracked Down on Celebrations of Charlie Kirk’s Death

By Hannah Knudsen | Breitbart News There are reportedly 300 Defense Department investigations that have been opened as a...

DOD to narrow definitions of bullying, hazing, shorten timelines for investigations

STARRS President was interviewed for this article: By Mary Shinn | Denver Gazette As the Department of Defense implements...

The military’s mission is to win wars, not woke dogma

Op-ed by Rep. Kevin McCabe in Anchorage Daily News Rep. Andrew Gray’s recent opinion piece on Secretary of Defense Pete...

Pentagon orders ‘white glove’ treatment for those returning to military service after Covid-19 vaccine refusal

By Haley Britzky | CNN Former troops kicked out of military service for refusing to get the Covid-19 vaccine will receive...

What we want are warriors

By Col. Mackubin Owens, PhD, USMC ret and former Naval War College professor The unusual all-hands meeting of flag and...

Social Justice Warriors Shouldn’t Control West Point

By Doug Truax, USMA ’92 CEO Restoration of America Under War Secretary Pete Hegseth, America’s military is...

VMI’s “Struggle Session”

By Forrest L. Marion, Ph.D., VMI grad Retired U.S. Air Force officer and military historian Nearly five years ago I entitled...

Why use 1990 warfighting capabilities as an end-state

By Lt General Marvin L. Covault, US Army, retired On 30 September, Secretary Hegseth addressed, in person, about 800...

The Department of War Is Back — And About Time

By Army veteran David T. Cloft I entered the Army in July of 1993, before President Clinton’s “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell”...

Mike Rose: Harms and remedies from DEI and the COVID vaccine mandate

Mike Rose, STARRS Exec. Vice President and General Counsel, was on The Intelligence Briefing radio show interviewed by John...

New Navy Under Secretary Cao to ‘supercharge’ force by ditching DEI, raising standards

By Emma Bussey | Fox News Navy Secretary John C. Phelan has tapped new Navy Under Secretary Hung Cao to lead a sweeping...

The State Of Our Political Divide

By Greg Salsbury, PhD STARRS Board of Advisors Conventional wisdom holds that Republicans and Democrats are united in their...

Hegseth changing military mindset

By Sloan Oliver, retired Army officer Weekly Column Reporter, Monroe County Reporter During my military career, I was in...

Leadership Essentials: How to Find the Spirit of Past Naval Heroes Again

By Doug Stanton, retired US Navy Reserves officer The U.S. Navy lauds the life and fighting legacy of some of our nation’s...

The U.S. military is no place for “woke” policies to exist

By James H. “Smokey” Shott Daily Telegraph columnist The U.S. military services have a very specific, narrow and critical...

That Hegseth Speech Was Actually Pretty Good

By Christopher Caldwell | New York Times NYT Contributing Opinion writer When Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth summoned...

Pete Hegseth’s demand that troops be fit — not fat — is essential to US military readiness

By Rich Lowry Doesn’t Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth realize that push-ups are passé? His speech to an audience of generals...

Updates on C19 Vax Reinstatements

Some background from X on what’s been happening regarding reinstatements back to the military. From STARRS General...

Restoring America’s Security – with General Joe Arbuckle on The Truth & Liberty Show

STARRS Vice Chairman Maj. General Joe Arbuckle, USA ret, who also is with FlagOfficers4America, was recently interviewed on...

Responding to Secretary Hegseth’s Speech to Senior Military Leaders

By Larry Purdy, USNA ’68 To listen to some of the critics of Secretary of War Pete Hegseth’s September 30, 2025...

Message from the Chairman of the Board: SECWAR’s Address to His Generals and Admirals — “STARRS on Steroids”

By Lt. General Rod Bishop, USAF ret, USAFA ’74 STARRS Chairman of the Board “What a great day for STARRS! ...

Lt Gen Rod Bishop on Secretary of War’s GOFO Speech

STARRS Chairman Lt. General Rod Bishop, USAF ret, was a guest on Frank Gaffney’s Securing America show discussing...

Antifa Is The Identity-Obsessed Progeny Of A Long Line Of Brutal Marxist Terrorists

“If Antifa is to be defeated, its godless utilitarianism and Marxist identity-obsession that excuses in advance any...

Upcoming Memo Will Further ‘Incentivize and Encourage Service Members to Come Back’ After Years of Retaliation and Reprisal: Pentagon Senior Advisor Stuart Scheller

By J.M. Phelps | Gateway Pundit A Pentagon official recognizes that doing the right thing can be hard, but what he wants...

Mixed Reviews of the Naval Academy Board of Visitor’s Meeting

By Victoria Manning | Restoration News The U.S. Naval Academy Board of Visitors (USNA BOV) September meeting in D.C...

