By Brig. General Mick Zais, PhD, USA ret, USMA ’69 Vice Chairman of STARRS Board of Directors For years, Americans...
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How the Chinese Communists Target American Freedom
In this episode of STARRS & Stripes podcast, host CDR Al Palmer, USN ret, talks with cybersecurity leader Casey Fleming...
Reflecting On Those Who Gave The Last Full Measure
By Lt. Col. Darin Gaub, USA ret Today, we gather not for celebration, but for remembrance. We gather beneath the flag of the...
The DEI Business Case Is Falling Apart
Studies increasingly link diversity quotas to weaker performance, lower morale, and operational decline. By Lipton Matthews...
God, Duty and the Return of Moral Clarity at West Point
Lt. Col. Robert Maginnis, USA ret, USMA ’73 | Fox News Op-Ed On Saturday morning, I sat watching the rain fall over...
Pete Hegseth tears into DEI, ‘woke military’ in fiery West Point graduation speech
By Geoff Earle | New York Post Secretary of War Pete Hegseth tore into leaders who’ve tried to turn the military into “woke...
The Art of War, Not the Deal
By Lt. Col. Allen West, USA ret STARRS Board of Advisors Executive Director of the American Constitutional Rights Union...
Unmasked: Vaccine Safety Signals
Email from Dr. Scott Sturman, USAFA ’72: Ron, several weeks ago you distributed an email regarding VAERS, where one of...
How the Digital Switchboard Turns Conformity into Evil
By Greg Salsbury, PhD STARRS Board of Advisors History’s worst crimes are not usually carried out by cartoon villains. They...
SERE, the USAF, and the Iran Rescue
By Kit Bobko USAFA ’91 USAF veteran The Schwarzenegger-movie heroics and flat-out audacity the Air Force and her sister...
SecWar Hegseth Commencement Speech at West Point
Secretary of War Pete Hegseth gave the commencement speech at West Point and railed against the radical Marxist ideology...
SECNAV signs USNA son’s commission on graduation day
Great story from the Acting Secretary of Navy Hung Cao, USNA ’96, who said on X: “Thirty years after I...
Summaries of Political Candidates Views on DEI, Vax, Immigration
Here are summaries from the questions we asked political candidates in our STARRS “Candidates Survey” on DEI, Vax and more:...
STARRS “Candidates Survey” on DEI, Vax and more
STARRS sent a survey to political candidates running for office across America asking for their positions on DEI, the Covid...
Why Is My Alma Mater USAFA Allowing Professors Who Undermine The Commander-In-Chief?
By L. Todd Wood, USAFA ’86 Dr. Ryan Burke is a Professor of Military & Strategic Studies (MSS) at the U.S. Air...
What It Really Means to Be a Man
STARRS President Col. Ron Scott, PhD, USAF ret, highly recommends this video: From the video description: What does it mean...
A Plea from a Former Green Beret: Wake Up, America
By Lt. Colonel Stephen D. Cook, USA ret I served 25 years in the United States Army, much of it as a Green Beret, training...
VMI Grad: What hills do we press upon now?
By Bret R. Wilhite, VMI ‘07 What are we preserving – and what are we trading away? Not long ago, there was a time when the...
To the VMI Family: VMI’s Single Sanction Honor System – Not Ordinary
By Carmen Villani, VMI ’76 Corps of Cadets, Alumni, and VMI Community: As a 1976 graduate and having the privilege and...
Where Eagles Dare
By Lt. Col. Allen West, USA ret STARRS Board of Advisors Executive Director of the American Constitutional Rights Union ...
Deal Team Six: Finally, the Pentagon Makes Defense Contractors an Offer They Can’t Refuse
By Jay Rogers On May 7, Secretary of War Pete Hegseth released a video that made me laugh out loud in the best way possible...
Air Force updates religious accommodation process, eliminates Religious Resolution Teams
(USAF) The Department of the Air Force released a guidance memorandum updating DAFI 52-201, Religious Freedom in the...
Children’s Health Defense and STARRS Support National Release of Duty to Disobey Documentary
Children’s Health Defense and STARRS are supporting the national release of Duty to Disobey, a documentary examining...
Secretary Hegseth Announces Department-Wide Review of the Military Legal System
Secretary Hegseth has announced that he is convening a special review panel to conduct a comprehensive, long-term...
CIA Whistleblower Accuses Anthony Fauci of Covid Cover-Up at Bombshell Hearing
By Sean James | Mediaite A current CIA employee accused Dr. Anthony Fauci of “injecting” himself into the intelligence...
‘Duty, Honor, Country’: The Class of 2026 and MacArthur’s enduring mandate
By Congressman Matt Van Epps, USMA 2005 As the Class of 2026 prepares to graduate from the United States Military Academy, I...
How the Soviet Union, Russia, and China Have Systematically Subverted the United States — And What the Results Look Like
By Emzari Gelashvili Former Member of the Georgian Parliament Former senior official in Georgia’s Ministry of Defense...
BOB WOODSON: Wake up, black America. Excellence is our inheritance
STARRS encouraged the Air Force Academy to have Robert Woodson as one the speakers at their National Character and...
Rebuttal by Mike Rose to Legal Opinion by Skip Morgan
Ladies and Gentlemen, Attorney Skip Morgan posted on the USAFA AOG Basecamp site his memorandum below and in the attachment...
Mike Rose Statement to USAFA AOG: Amending AOG Bylaw
STATEMENT TO AFA AOG BOARD OF DIRECTORS RE AMENDING AOG BYLAW ART. I, SECT 3d MIKE ROSE, AFA ’69 24 Apr 26...
Kim Monson Radio Show interview with MGen Joe Arbuckle
STARRS Board of Directors member Major General Joe Arbuckle, USA ret, was interviewed today on the Kim Monson Radio Show...
Statement by Chief Pentagon Spokesman on New Memos: “Establishment of the Dept of War C19 Reinstatement & Reconciliation Task Force” and “Reinstating Service Members Unjustly Discharged Under the C19 Vax Mandate”
(Pentagon) The Department of War continues to take decisive action in support of the many Service members adversely impacted...
USAFA ’80 Female Grad Responds To ‘Affinity Group’ Incident In Letter To AOG
From Armed Forces Press: The email below was sent to AOG CEO Mark Hille by AFA ’80 graduate Tanya Regan for publication in...
Air Force Doc Appeared To Reassure Medical Staff They Couldn’t Be Sued For Sex Changes On Minors
By Francis Kapper | The Daily Caller News Foundation A top Air Force official seemingly reassured military medical officers...
America at 250: Common Sense 2026
By William B. Scott | Substack “These are the times that try men’s souls: The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will...
They are burrowing in plain sight
From the Commander’s article, “…In 2009, Admiral Roughead as CNO started his road show visiting Sailors in...
About USAFA Admissions
STARRS recently received information from people regarding Admissions at the Air Force Academy. The first were parents...
Top Research University with $2.8B Dept. of War Contracts Skirts Civil Rights Laws, Pushes DEI
By Jonathan Butcher | The Daily Signal Carnegie Mellon University is skirting civil rights laws, making the university ripe...
Active Duty Military and Social Media
By @Cynical Publius, retired Army Colonel An emerging issue amidst the Trump 47 administration is the wisdom of active duty...
“Diversity” Is Our Weakness, to the tune of $94B per year
By John Hinderaker | Powerline Blog The shibboleth that “diversity is our strength” is one of the worst canards of our time...