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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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Waltz Presses U.S. Military Service Academy Superintendents on CRT
(Press Release) On Wednesday, U.S. Congressman Mike Waltz (FL-6) questioned Superintendents Lieutenant General Steven W...
Banks Opening Statement at Military Service Academies Hearings
(Press Release) U.S. Representative Jim Banks (R-IN), Chairman of the Military Personnel Subcommittee, delivered the...
A Matter of Life and Death: America’s Military Academies Must Return to Meritocracies
By Wilson Beaver Senior Policy Analyst for defense budgeting The Heritage Foundation’s Center for National Defense Served in...
Admissions, Curriculum, and Diversity of Thought at the Military Service Academies
The House Armed Services Committee held a hearing today to receive testimony on admissions criteria and process, curriculum...
SFFA v. Harvard: Should our nation’s service academies be exempt from this landmark ruling?
By R. Lawrence Purdy, USNA ’68 It is all but impossible to make the case that there are “potentially distinct...
Jim Banks To Grill Military Academy Heads On Race-Based Admissions
By Micaela Burrow, The Daily Caller News Foundation House lawmakers plan to grill leaders of the military service academies...