The Failure of Military Correction Boards

By Mark W. Castillon, US Army National Guard veteran The American military rests on a sacred covenant: service demands...

Secretary of War’s Speech is a Game-Changer

By Major Donald E. Vandergriff, USA ret | From his Substack As a lifelong advocate for military reform, I have spent decades...

He Was Pardoned by the President After Standing Up for Liberty

‘Am I Racist?’ Celebrates One Year: How Matt Walsh’s One Question Exposed The DEI Grift

Hegseth won’t meet troops with beards during South Korea trip

Hegseth Tells Troops In Japan ‘Our Strength Is Not Our Diversity—Our Strength Is Our Common Purpose’

‘Crucial Victory’: Appeals Court Revives Challenge to Military COVID Vaccine Mandates

The War for Truth: Efforts to Honor Charlie Kirk Knock Down the Lies

How To Recognize Critical Race Theory

Coast Guard lawsuit shakes up HR rules on vaccine mandates and compliance

Ignoring Accountability for the COVID-19 Shot Leads to Diminished Trust in the Military Under the Leadership of War Secretary Hegseth

Behind the Wall of Government Schools

Fat Loser Generals Can Get Bent

A General Dilemma the War Department Must Remedy

Restoring America’s Warfighting Ethos: Too Many Ribbons… Clean Up America’s Military Awards Program

Lenin Would Love What the Left Is Doing Today

Trump Calls Out Air Force Academy Chapel Construction Disaster

Biden judge orders return of ‘woke’ books to military school libraries

Hegseth brings tough brand to military

Experimental COVID-19 Shots: The Need for Congressional Action on War Department Inaction

Air Force Academy association to revisit honoring activist Charlie Kirk

DEI Defiance at the War Department?

Open Letter

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The Military Academies and a Biden Power Grab

USAFA AOG Board Incident: Retired USAF Colonel calls two Generals “racist Trumpists”, demands they resign

Senator to SECAF: Fire all DEI positions in the Air Force, every single one!

USAFA 1987 Graduate Leroy Homer who Heroically Died as the Co-Pilot of United Flight 93 on 9/11

This bill will help make military officers worthy of our republic

What Kind of Military Does Our Country Need?

Clock Ticks Down on an Army Black Hawk Pilot’s Two Decades of Military Service as Defense Department Inaction Ends His Career

Pentagon Can Expect Legal Challenges To Race-Based Admissions Policies After Supreme Court Ruling, Experts Say

Navy Scraps Biden-Era ‘Climate Action’ Plan, Returns Focus To Warfighting

Lawmakers eye ending affirmative action at military academies

All midshipmen at U.S. Naval Academy to receive ‘diversity’ re-education from a ‘walking safe space’

US Military Academies Focus on Oaths and Loyalty to Constitution as Political Divisions Intensify

Coast Guard and Air Force Academies’ Recent Actions Against the Unvaccinated

Racial Preferences At Our Service Academies Are Not Essential To National Security

U.S. Service Academies Must End Race-Based Admissions

After Coast Guard Academy ‘Excommunicated’ Cadets For Refusing Vaccine, Pleas For Reinstatement Go Unanswered

Diversity Is Not Just a Navy Issue

BOOK REVIEW: Strange New World

America’s Future Depends on Rebuilding the Navy

Response to USAFA Professor

Critical Race Theory (CRT) vs Diversity, Equity and Inclusion...

If ‘Diversity Is Our Strength,’ Why Is Our Military So Weak?

Former Space Force commander speaks out against the CRT/DEI Agenda in the Military

Drew Dix Podcast – Digging DEI from the Trenches

Showing Its True Colors, Diversity of Thought is Clearly Not Included in the DOD’s Inclusivity Agenda

Lohmeier: DEI is Crushing Military Morale and Readiness

Update on Military Vax Mandate

Backlash Over Draft Debate: STARRS Col Ron Scott

LTC Lohmeier: Why do senior military leaders continue to push an agenda like this?

Developments at the Pentagon

Operation Rescue: Saving the Military from Radical DEI/Vaccine Ideologies

Woke Politics Are Endangering Our Military And Our Nation

Dr. Mick Zais BG (USA, ret.), Shoshana Bryen and Dr. Stephen Bryen Join STARRS Board of Advisors

Two Military Chaplains on the STARRS Board of Advisors Ask the Nation to Pray

A Call From STARRS Leadership for Volunteers

STARRS Leadership Announces ‘Rally for Our Republic’

Major Drew Dix, Medal of Honor Recipient, Joins STARRS Board of Advisors

STARRS Announces Cultural War Campaign Effort

STARRS Chairman Interviewed on Fox & Friends

STARRS Releases Weekly Newsletter