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Category - Academies
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...
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...
Students For Fair Admissions Sues Naval Academy Over Race-Based Admissions
By Micaela Burrow, The Daily Caller News Foundation A legal group fighting against affirmative action sued the U.S. Naval...
West Point Data Chief Publicly Admits There is No Objective Evidence for Military DEI
By John Hughes, MD, USMA ’96 LTG Steven Gilland’s West Point hosted the 20th annual Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI)...
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...
The Navy and Diversity
By Capt. Brent Ramsey, US Navy In recent years, the Navy has put a lot of emphasis on “Diversity”. If you visit the Navy’s...
West Point’s New ‘Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion’ Minor Teaches America is Unfair
The motto of the United States Military Academy at West Point is “Duty, Honor, Country.” Or at least that was the motto...
At West Point, the Honor Code will become “aspirational”
West Point graduates have alerted STARRS to a questionable statement from the USMA Superintendent when he was speaking to a...
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...
Army Lawyer COL Winston Williams Signals Service Academy Cadets Can Violate UCMJ…If They Are Woke
By John Hughes, MD, USMA ’96 LTG Steven Gilland hosted the 20th Annual Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Conference last...
A Student Wants to Join West Point. But He’s the Wrong Race
B is a high school student with a 4.2 GPA. One of his grandfathers fought in the Army on D-Day. Three of his family members...
Stick a fork in West Point, they’re done… wait until you see the new degree they’re offering…
Well, West Point had a good run, didn’t it? Once a beacon of prestige and elite training, this institution produced some of...
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...
At West Point, Racism Becomes More Important Than Military Readiness
By Hans von Spakovsky, senior legal fellow at The Heritage Foundation Students for Fair Admissions, the same group that...
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)...
West Point Sued After Director of Admissions Brags About What Happens to White Applicants
When Ibram X. Kendi’s preposterous thesis that “the only remedy to past discrimination is present discrimination” becomes...
‘Not Grounded In Fact’: Military Academy Set To Be The New Battleground Over Race-Based Admissions
By Kate Anderson, The Daily Caller News Foundation The West Point military academy is set to be the center of a lawsuit...
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...
Lawmakers grill military academies on if they ‘condone’ DEI speakers’ controversial statements
Two veteran congressmen are demanding answers from the heads of West Point and the U.S. Air Force Academy (USAFA) regarding...
When a Diversity Conference Could Benefit from an Increase in Diversity
Col. (Ret.) William F. Prince, U.S. Army Special Forces USMA 1970, MacArthur Society Board Member From 30-31 August 2023...
US anti-affirmative action group challenges West Point admissions policy
The group that successfully challenged race-conscious collegiate student admissions policies at the U.S. Supreme Court sued...
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...
No one wants to accept blame for the Afghanistan war
By John Hughes, MD, USMA ’96 Veteran of Haiti, Iraq, Afghanistan President of MacArthur Society of West Point Graduates The...
Why the MacArthur Society?
By LTG Thomas McInerney, USAF ret, USMA Class of ’59 MG Paul E Vallely, USA ret, USMA Class of ’61 Col. Andrew P...
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.:...
Naval Academy Boosting Midshipmen Training….in Gender and Sexuality Studies
By Capt. James Nault, US Navy ret, USNA ’81 My alma mater is offering classes in “Gender and Sexuality Studies” and...
Not Anymore: Why I no longer recommend military service
By Tony Lentini, USMA ’71 Just back from Normandy, where 9,387 Americans who lost their lives in the D-Day invasion...
Here’s What Naval Academy Students Are Learning In Their Gender And Sexuality Class
WHY IN THE WORLD does a war-fighting military academy need a specialist in “Gender and Sexuality Studies”...
‘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...
Deputy Secretary of Defense Kathleen H. Hicks’ Roundtable Meeting With West Point Cadets on Climate & Resilience
(DOD Press Release) Deputy Secretary of Defense Kathleen Hicks met via Zoom today with cadets and a newly-commissioned...
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...
Why is there a lack of ownership and responsibility among Navy Academy cadets?
Indicative of low morale? If so, why do tomorrow’s leaders have low morale? By Midshipman Second Class Jacob Schepmann...
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...
A tale of two VMIs
By Carmen Villani, Jr. Virginia Military Institute 1976 Letter to the Editor of Cardinal News: Ms. Rowan’s coverage of the...
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...
Does LTG Gilland (West Point Supe) Hate WW2 Veterans?
By John Hughes, MD, USMA ’96 Veteran of Haiti, Iraq, Afghanistan President of MacArthur Society of West Point...
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...