(Press Release) Rep. Jen Kiggans (VA-02) joined Reps. Ben Cline (VA-06), Rob Wittman (VA-01), Morgan Griffith (VA-09), and...
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Virginia Republicans Send Letter to President Trump and Secretary of War Hegseth Regarding State Interference in VMI Governance
Virginia Democrats Move to Require Teaching Jan. 6th as an “Insurrection”
By Jonathan Turley Virginia Democrats are moving to require teachers to tell students that Jan. 6th was an “insurrection”...
VMI Under Siege: The Fight for Military Excellence is Only Just Beginning
By Bronson Winslow, VMI ’21| Restoration News After regaining full control of Virginia’s government in November...
When State Politics Threatens VMI and National Defense
By the Editorial Staff | VMI Cadet Newspaper Lawmakers have styled Virginia’s House Bill 1377 a “study.”...
The VMI Experience — Impending Disaster or Restoration
By Carmen D. Villani Jr., VMI ’76 In recent weeks, the Virginia Military Institute (VMI) has come under attack by...
Virginia Democrats Attack VMI
STARRS is mentioned in a Wall Street Journal editorial: By The Editorial Board | Wall Street Journal The progressive...
What VMI Contributes to the U.S. Officer Corps
By Jonathan K. Corrad, VMI 2005 As Virginia lawmakers debate proposed changes affecting the Virginia Military...
Bills to reshape VMI board and create review task force spark alumni, lawmaker backlash
By Jaida Simone | ABC WSET-13 News A growing debate over proposed legislation affecting the Virginia Military Institute is...
STARRS Urges Presidential, Secretary of War, and Congressional Review of Virginia Legislation Impacting the Virginia Military Institute
Richmond, Virginia – Stand Together Against Racism and Radicalism in the Services (STARRS) has formally called upon...
STARRS Open Letter to POTUS re the Virginia Military Institute
STARRS leaders wrote a letter to President Trump regarding the Virginia Military Institute. Read the letter with...
The Battle for VMI
By Joseph Murray, VMI 2021 Last month, Democrat Abigail Spanberger was sworn in as the 75th governor of the Commonwealth of...
House Passes Bill to Study VMI’s Academics, Military Training, and Diversity Efforts
By Abbie Coleman | News 10 House Bill 1377, sponsored by Delegate Dan Helmer (D–10), cleared the House with a 71–24 vote...
Only Hegseth can save storied Virginia Military Institute from woke state lawmakers
By David Marcus | Fox News Opinion The last time that Virginia Military Institute was nearly destroyed was when Union troops...
The Left’s Attack On VMI For Lack Of Wokeness Must End
By Col. Bill Connor, Esq., USA ret, The Citadel ’90 Chairman, STARRS Board of Advisors As happened with Joe Biden in 2020...
The Left will go after the institution that will resist them the least, for the most impact: The Military
By Commander Salamander | CDR Salamander Substack Everyone and every institution has a role to play at a particular time and...
VMI cadets fight back as Virginia Democrats threaten to close historic military college
By Preston Mizell | Fox News Cadets at the Virginia Military Institute went to bat for the historic military college after...
DOW threatens ‘extraordinary’ action if Dems put Virginia Military Institute fully under VA control
By Natalia Mittelstadt | Just the News The War Department threatened to take “extraordinary measures” if...
Virginia Democrats blasted for threatening historic military college VMI with funding threat over DEI concerns
By Preston Mizell | Fox News Virginia Democrats in the state’s House of Delegates introduced a resolution on Tuesday that...
VMI targeted by Virginia’s new radical leftist government
Another example of how elections have consequences. Now that the radical leftists are in power in Virginia, one of their...
Leadership by Example Has Broken Down at VMI—and the Corps Shows It
By George Mayforth, VMI ’82 My recent visit to the Institute during Parents Weekend—an occasion traditionally marked...
VMI’s “Struggle Session”
By Forrest L. Marion, Ph.D., VMI grad Retired U.S. Air Force officer and military historian Nearly five years ago I entitled...
VMI’s Missed Response to a National Tragedy Regarding Charlie Kirk
The Cadet Editorial Staff | The VMI Cadet Newspaper On September 10, 2025, Charlie Kirk was assassinated during a campus...
