By Capt. Brent Ramsey, USN ret STARRS Board of Advisors What are the successes of the Department of War (DOW) since...
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President Trump appoints Charlie Kirk’s widow Erika to Air Force Academy Board of Visitors
By Alex Nitzberg | Fox News President Donald Trump appointed Erika Kirk, the widow of slain conservative activist Charlie...
Soldier Returns to Service After Vaccine Mandate Discharge
(Pentagon News) By Army Staff Sgt. Raymond Valdez, 40th Public Affairs Detachment “It was just a lot of frustration...
STARRS Highlights Major Achievements in 2025 Year of Accomplishments Report
(Press Release) 2025 was quite a year,” said Colonel Ron Scott, Jr., Ph.D., USAF (Ret.), President and CEO of STARRS...
DEI May Be Gone in Name—Its Enforcers Still Hold the Levers of Power
By Mark W. Castillon, Army National Guard Veteran The administration won the policy war. The bureaucracy won the peace—and...
USAFA BOV Chair Rep. Pfluger talks about service academies at Heritage Defense Panel
(Press Release) Congressmen August Pfluger (TX-11), Pat Harrigan (NC-10), and Matt Van Epps (TN-07), three Veterans and...
Virginia Republicans Send Letter to President Trump and Secretary of War Hegseth Regarding State Interference in VMI Governance
(Press Release) Rep. Jen Kiggans (VA-02) joined Reps. Ben Cline (VA-06), Rob Wittman (VA-01), Morgan Griffith (VA-09), and...
Virginia Democrats Move to Require Teaching Jan. 6th as an “Insurrection”
By Jonathan Turley Virginia Democrats are moving to require teachers to tell students that Jan. 6th was an “insurrection”...
In Defense of What? The Real Crisis at America’s War Colleges Isn’t Criticism—It’s Denial
By Col. Rob Maness, USAF ret STARRS Board of Advisors I read Matthew Woessner’s piece “In Defense of War...
Never Fly Alone | A Tribute to America’s Airmen
At the Air Force Association’s 2026 Warfare Symposium, audiences witnessed the world premiere of an original tribute...
Case Study of USAFA’s Due Process Failures and Punitive Overkill: A Path to Reformation
Read the 10-page January 2026 memo by Col. Doug “Stoli” Nikolai, USAF ret, USAFA ’89, Vice Chairman of the...
The Thirty Year Fight Against Anthrax Mandates and Illegal Orders
Dr. Chase Spears (retired Army PAO) welcomes retired Air Force Colonel Tom Rempfer, whose nearly 30-year battle against the...
Miller says Trump ‘unleashed’ military from ‘woke Pentagon’ constraints after years of political correctness
“One of the reasons I fear that some people in this country lost faith in the military and the capacity to use that...
Communist China Active Threat: Inside and Out
By Col. Rob Maness, USAF ret STARRS Board of Advisors Folks, today we’re diving deep into America’s greatest...
War Message From USNA Supe to Midshipmen
Message from the USNA Superintendent USMC Lt. General Michael Borgschulte, USNA ’91, to Naval Academy Midshipmen on...
West Point’s Agincourt Moment: Leadership Clinging to Outdated Tactics While Drones and AI Redefine Warfare
By Matthew Newgent, USMA 1996 I, along with other members of the MacArthur Society, attended the USMA Board of Visitors...
VMI Under Siege: The Fight for Military Excellence is Only Just Beginning
By Bronson Winslow, VMI ’21| Restoration News After regaining full control of Virginia’s government in November...
When State Politics Threatens VMI and National Defense
By the Editorial Staff | VMI Cadet Newspaper Lawmakers have styled Virginia’s House Bill 1377 a “study.”...
Observations of Operation Epic Fury
By Col. Bill Connor, Esq., USA ret, The Citadel ’90 Chairman, STARRS Board of Advisors On Saturday morning I woke up to...
The VMI Experience — Impending Disaster or Restoration
By Carmen D. Villani Jr., VMI ’76 In recent weeks, the Virginia Military Institute (VMI) has come under attack by...
Statement by Chief Pentagon Spokesman, Sean Parnell, on ‘Aligning Senior Service College Opportunities With American Values’
(Pentagon) The Department of War is committed to maximizing taxpayer dollars on warrior education, and to equipping our...
Virginia Democrats Attack VMI
STARRS is mentioned in a Wall Street Journal editorial: By The Editorial Board | Wall Street Journal The progressive...
SecWar: Fixing the military’s Professional Military Education system
Secretary of War Pete Hegseth is cancelling Department of War attendance at woke universities pushing leftist ideologies and...
Department of the Air Force leaders emphasize warfighting readiness at AFA Warfare Symposium
(US Air Force) Senior Department of the Air Force leaders emphasized that warfighting readiness, modernization and...
Supreme Court Refuses to Take COVID-19 Shot Mandate Cases Affecting U.S. Service Members
By J.M. Phelps | Gateway Pundit On Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court denied petitions for Poffenbarger v. Meink and Doster v...
West Point cadet booted from Army after using AI to create nude image of woman
He forgot the “Honor” part… By Eve Sampson | Army Times A West Point cadet used artificial intelligence to...
What VMI Contributes to the U.S. Officer Corps
By Jonathan K. Corrad, VMI 2005 As Virginia lawmakers debate proposed changes affecting the Virginia Military...
Hegseth Says Scouting America Support to Continue Upon Org’s Commitment to Drop DEI
(Pentagon News) Secretary of War Pete Hegseth today announced that the War Department will conditionally continue to provide...
Cultural Change in the Air Force
Under Secretary of the Air Force Matt Lohmeier, at the Air & Space Forces Symposium: “Getting the right leaders in...
Womack Elected to Ninth Term as Chairman of West Point Board of Visitors
The MacArthur Society had eight people attend the USMA BOV meeting on Monday, February 23, 2026 in Washington, DC...
Supreme Court declines COVID vaccine mandate cases
By Patricia Kime | Military Times The U.S. Supreme Court has declined to hear two cases filed on behalf of Air Force...
Coast Guard Reinstates 56 Members Who Were Dismissed for Refusing COVID Vaccines Under Biden Administration
(DHS Press Release) The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced Monday that 56 members of the United States Coast...
DHS Kills $58M Coast Guard Marketing Deal Over LGBTQ, DEI Ideology
By Hailey Gomez | The Daily Caller News Foundation The Department of Homeland Security rejected a nearly $58 million...
Bills to reshape VMI board and create review task force spark alumni, lawmaker backlash
By Jaida Simone | ABC WSET-13 News A growing debate over proposed legislation affecting the Virginia Military Institute is...
How Trump Can Rescue Military Families Trapped In Woke DOD Schools
By Amber Todoroff | The Federalist One of the few silver linings of the pandemic era was a parental awakening as they got...
Long March of Cultural Marxism in America
James Atticus Bowden, a 1972 West Point graduate, gave a presentation on the “Long March of Cultural Marxism in...
Making The Merchant Marine Great Again
By Sean Duffy, Secretary of Transportation For decades, America’s maritime industry has been adrift. As China’s capabilities...
Hegseth criticizes godless left and divisive DEI
By Ellen Mitchell | The Hill Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth criticized the “godless” left and foreign ideologies while...
Accreditation for Service Academies – Brig. General Mick Zais, PhD, USA ret
The MacArthur Society held a Commanders Call with guest speaker Brig. General Mick Zais, PhD, US Army retired, USMA...
Ft. Bragg elementary school teacher identifies as a “transgender wolf”
Stunning case out of Bragg, via a post on X: “A group of military families at Fort Bragg is expressing deep concern...