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Victor Davis Hanson discusses DEI at Military Academies
On the Victor Davis Hanson Show, he and the cohost discuss the article, Diversity, Equity, And Inclusion Reign Supreme At...
Has DEI Become More Important Than Academics At The Air Force Academy?
By Scott Sturman, MD, USAFA ’72 Major General Joe Arbuckle, US Army ret In 2013 the United States Air Force Academy...
Military Service Academies Over the Years
Videos looking back at the US military service academies over the years. What are your memories? The Making Of A West...
USAFA Professors — Then and Now
Looking back at a time when a military academy, whose purpose was to prepare cadets to be future leaders in the military...
Culture Change at USAFA: Why Six Professors Resigned
Following a STARRS Town Hall meeting, a former USAFA Permanent Professor and Department Chair reached out to STARRS with...
DEI, Cornell and USAFA
USAFA’s Chief of the DEI office along with other staff have Diversity and Inclusion Certificates from Cornell...
Captain Rose versus The System
Part of the mission of STARRS is to educate/call-out unlawful/harmful policies/practices in the military, like the illegal...
Culture Reset at the Air Force Academy
The Air Force Academy recently release an article entitled, “Cadets urge survivors to ‘take back the...
The Supreme Court won’t allow racial preferences at service academies, either
By Michael Ormsbee, professor of constitutional law topics and space law at the U.S. Air Force Academy The Supreme Court...
Air Force Academy cadet pleads guilty to using psilocybin and fraudulent appointment
An Air Force Academy cadet pleaded guilty during a hearing Thursday to using psilocybin and providing false information that...
BOOK REVIEW: Strange New World
By Lt Col Eric M. Vogel, USAF ret, USAFA ’73 Strange New World: How Thinkers and Activists Redefined Identity and...
USAFA National Character and Leadership Symposium So Far
So we’re watching the Air Force Academy lead into the annual National Character and Leadership Symposium in February...
Marxist Brainwashing of our Future Military Leaders: The Long March Through the Service Academies
This is the talk Col. Scott gave at the recent webinar, Red Ed: Marxist Brainwashing and Subversion of America: By Col. Ron...
The Consequences of the CRT/DEI Agenda
Our Service Academies teach and promote the Critical Race Theory/Diversity Equity and Inclusion agenda, offer minors in...
Air Force Personnel Center training lacks facts and alienates the people it needs
By LtCol Richard Coe, USAF ret The above is an “interesting” slide from the Air Force Personnel Center. On the surface it...
Mike Rose: DEI is manifesting itself in the military in very dangerous ways
Mike Rose, STARRS Executive Vice President and General Counsel, as well as a 1969 graduate of the US Air Force Academy gave...
Open Letter to Flag Officers: “Houston–We Have a Problem”
In 2020, the Air Force Academy’s football team made a video in support of BLM. The Academy later made incoming cadets...
Affirmative Action Must End at Military-Service Academies
By Paul J. Larkin Capt. Charles “Cully” Stimson, US Navy ret LtGen Thomas Spoehr, US Army ret In a recent Washington Post op...
Why Have Military Academies?
By Tony Lentini, USMA ’71 Established in 1802 under President Thomas Jefferson, West Point is our nation’s oldest armed...
Air Force Says Sexual Assaulter Characteristics Include ‘Adherence to Traditional Gender Norms’
Off we go again into the wild realm of woke insanity. A training slide for the Air Force and Space Force reportedly claimed...
Army: An Alternate Opinion of its Readiness
By LTC Tricia Vinson, US Army ret My topic is the COVID-19 vaccine mandate and potential impacts on the military’s readiness...
Message to Senators: What are Service Academies Hiding?
By Colonel Ron Scott, PhD (USAF ret) STARRS President Dr. Scott recently participated in a livestreamed “telethon” hosted by...
PAPER: Should We Play Politics with the Nation’s Defense?
Read a new research paper entitled, Should We Play Politics with the Nation’s Defense? The Supreme Court’s...
USAFA’s commandant makes culture at Academy top priority
(USAFA Article; photo above is the featured photo on the article) When Brig. Gen. Gavin Marks assumed command in June, he...
The United States Air Force Academy’s White Boy #2
By Dr. Scott Sturman, MD US Air Force Academy ’72 Over the past 15 years the United States Air Force Academy (USAFA) has...