After renaming DEI office, VMI board shifts oversight of ‘inclusive excellence’
By Nathaniel Cline | Virginia Mercury As the Virginia Military Institute’s Board of Visitors awaits the state Supreme...
VMI at War: Defiant Leadership vs. National Authority
The piece below summarizes four important, informative, and highly researched “must-read” articles written by Virginia...
VMI Alumnus Nominated to Serve as Army Undersecretary
(VMI) Congratulations to VMI alumnus and retired Army colonel Michael Obadal ’96 who has been nominated to serve as Army...
VMI won’t extend superintendent’s contract, following increase in DEI efforts
Here is AP’s actual headline which focuses on his race thus continuing the divisive CRT/DEI agenda pitting people...
Commander-in-Chief Names USAF Lt Gen. Dan Caine, VMI ’90 Grad, as Next Chairman Joint Chief of Staff
On his Truth Social account, President Trump named US Air Force Lt. General Dan “Razin” Caine to be the next...
Three Groups Call for an Investigation into Political Intimidation and Free Speech at VMI
(Press Release) The Cadet Foundation (www.thecadetfoundation.org) joined by Alumni Free Speech Alliance partners the...
DEI-charged claims fly over contract talks for VMI’s leader as lawmaker demands ethics probe
By Charles Creitz | Fox News Virginia Democratic lawmakers are raising racially tinged concerns that the Virginia Military...
Identity/Affinity Clubs at Military Academies Divide People
By Scott McQuarrie, USMA ’72, Attorney If you are not aware of this recent social media post by the USMA Deputy...
Political Infighting Over VMI’s Board of Visitors Puts Cadets at Risk
By The VMI Cadet Editorial Staff The Virginia Military Institute (VMI) has long stood as a symbol of discipline, leadership...
Remove DEI From VMI
By Carmen D. Villani, Jr. ’76 Members of the Virginia Military Institute Board of Visitors, A little over 4 years ago...
VMI’s Integrity at Stake
By Sal Vitale, VMI ’61 For several years, I, along with other concerned alumni, diligently worked to restore the...
DEI’s Impact on our Military with West Point Grad Meaghan Mobbs
By Patrice Onwuka | Philanthropy Roundtable America’s military has been known as the greatest in the world, but over the...
Trump selects Mike Waltz as National Security Adviser
By Phil Stewart, Steve Holland and Idrees Ali | Reuters President-elect Donald Trump has picked Republican Representative...
Questions Raised About VMI Professor Supporting Radical Causes
This billboard truck showed up at the Virginia Military Institute today, parked in front of the alumni hall and in full view...
What I have seen at VMI the last 3 plus years is appalling to me
Response by a VMI grad to this article, VMI alumni file lawsuit against institute’s official alumni association: Good...
VMI alumni file lawsuit against institute’s official alumni association
By Giovanna Johnson | The College Fix A frustrated group of Virginia Military Institute alumni, some of whom have...
VMI administration countermanded direct orders from the Governor for one of VMI’s oldest and most honored traditions
Glenn Youngkin won election as Virginia Governor on a platform to end DEI/CRT and divisive policies in Virginia Schools that...
VMI’s Elephant in the Room
Many of the experiences of cadets at USAFA (as seen in this recent post “USAFA Cadet: “I came here to be mentally and...
VMI Board of Visitors struggles with politics and free speech
The importance of attending Board of Visitors meetings: By Cody Bartmann and The Cadet staff | The VMI Cadet The Cadet...
Spirit of VMI Chairman’s Update
By Matt Daniel, VMI ‘85 | The Spirit of VMI The Spirit of VMI was founded in the winter of 2021; it has been 3 years of...
VMI Eschews Standards of Excellence, Devalues Diploma
By Joseph D. Elie, VMI ’88 | The Spirit of VMI As an alumnus living in Florida, I have a dearth of information about...
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...
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...
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...
Proactive alumni credited with prompting VMI diversity chief to quit
A proactive alumni group working to curb diversity, equity and inclusion at the Virginia Military Institute has been given...