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Civilian Service Academy Profs Complain about “Academic Freedoms” in Military Academies
Professors used to having academic freedoms from their colleges and universities—nearly all of which have a left-wing bias...
An Analysis of West Point’s Diversity and Inclusion Plan 2020-2025
By David R. Jackson, USMA ’73 Many West Point graduates don’t realize how strongly the school’s leaders were promoting...
Congressman Protects Women’s Sports at U.S. Military Service Academies
(Press Release) U.S. Representative Dusty Johnson (R-S.D.) introduced the Protection of Women in Sports at Military...
Until President Trump Fires Woke Leadership, West Point Will Never Get Back to Forging Warriors
By Doug Truax, USMA ’92 | Restoration News U.S. Military Academy leadership bears final responsibility for turning...
West Point Board of Visitors Meeting – 11 July 2025
The West Point Board of Visitors is holding a public meeting on Friday, 11 July 2025 from 8 am to 11 am at Camp Buckner...
Senator Introduces Legislation to Protect Women’s Sports at Military Service Academies
(Press Release) U.S. Senator Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) introduced legislation to prohibit men from participating in women’s...
Hegseth Was Right to Ban Race in Admissions At Military Service Academies, but Not for the Reasons You Might Think
Not too sure about his point about recommendations from the 2011 Military Leadership Diversity Commission not being...
This bill will help make military officers worthy of our republic
By Tim Feist, USMC vet, taught at USNA Earlier this month, Sen. Jim Banks introduced legislation to require the U.S service...
New bill in House would codify Trump’s order banning woke curriculum from U.S service academies
By Kerry Picket | The Washington Times A House GOP lawmaker introduced legislation Thursday that would codify President...
Refuting West Point Professors Screed Against CRT/DEI Removal
Jeanne Ives, USMA ’87 interviewed James Atticus Bowden, USMA ’72 regarding West Point professor Graham...
Documents Detail West Point Cover-Up of Removal of ‘Duty, Honor, Country’ from Mission Statement
(Judicial Watch) Judicial Watch announced today it receive 445 pages of records from the U.S. Military Academy at West...
DEI in military academies is ‘corrosive’ to national defense
By Christina Schuler | Florida Today Will Thibeau, director at the Claremont Institute’s Center for the American Way of...
Another Clueless (former) West Point Prof
They Live. The Marxist-rooted CRT/DEI/Woke ideology inculcated into people doesn’t just go away. Here’s a former...
Supe to SecArmy Wormuth: “….our continued transformation efforts” at West Point
STARRS In October 2008, Barack Obama made an infamous statement, “We are five days away from fundamentally...
West Point Gets Back To Business: It’s Training for Army Officers, NOT a Liberal Arts College
By CDR Breck Henderson, US Navy veteran Dr. Graham Parsons, a professor of philosophy at West Point, recently published an...
West Point Trades Real Reform For Illusory Paper Compliance
If the academy cannot produce officers loyal to the Constitution, its leadership is not just failing, it is compromising...
West Point’s leftist-if-not-Marxist plebe American History textbook
Lou Coatney, a retired government and academic librarian who attended West Point in 1964 and 1965, wrote the below article...
What happens when you tell a philosopher ‘No’
By Owen Anderson We need more philosophers to resign from their university posts. Graham Parsons, a philosophy professor at...
He’s the right man, in the right place, right time and just in the nick of time
By Buck Torske, retired Navy Chief Petty Officer It’s obvious “mainstream” press and media can’t stop beating up all things...
Buh-Bye West Point
By pyrene* Full Professor Graham Parsons got a long screed on the sanctimony of his virtue-signaling resignation from the...
Update on DEI Situation at West Point and the Military
MacArthur Society President Col. Bill Prince, USA ret and a 1970 graduate of the US Military Academy gives an...
Senator Introduces Legislation to Expand Classical Learning Test to Service Academies
(Press Release) Senator Jim Banks (R-Ind.) introduced the Promote Classical Learning Act. The bill requires U.S. military...
There Are No Race Theorists in Foxholes
By Doug Philippone, West Point graduate, former Army Major When the U.S. invaded Iraq in 2003, I was commanding a Third...
West Point Profs and Staff: “Should they resist Mr. Hegseth’s order or resign in protest?”
Some insight into what is going on with professors at West Point can be found in this Washington Post article, The...
