By Col. Rob Maness, USA ret STARRS Board of Advisors As a retired U.S. Air Force Colonel with 32 years of service—from...
Category - Issues
Commanders Must Face Accountability for the Unlawful Vaccine Mandate
Ron Johnson Urges Hegseth To Address Military COVID Mandate Victims Following DCNF Report
By William Wallace | The Daily Caller News Foundation Republican Wisconsin Sen. Ron Johnson urged Defense Secretary Pete...
Navy secretary pushes review board to purge DEI from Naval Academy and restore ‘warrior ethos’
By Morgan Phillips | Fox News The Navy may soon install a new educational review board aimed at restoring a “culture...
Congress Should Fully Codify Sound Military Personnel Policies
By Elaine Donnelly President, Center for Military Readiness Congress has finished work on the high-stakes Big Beautiful Bill...
West Point Leadership Thumbs its Nose at the Trump Administration & Loses
By Victoria Manning | Restoration News A recent scuffle with West Point’s woke leadership reveals how hard the Left is...
Army Secretary Orders Removal Of Biden Censorship Czar From West Point
By Shawn Fleetwood | The Federalist On Wednesday, Army Secretary Dan Driscoll ordered West Point to terminate the...
Two USAF Generals School Biased Reporter on Marxism in the Military
STARRS In its typical left-wing bias manner, a Military.com article by Rebecca Kheel about Matt Lohmeier entitled...
Further Data Shows Media Wildly Overestimated Number Of Trans Troops
By Jacqueline Annis-Levings | The Federalist In the weeks surrounding Trump’s inauguration, the left-wing media insisted the...
Exposing the Chain of Command | Sam Shoemate
The Feds podcast interviews Sam Shoemate, retired U.S. Army Chief Warrant Officer and Intelligence Officer, renowned for...
Battle over Transgender Troops Reignites on Capitol Hill
By John M. Donnelly | CQ Roll Call Multiple defense bills on Congress’ post-recess agenda would cement in law the...
Infamous Navy Drag Queen/Recruitment Influencer Reenlists
As if he hasn’t caused enough problems for everyone. Navy Yeoman 2nd Class Joshua Kelley, aka drag queen Harpy...
Update on DOD’s COVID-19 Reinstatement Process
Former Marine Lt Colonel Stu Scheller, who is now working in the office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Personnel and...
Four Years Later, Veterans Still Fighting To Get Justice For COVID Vaccine Crackdowns
By Wallace White | The Daily Caller News Foundation Four years after former President Joe Biden’s Pentagon mandated the...
Decision to remove West Point crest from chapel Bibles reversed by Secretary of the Army
By Diana Stancy | Fox News The Secretary of the Army has ordered the U.S. Military Academy at West Point to restore the...
STARRS “American Creed” presentation in Colorado: July 23
STARRS gave their presentation, “The American Creed Threatened By Radical Ideology”, at the Church For All...
Judicial Watch Sues for Records on Removal of West Point Crest from Bibles in Academy Chapel
(Judicial Watch) Judicial Watch announced it filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit against the U.S. Department...
West Point emails reveal how the prestigious military academy messed up Pete Hegseth’s admissions status
By Jack Newsham | Business Insider Recently released West Point records shed new light on exactly how the December snafu...
Brig. General Walker on PBS News Hour: DEI in the Military
In light of the left-leaning PBS being defunded, STARRS calls attention to this post originally from January 2025 where...
DEI Deprogramming
By Stanley Ridgley, PhD Professor, former Army military intelligence officer and author of DEI Exposed: How the Biggest Con...
Democratic Socialism – The Philosophy of Poverty
By Alexander G. Markovsky Socialism is like an infectious disease—one that societies must endure in order to build immunity...
Exposing DEI: Understanding the Strategy Behind Institutional Indoctrination
A lot of important, eye-opening information in STARRS July Town Hall with guest speaker Dr. Stanley Ridgley, a former Army...
Senior Military Leaders Need to Show the Courage to Take on the ‘Tough’ Questions, Says Retired Army Public Affairs Officer
By J.M. Phelps | Gateway Pundit A recent podcast by Shawn Ryan caught the attention of service members and veterans...
As an Esteemed Navy Commander is Subjected to Investigation, ‘You Come for All of Us’ Becomes the Rallying Cry for Former Service Members
By J.M. Phelps | Gateway Pundit On July 9, active-duty Navy Commander Robert A. Green, Jr., announced on X that he has...
U.S. Navy commander now investigated for exposing ‘unconstitutional and illegal actions by military leadership’ during COVID-shot mandates
By J.M. Phelps | WorldNet Daily One of the U.S. military’s most high-profile and respected whistleblowers, active...
