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US Military Archbishop Leads Pro-Life Cadets in March for Life
Archbishop Timothy Broglio for the Military Services led a group of pro-life cadets and midshipmen in the March for Life...
Naval professor’s new book flags leftist ideology infiltrating military
A U.S. Naval Academy professor who has been disciplined by the institution for speaking out against the school’s practices...
The Gift of Faith
By Andrew P. O’Meara, Jr., West Point ’59 I confess to being a slow learner. It took me several years of fighting Communism...
DEI Destroys Excellence, Military Cohesion at the Naval Academy
By Bruce Fleming, USNA Instructor since 1987 This is an excerpt from Bruce Fleming’s new book, Saving Our Service...
Are the Military Services Prepared for Race-Neutral Admissions? Part II
By Major Geoffrey Irving, U.S. Marine Corps Reserve . . . . First, the Supreme Court required that any use of racial...
Can Miss America Restore America’s Faith in Merit?
By Jane Guenther Parent | Chronicles Magazine Sunday night, while America was watching football, news about this week’s Iowa...
US Military Academies Focus on Oaths and Loyalty to Constitution as Political Divisions Intensify
For 75 minutes, Maj. Joe Amoroso quizzed his students in SS202, American Politics, about civilian leadership of the...
Navy Completes Work on Naming Commission Recommendations
(US Navy Press Release) “When Secretary Austin directed us to implement the recommendations of the Naming Commission, he...
West Point grads CRT ‘screed’ against USMA influenced by former WP History teacher
Yesterday’s Capitol Hill hearing on progressive ideologies in the military originally had two witnesses, Matt Lohmeier...
Congressman Waltz presses former West Point History instructor to define Equity
(Press Release) On Thursday, U.S. Congressman Mike Waltz (FL-6) questioned Brigadier General Ty Seidule (Ret.), former head...
The Dangers of DEI Indoctrination Happening at the US Service Academies
By Col. Rob Maness, USAF ret STARRS Board of Advisors Considering Harvard President Claudine Gay’s resignation, and her...
Veteran Air Force commander joins race for Congress, says moment ‘too important’ for career politicians
A veteran Air Force navigator and top-level commander announced Tuesday he was launching a campaign for Congress because the...
NEW BOOK: Saving Our Service Academies
Saving Our Service Academies: My Battle with, and for, the US Naval Academy to Make Thinking Officers, By Bruce Fleming From...
American history classes were removed as core requirements in 1986 at USAFA
. . . . Brig. Gen. Wells, a 1975 academy graduate who led the history department from 2000 to 2016, points out that early in...
The Navy and Politics: Questions That Deserve Answers
By Capt. Brent Ramsey, US Navy ret STARRS Board of Advisors Recently there has been an increase in naval threats around the...
US Military Academy at West Point can continue to consider race in admissions, judge rules
West Point can continue to be racists. The U.S. Military Academy at West Point can continue to consider race for now when...
Air Force Academy Privately Fretted The End Of Race-Based Admissions Would Hamstring ‘Diversity’ Goals
By Micaela Burrow, The Daily Caller News Foundation The Air Force Academy’s top official worried the Supreme Court’s...
Here’s What They’re Teaching In The Naval Academy’s Gender And Sexuality Class
How utterly painful for midshipmen to have to suffer through a course like this instead of focusing on becoming a war...
No Institution is Safe: DEI Thought Control in the Military
By Scott Sturman, USAFA ’72 Phillip J. Keuhlen, CDR, USN (Ret), USNA ’71 There is a misunderstanding that...
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...