Leftist West Point Professor Leaves in a Huff Over the End of Brainwashing
By Streiff | Red State A civilian West Point professor made a public spectacle of his exit from the US Military Academy and...
Certification of Merit-Based Military Service Academy Admissions
Statement by Chief Pentagon Spokesman and Senior Advisor, Sean Parnell, on Certification of Merit-Based Military Service...
Pete Hegseth says West Point professor who resigned over Trump admin education overhaul ‘will not be missed’
By Christina Shaw | Fox News A West Point professor’s resignation over education shifts brought, in part, by the Trump...
Gen Z Goes to West Point: How The Academy Should Adapt to Overcome Safetyism and Victimhood Culture
By Lt. Col. Ken Segelhorst, USA ret This paper was completed and submitted in partial fulfillment of the Master Teacher...
Transgender West Point Instructor Sues the Commander-in-Chief
This Times-Union article tells the story of a female who joined the Army and was diagnosed with gender dysphoria in 2021...
Cheating Without Consequences: The Rise and Tolerance of Mass Cheating at America’s Military Academies
By Lt Col. Ken Segelhorst, USA ret In March 2025, the U.S. Air Force Academy announced that nearly 100 cadets were under...
Military schools offer test case for Trump education reforms
By Lexi Lonas Cochran | The Hill Military academies could increasingly show what President Trump wants to see from public...
USAFA and USMA end race consideration in admissions
By Nate Raymond | Reuters The U.S. Military Academy and the U.S. Air Force Academy will no longer consider race as a factor...
Newt’s World: Rep. Wesley Hunt on Service to Country
Newt Gingrich talks with Congressman Wesley Hunt, USMA ’04, U.S. Army veteran and Apache helicopter pilot, about his...
Tuberville’s proposal for academy athletes to go pro undermines duty
By Lt. Col. Ken Segelhorst, USA ret. Sen. Tommy Tuberville recently said he would pursue new rules in this year’s National...
How DEI Left Service Academies In A ‘State Of Decay,’ And How Trump Can Fix It
By Shawn Fleetwood | The Federalist Since returning to office, President Trump has taken significant action to...
Reviving Warfighter Culture by Removing Divisive DEI – With Brig. General Chris Petty, USA ret
In this episode of STARRS & Stripes, host CDR Al Palmer, USN ret, interviews STARRS Board of Directors member retired...
After Action Report on Academy Superintendents Hearing
Prepared by members of the MacArthur Society of West Point Graduates Here is a summary of the issues raised by Senators and...
Service Academy Hearing a Missed Opportunity
By Richard Kline, USMA 1967 Served in the US Air Force Senior Executive Service, retired On March 26th, the Senate Armed...
A Capitol Hill Dud
By Colleen Roberts STARRS co-CT State Leader Anyone anticipating verbal ‘fireworks’ during the March 26, 2025 SASC “Status...
Senators question Air Force Academy superintendent, others about civilian faculty
By Mary Shinn | Colorado Springs Gazette After the Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth called for more service members to...
Senator: “The Academies must always remember why they were created in the first place.”
(Press Release) Yesterday, as Chairman of the Senate Armed Services Subcommittee on Personnel,U.S. Senator Tommy Tuberville...
End Athletic Admissions to Military Academies
By David Kane | Minding the Campus Secretary Peter Hegseth’s first order to the Department of Defense promised “a focus on...
Senate Hearing on Status of Military Service Academies – March 26, 2025
The Senate Armed Services Committee held a hearing, “To conduct oversight and receive testimony on the status of the...
President Trump Appoints New Members to Three Service Academy Board of Visitors
After removing members of USAFA, USMA and USNA Board of Visitors appointed by Biden, President Trump named their...
West Point Must Come Clean
By Tony Lentini, USMA ’71 On Spring Break in 2022, five West Point cadets overdosed on cocaine laced with fentanyl...
SECDEF Hegseth: “The warfighters are back in charge.”
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth was recently interview by Laura Ingraham during their visit to GITMO and as part of that...
Ever wonder why there are no statues of a post-WW2 West Point General?
By John Hughes, MD, USMA ’96 Several factors go into demand for immortalization of a West Point graduate in the form...
Lethality in Education: Athenian Scholarship, Roman Virtus, Maccabean Grit, & Muscular Christianity
By Lt. Col. Chuck Duray, PhD, USA ret, USMA ’92 STARRS Volunteer For many years, the U.S. military possessed...