The War for the Military
By Jeffrey H. Anderson Professor at the U.S. Air Force Academy from 2001–2007 The United States Air Force Academy (USAFA)...
The Mistake of Introducing Tenure at the United States Air Force Academy
By Major General Bentley Rayburn, USAF ret STARRS Board of Advisors It was recently discovered that the United States Air...
Uniformed USAFA Cadet Publicly Disrespects Congress at 2023 West Point DEI Conference
By John Hughes, MD, USMA ’96 On 30-31 August 2023, LTG Steven Gilland’s West Point hosted the 20th Annual Diversity, Equity...
DEI vs Meritocracy at the USAFA
We keep seeing the diversity statement that the military should mirror/reflect the racial and gender makeup of the U.S.:...
‘Woke’ sex-ed being foisted on next generation of AF officers
By J.M. Phelps American Family News spoke with Air Force Lt. Gen. (Ret.) Rod Bishop, chairman of Stand Together Against...
USAFA Mandates Radical Leftist Gender Training
By Lt. General Rod Bishop, USAF ret Chairman of the Board Stand Together Against Racism and Radicalism in the Services, Inc...
Leftists Attack Air Force Football for Uniforms Honoring 1942 Doolittle Raiders
Leftists have gone on the attack against the U.S. Air Force Academy football team for honoring the WWII Doolittle Raid on...
STARRS Col. Tracey Meck interview on Frontlines of Freedom
STARRS member of the Chairman’s Group, Colonel Tracey Meck, USAF ret, and 1987 graduate of the US Air Force Academy...
USAFA Graduate Michael Rose Letter to CEO of Association of Graduates
By Michael Rose, USAFA ’69 STARRS General Counsel Read the letter below or in PDF format: Letter to Mike Gould from...
The DEI threat to our military academies
Editorial by the Washington Examiner The U.S. military’s failure to prepare adequately to protect the nation’s security is...
After Supreme Court victory, anti-affirmative action group turns to military academy exemption
The group that took its case against affirmative action in college admissions to the U.S. Supreme Court and won is seeking...
Comparison of an Email Written by Gen Clark in June 2023 vs Congressional Testimony In July 2023
June 2023 Gen Clark Email a Day After UNC/Harvard Supreme Court Decision Lt. Gen. Clark’s 6/30/23 email...
The Death of Affirmative Action
By Dave Kerber, USAFA ’72 In case you were preparing for the July 4th holiday weekend, were stuck in an airport and...
Bring Us Warriors, Not Warfighters, To Match My Mountains
By Dr. Scott Sturman, MD US Air Force Academy ’72 United States Air Force Academy (USAFA) Superintendent Richard...
DEI Policies at Air Force Academy Harming Cadets’ Development: Retired Lieutenant General
By J.M. Phelps, Epoch Times Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) training and policies are harming the development of...
Open Letter to the USAFA Superintendent about DEI
By Kit Bobko USAFA ’91 USAF veteran You must put an end to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) in the United States...
Waltz Presses U.S. Military Service Academy Superintendents on CRT
(Press Release) On Wednesday, U.S. Congressman Mike Waltz (FL-6) questioned Superintendents Lieutenant General Steven W...
Banks Opening Statement at Military Service Academies Hearings
(Press Release) U.S. Representative Jim Banks (R-IN), Chairman of the Military Personnel Subcommittee, delivered the...
A Matter of Life and Death: America’s Military Academies Must Return to Meritocracies
By Wilson Beaver Senior Policy Analyst for defense budgeting The Heritage Foundation’s Center for National Defense Served in...
Admissions, Curriculum, and Diversity of Thought at the Military Service Academies
The House Armed Services Committee held a hearing today to receive testimony on admissions criteria and process, curriculum...
SFFA v. Harvard: Should our nation’s service academies be exempt from this landmark ruling?
By R. Lawrence Purdy, USNA ’68 It is all but impossible to make the case that there are “potentially distinct...
Jim Banks To Grill Military Academy Heads On Race-Based Admissions
By Micaela Burrow, The Daily Caller News Foundation House lawmakers plan to grill leaders of the military service academies...
Supreme Court affirmative action ruling exempts military academies. But for how long?
By Alia Wong, John Fritze | USA TODAY The organization that led the crusade against affirmative action at Harvard and the...
The Military Academies Have Turned Into Woke Wastelands
By Francis Sempa | American Spectator In 1962, General Douglas MacArthur said to the Corps of Cadets at the US Military...