Persecution in the Air Force
Chase Spears hosts Brennan ‘Skip’ Schilperoort, an Air Force major who faced persecution for resisting unlawful...
The Diversity Game Is a Gigantic Con
By George Leef | James G. Martin Center for Academic Renewal In his famous story “The Emperor’s New Clothes,” Hans...
Why hasn’t DEI in DOD been eliminated yet?
By John Hughes, USMA ’96 On 27 January 2025, President Trump made good on his campaign promise and officially ended...
Army secretary vows ‘grievous error’ targeting pro-life groups will never happen again
By Morgan Phillips | Fox News Army Secretary Dan Driscoll called a set of training slides that deemed pro-life groups as...
House Passes FY26 Defense Bill, Investing in America’s Military Superiority
Key items for our lane in this House Appropriations press release: Codifying President Trump’s executive actions to end...
Operation Midnight Hammer: Proof of the Trump Administration’s De-wokeification of our Military
By Nicole Kiprilov | Independent Women’s Forum After four years of the deliberate and relentless politicization and...
Naval Academy Settles on Shorter List of Banned Books as Pentagon Panel Weighs Ultimate Decision
By Konstantin Toropin | Military.com As the legal court battle over the Trump administration’s efforts to ban...
Republicans join House Dems to bar Hegseth’s military base name changes
By Cybele Mayes-Osterman and Davis Winkie | USA TODAY A House committee attempted to ban Defense Secretary Pete...
The Vax War Against Military Service Members
By Col Rob Maness, USAF ret STARRS Board of Advisors Secretary Hegseth’s words echo across the force “The Chiefs of all the...
Congress Broke The Military, Now It Must Fix It
By Col. William A. Woodruff, US Army lawyer, retired Congress created the “woke” military. Now it has the responsibility to...
Military libraries ignore Trump’s LGBT executive order
By Bethany Mandel | Washington Examiner President Donald Trump’s January 2025 Executive Order 14190, Ending Radical...
Here Are the 596 Books Being Banned by Defense Department Schools
(Military.com) Children’s biographies of trailblazing transgender public figures. An award-winning novel reflecting on...
Pentagon Withdraws Promotion for Admiral Who Allowed Drag Shows on USS Ronald Reagan
By Joshua Arnold | The Washington Stand The U.S. Department of Defense has withdrawn its nomination to promote Rear...
Sen. Banks Blocks Promotion of Woke Air Force Colonel Advocating Race, Gender-Based Promotion
By Bradley Jaye | Breitbart News Sen. Jim Banks (R-IN) has placed a hold on the promotion of an Air Force colonel...
Do the President & SecDef Orders On Unlawful COVID Actions Matter?
By Col. Rob Maness, USAF ret STARRS Board of Advisors I’m getting the distinct impression they don’t. As our friend J.M...
Pentagon pulls all military speakers from ‘globalist’ Aspen Security Forum
By Jerry Dunleavy | Just the News The Pentagon has pulled roughly a dozen high-ranking U.S. military officials who had been...
Letter to the Editor: Content of Their Character
Lt. Col. Michael Uecker, USAF ret, USAFA ’71 and also a STARRS Ambassador, wrote this letter to the editor of the...
DEI Still Infects West Point
By Will Thibeau and Jeshua Grose DEI employees are still running amok in the hallowed halls of the United States Military...
Pentagon Ditches Admiral Who Allowed Drag Queen Performances On Aircraft Carrier
By Mary Margaret Olohan | The Daily Wire The Defense Department is withdrawing the nomination of Rear Adm. Michael “Buzz”...
Leftist Accrediting Organizations Influence U.S. Military Academies
By Victoria Manning | Restoration News Agencies responsible for approving accreditation of America’s five military service...
Conscientious Objector USAFA ’23 Grad has to pay back $150K
Update on that 2023 USAFA cadet who became a conscientious objector after Israel’s bombing of Gaza. We covered her...
OH NO! The Air Force Bans False Eyelashes
Whatever will female warfighters do? New USAF regulations drop: Air Force updates, clarifies DAFI 36-2903 guidance The Air...
Trump’s Criticism of ‘Idiot’ Woke General Is a Reminder of How Far We’ve Come
By Robert Spencer | PJ Media We aren’t even six months into President Donald Trump’s second term, and so much has changed...
Army will look for false accusations, consider ‘credibility’ in misconduct cases
Comment on article from STARRS Vice Chairman Maj General Joe Arbuckle, USA ret: “This is fantastic! DEI made it easy...
The Communism Within
Col Rob Maness, USAF ret, STARRS Board of Advisors, interviewed Soviet-born Alexander Markovsky on The Rob Maness Show: More...