By Scott Sturman, USAFA ’72 Phillip J. Keuhlen, CDR, USN (Ret), USNA ’71 There is a misunderstanding that...
Category - Academies
Air Force Academy moves to monitor social media for potential cadet misconduct
The U.S. Air Force Academy aims to hire a contractor that can closely monitor popular social media platforms for posts and...
West Point should end affirmative action in admissions, group tells US judge
The group behind the successful U.S. Supreme Court challenge to race-conscious college admissions policies urged a federal...
US Judge Won’t Block US Naval Academy’s Race-Conscious Admissions Policy
A federal judge on Thursday rejected a request by the group that successfully challenged race-conscious college admissions...
Black women’s group defends race-based admissions at military academies
An advocacy organization for Black women in the military has voiced support for service academies’ affirmative action...
Senators introduce bill to ban racial discrimination in college admissions
The service academies are put on alert: (Press Release) Senator JD Vance (R-OH) and Congressman Jim Banks (R-IN-03) have...
Diversity, Equity And Inclusion or Shipmate…You Can’t Have Both!
By Capt. Brent Ramsey, USN ret STARRS Board of Advisors According to widely accepted research including that of the military...
Congress: Stop the Cultural Transformation of our Military!
By Scott McQuarrie III, USMA ’72 President, Veterans for Fairness and Merit Here is an American Thinker article by a...
Do the right thing with regards to the Marxist-based DEI: Bury it.
Email from Lt. Gen Rod Bishop to the USAFA Superintendent: Rich–as a die hard Falcon football fan, I certainly share...
USAFA NCLS 2024: “Valuing Human Conditions, Cultures, and Societies” — Except when bombing them
The Air Force Academy recently released a perky promo video for the 2024 National Character and Leadership Symposium which...
Biden administration defends West Point’s race-conscious admissions policy
The Biden administration on Wednesday urged a federal judge to reject a legal challenge to the U.S. Military Academy at West...
New Documentary Tells Story of Space Force Commander Who Spoke Out on CRT, Wokeness in Military
Production began last week on a documentary about former Space Force Lt. Col. Matthew Lohmeier, who faced retaliation for...
Pentagon Issues Policy Allowing Cadets, Midshipmen Who Have Kids to Stay at Service Academies
This just seems really odd. A child needs their mother and father. Can’t people wait until after they graduate and...
Combat Veteran Dr. John Hughes: Coming Home To War
Information Operations podcast host Host L Todd Wood (USAFA grad) speaks with AFP contributor Dr. John Hughes, West Point...
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...
Moses Ezekiel, VMI’s Jackson’s Statue, and Institutional Anti-Semitism?
By Forrest L. Marion, PhD, VMI Class of 1980 Retired U.S. Air Force officer and military historian David Bernstein, the...
VMI’s Struggle Sessions Have Roots in Mao’s Cultural Revolution
By Forrest L. Marion, PhD, VMI Class of 1980 Retired U.S. Air Force officer and military historian Merriam-Webster defines...
STARRS Concerns About Growing Transgenderism Policy in the Department of Defense
The Merchant Marine Academy released a policy last month about transgenderism. The policy makes comprehensive provisions to...
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...
Our Best Americans Speak Truth To Power
Col. Rob Maness, USAF ret, interviewed John Hughes, MD, USMA ’96, about John’s powerful new book, American...
DEI, Cornell and USAFA
USAFA’s Chief of the DEI office along with other staff have Diversity and Inclusion Certificates from Cornell...
Merchant Marine Academy transgender policy: ‘Far-left’s social experiments’
By Caitlin Doornbos | New York Post Congressman Jim Banks wants answers from the Merchant Marine Academy after the Long...
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...
Letter to Congress re Navy’s Transgender Policy
The Secretary of the Navy issued a policy instruction memo entitled Service of Transgender Sailors and Marines dated 23 June...
The VMI Racism Report’s Glaring Omission
By Forrest L. Marion, VMI 1980 Salvatore J. Vitale, Jr., VMI 1961 Carmen D. Villani, Jr., VMI 1976 Henry J. Rogers, VMI 1979...
DEI bureaucracy is alive and thriving in Virginia schools, including VMI
By Carmen Villani, Jr. Virginia Military Institute 1976 Those of us who are old enough to remember can recall the 1988 vice...
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...
The Rise of the Naval Academy Zampolit Cadre
By Commander Salamander This is one of those DivThu that could be a, in a word, tome. As such, I am only going to pull a...
Amid War, Naval Academy Seeks Another Gender and Sexuality Professor
. . . According to the Academy’s website, the school’s mission is to “develop Midshipmen morally, mentally and physically...
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...
Why Does Woke West Point Have A White Football Head Coach?
By John Hughes, MD, USMA ’96 West Point’s official website has a page for its Office of Diversity, Inclusion, and...
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...
USMA IG Report Finds No Evidence of Institutional Racism at West Point
A FOIA request from 2021 for West Point has provided “The Report of Special Inspection Assessment of Race or Ethnicity...
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...
Who Cares About West Point’s Football Team & Rhodes Scholars– When Will USMA Grads Win Wars?
By John Hughes, MD, USMA ’96 (Whistle) – BOOM! – Ahhh U.S.M.A. Rah! Rah! U.S.M.A. Rah! Rah! Hoo-Rah! Hoo...
Teaching Cultural Marxism at West Point
By James Atticus Bowden, USMA ’72 Cultural Marxism Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI), Critical Race Theory (CRT)...
Why Have Military Academies?
By Tony Lentini, USMA ’71 Established in 1802 under President Thomas Jefferson, West Point is our nation’s oldest armed...
US Naval Academy Is Sued Over Use of Race in Admissions
By Hans von Spakovsky Heritage Foundation A couple of weeks ago, Students for Fair Admissions sued the U.S. Military Academy...
Book Review: American Doctor Coming Home to War
By Capt. Brent Ramsey, USN ret American Doctor Coming Home to War, by John Hughes, MD (available in paperback and Kindle)...
MacArthur Society of West Point Graduates incorporates as 501c3 charity
The MacArthur Society of West Point Graduates today announced its incorporation in Colorado as a 501(c)(3) charity, the...