By John Hughes, USMA ’96 “WASHINGTON, March 25 (Reuters) – China remains the top military and cyber threat to...
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Dereliction of Duty at the Highest Level
By Tony Lentini, USMA ’71 Former President Joe Biden has cancer. He also suffers from dementia. Anyone with no agenda...
At Annapolis, not so much who is admitted, but who is hired
By CDR Salamander | Substack This took place in the Biden Administration. With the discussions about what is going on with...
West Point Gets Back To Business: It’s Training for Army Officers, NOT a Liberal Arts College
By CDR Breck Henderson, US Navy veteran Dr. Graham Parsons, a professor of philosophy at West Point, recently published an...
Restoring Veterans Harmed by the Unlawful Anthrax Vax Order
By Col. Rob Maness, USAF ret STARRS Board of Advisors From his podcast: The anthrax vaccine was integrated into my Air Force...
FY 2026 National Defense Authorization Act: America First Priorities
(AFPI) Every year since 1961, Congress has passed the National Defense Authorization Act to support our service members and...
Most books pulled from Naval Academy library are back on the shelves in latest DEI turn
By Lolita Baldor | Associated Press All but a few of the nearly 400 books that the U.S. Naval Academy removed from its...
House Democrats look to bolster trans military protections
Members of Congress still pushing the woke ideology agenda on the military: By Brooke Migdon | The Hill House Democrats...
Congressman: Keep Our Military Focused On Readiness, Not Social Experiments
By Rep. Barry Moore As a proud American, a staunch conservative, and a supporter of our men and women in uniform, I believe...
Secretary Hegseth Statement Directing DOD Review of U.S. Military Withdrawal From Afghanistan
(DOD Press Release) Three and a half years ago the Biden Administration’s disastrous and embarrassing withdrawal from...
West Point Trades Real Reform For Illusory Paper Compliance
If the academy cannot produce officers loyal to the Constitution, its leadership is not just failing, it is compromising...
BOOK REVIEW: Liberal Bolshevism — An American Tragedy
By Lt Col. Eric Vogel, USAF ret, USAFA ’73 This is a book review of Alexander G. Markovsky’s Liberal Bolshevism:...
West Point’s leftist-if-not-Marxist plebe American History textbook
Lou Coatney, a retired government and academic librarian who attended West Point in 1964 and 1965, wrote the below article...
Senators call for investigation into Milley’s Chain of Command Interference
(Press Release) Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Jim Banks (R-Ind.) are renewing calls for the Department of Defense (DOD)...
The US military is making a comeback thanks to Trump
By Taylor Hathorn After years of decline in both recruitment and retention, alongside an air of neglect for our nation’s...
What happens when you tell a philosopher ‘No’
By Owen Anderson We need more philosophers to resign from their university posts. Graham Parsons, a philosophy professor at...
He’s the right man, in the right place, right time and just in the nick of time
By Buck Torske, retired Navy Chief Petty Officer It’s obvious “mainstream” press and media can’t stop beating up all things...
Buh-Bye West Point
By pyrene* Full Professor Graham Parsons got a long screed on the sanctimony of his virtue-signaling resignation from the...
Low-Trust Military
By Major Chase Spears, USA PAO ret Sir Winston Churchill is known to have remarked that “In wartime, truth is so precious...
Retirement from Coast Guard offers time to reflect on wrongs, hope for better times under Trump
By J.M. Phelps | American Family News Looking back on a 20-year career in the U.S. Coast Guard, a retired IT chief says an...
Kendall Qualls: The Root Of The Problems We Face
STARRS Board of Advisors member Kendall Qualls, President of TakeCharge, was on the organization’s new podcast...
Forgive? First we need to drag out and discuss what we cannot forget
“Until we have a full Truth and Reconciliation Commission-like public accounting about the active discriminatory...
SASC Advances DOD Civilian Nominations
(SASC Press Release) This week, the Senate Armed Services Committee voted by roll call to report out favorably the...
CRT/DEI can be technically removed but decades of indoctrination persists
The Marxist-based CRT/DEI/Woke ideology can TECHNICALLY be removed from the military but eliminating the baked-in...
Command Board at USAF Base Vandalized
A command board from the 55th Wing unit at Offutt Air Force Base in Nebraska was vandalized with the letters...
Update: 10th Medical Group at USAFA Command Board
Update to this story, the photos of the Commander-in-Chief and Secretary of Defense have been posted. STARRS President Ron...
DOD Issues Implementation Guidance on Separation of Service Members With Gender Dysphoria
By C. Todd Lopez | DOD News Yesterday, military leaders across the force were issued guidance from the Defense Department on...
Update on DEI Situation at West Point and the Military
MacArthur Society President Col. Bill Prince, USA ret and a 1970 graduate of the US Military Academy gives an...
Congressman introduces Readiness Over Wokeness Act
(Press Release) Rep. Barry Moore (AL-01) introduced the Readiness Over Wokeness Act. This legislation will codify President...
US Dept of Transportation Secretary Announces USMMA’s Christ on the Water Painting is Moving out of the Basement
(Press Release) U.S. Secretary of Transportation Sean P. Duffy announced that the historic Christ on the Water painting will...
Whatever happened to that woke USAF Colonel blocked by the Senate?
So many posts on the STARRS website regarding Air Force Col. Ben Johnsson whom Republicans kept blocking from becoming a...
Senator Introduces Legislation to Expand Classical Learning Test to Service Academies
(Press Release) Senator Jim Banks (R-Ind.) introduced the Promote Classical Learning Act. The bill requires U.S. military...
There Are No Race Theorists in Foxholes
By Doug Philippone, West Point graduate, former Army Major When the U.S. invaded Iraq in 2003, I was commanding a Third...
Meink Confirmed as 27th Secretary of the Air Force
By Chris Gordon | Air & Space Forces The Senate confirmed Dr. Troy Meink to be the 27th Secretary of the Air Force May...
Senator Backs Trump Official’s Attempt To ‘Bring Jesus Up From The Basement’ — Literally
By Leif Le Mahieu | Daily Wire Senator Ted Cruz praised Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy for promising to restore a...
Diversity Is Not Our Strength
Above photo: Recruits take the Naturalization Oath of Allegiance to the United States of America during a naturalization...
West Point Profs and Staff: “Should they resist Mr. Hegseth’s order or resign in protest?”
Some insight into what is going on with professors at West Point can be found in this Washington Post article, The...
Judge Allows CIA To Fire Official Who Played Role In Biden’s Military COVID-19 Vaccine Mandate
By Hailey Gomez | The Daily Caller News Foundation A federal district judge is allowing the CIA to fire the agency’s...
Freedom’s Last Stand: Understanding Marxist Strategies in America
Alexander Markovsky, a Soviet immigrant who grew up as the son of a high-ranking Communist Party member, brings his rare and...
Leftist West Point Professor Leaves in a Huff Over the End of Brainwashing
By Streiff | Red State A civilian West Point professor made a public spectacle of his exit from the US Military Academy and...