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Here’s The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly In Congress’s New Defense Bill
By Col. William A. Woodruff, US Army lawyer, retired After The Federalist published a call for Congress to fix the broken...
Reforming the Promotion System at DOD
By Stu Scheller, Marine Veteran, former LTC now Pentagon official I just filmed a video with the Secretary of Defense, the...
Medical Conditions Disqualifying for Accession into the Military
(DOD Statement) To ensure the readiness and high standards of the America’s fighting force, the Secretary of Defense...
The Case for a Constitutional Training Culture in the Military
By Maj. Chase Spears, USA ret “I’m not loyal to a president. I’m supporting and defending the Constitution.” This line has...
Exposing DEI: Understanding the Strategy Behind Institutional Indoctrination
A lot of important, eye-opening information in STARRS July Town Hall with guest speaker Dr. Stanley Ridgley, a former Army...
Senior Military Leaders Need to Show the Courage to Take on the ‘Tough’ Questions, Says Retired Army Public Affairs Officer
By J.M. Phelps | Gateway Pundit A recent podcast by Shawn Ryan caught the attention of service members and veterans...
As an Esteemed Navy Commander is Subjected to Investigation, ‘You Come for All of Us’ Becomes the Rallying Cry for Former Service Members
By J.M. Phelps | Gateway Pundit On July 9, active-duty Navy Commander Robert A. Green, Jr., announced on X that he has...
U.S. Navy commander now investigated for exposing ‘unconstitutional and illegal actions by military leadership’ during COVID-shot mandates
By J.M. Phelps | WorldNet Daily One of the U.S. military’s most high-profile and respected whistleblowers, active...
Persecution in the Air Force
Chase Spears hosts Brennan ‘Skip’ Schilperoort, an Air Force major who faced persecution for resisting unlawful...
The Diversity Game Is a Gigantic Con
By George Leef | James G. Martin Center for Academic Renewal In his famous story “The Emperor’s New Clothes,” Hans...
Why hasn’t DEI in DOD been eliminated yet?
By John Hughes, USMA ’96 On 27 January 2025, President Trump made good on his campaign promise and officially ended...
Army secretary vows ‘grievous error’ targeting pro-life groups will never happen again
By Morgan Phillips | Fox News Army Secretary Dan Driscoll called a set of training slides that deemed pro-life groups as...
Drew Dix Podcasts – Our Changing Culture, DOD Contracting and more
Some of the latest podcasts from Drew Dix, member of the STARRS Board of Advisors: Our Changing Culture Drew Dix examines...
Supplemental Notice of Board of Visitors of the U.S. Air Force Academy Meeting
From the Federal Register. The Air Force Academy now joins with the other military service academies in allowing the public...
House Passes FY26 Defense Bill, Investing in America’s Military Superiority
Key items for our lane in this House Appropriations press release: Codifying President Trump’s executive actions to end...
Operation Midnight Hammer: Proof of the Trump Administration’s De-wokeification of our Military
By Nicole Kiprilov | Independent Women’s Forum After four years of the deliberate and relentless politicization and...
Naval Academy Settles on Shorter List of Banned Books as Pentagon Panel Weighs Ultimate Decision
By Konstantin Toropin | Military.com As the legal court battle over the Trump administration’s efforts to ban...
Republicans join House Dems to bar Hegseth’s military base name changes
By Cybele Mayes-Osterman and Davis Winkie | USA TODAY A House committee attempted to ban Defense Secretary Pete...
West Point expands academic modernization with development of Department of History and War Studies
By Maj. Renee Sanjuan USMA Associate Dean for Communications West Point is transforming the Department of History into the...
The Vax War Against Military Service Members
By Col Rob Maness, USAF ret STARRS Board of Advisors Secretary Hegseth’s words echo across the force “The Chiefs of all the...
Time to Appoint an Alum to Run USMMA
Op-ed in The Maritime Executive: There are five United States Federal Academies – the United States Military Academy...
Marine 3-Star to Lead Naval Academy, Davids Heading to OPNAV Staff
By Mallory Shelbourne | USNI News A Marine Corps officer is in line to lead the U.S. Naval Academy for the first time in...
General Flynn Challenges DEI, Champions Warrior Ethos and Honor at West Point Board Meeting
By Matthew Newgent, USMA ’96 MacArthur Society Board Member Lt General Mike Flynn, USA ret, said at the West Point...
Congress Broke The Military, Now It Must Fix It
By Col. William A. Woodruff, US Army lawyer, retired Congress created the “woke” military. Now it has the responsibility to...
Military libraries ignore Trump’s LGBT executive order
By Bethany Mandel | Washington Examiner President Donald Trump’s January 2025 Executive Order 14190, Ending Radical...
Here Are the 596 Books Being Banned by Defense Department Schools
(Military.com) Children’s biographies of trailblazing transgender public figures. An award-winning novel reflecting on...
Pentagon Withdraws Promotion for Admiral Who Allowed Drag Shows on USS Ronald Reagan
By Joshua Arnold | The Washington Stand The U.S. Department of Defense has withdrawn its nomination to promote Rear...
SECDEF Hegseth speaks to students at Turning Point USA conference
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth gave a speech to a conference full of young, patriotic people who could potentially join...
Sen. Banks Blocks Promotion of Woke Air Force Colonel Advocating Race, Gender-Based Promotion
By Bradley Jaye | Breitbart News Sen. Jim Banks (R-IN) has placed a hold on the promotion of an Air Force colonel...
Do the President & SecDef Orders On Unlawful COVID Actions Matter?
By Col. Rob Maness, USAF ret STARRS Board of Advisors I’m getting the distinct impression they don’t. As our friend J.M...
Pentagon pulls all military speakers from ‘globalist’ Aspen Security Forum
By Jerry Dunleavy | Just the News The Pentagon has pulled roughly a dozen high-ranking U.S. military officials who had been...
“They will face an enemy with ZERO care for diversity.”
Lt. General Michael Flynn, USA ret is a Presidential Appointee to the West Point Board of Visitors and attended his first...
Letter to the Editor: Content of Their Character
Lt. Col. Michael Uecker, USAF ret, USAFA ’71 and also a STARRS Ambassador, wrote this letter to the editor of the...
DEI Still Infects West Point
By Will Thibeau and Jeshua Grose DEI employees are still running amok in the hallowed halls of the United States Military...
Pentagon Ditches Admiral Who Allowed Drag Queen Performances On Aircraft Carrier
By Mary Margaret Olohan | The Daily Wire The Defense Department is withdrawing the nomination of Rear Adm. Michael “Buzz”...
Leftist Accrediting Organizations Influence U.S. Military Academies
By Victoria Manning | Restoration News Agencies responsible for approving accreditation of America’s five military service...
Conscientious Objector USAFA ’23 Grad has to pay back $150K
Update on that 2023 USAFA cadet who became a conscientious objector after Israel’s bombing of Gaza. We covered her...
USAFA Board of Visitors Meeting – August 7, 2025
The next US Air Force Academy Board of Visitors meeting open to the public will be on Thursday, August 7 from 8:30 am to...
OH NO! The Air Force Bans False Eyelashes
Whatever will female warfighters do? New USAF regulations drop: Air Force updates, clarifies DAFI 36-2903 guidance The Air...