By J.M. Phelps | Gateway Pundit As the U.S. military moves away from divisiveness in pursuit of unity and the tyranny of...
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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...
Task Force Validates Successful DEI Elimination Throughout DOD
By Matthew Olay | DOD News A Defense Department task force has confirmed DOD’s successful implementation of a...
Should Trump trust his generals who almost all endorsed Marxist-derived DEI?
By John Hughes, USMA ’96 “WASHINGTON, March 25 (Reuters) – China remains the top military and cyber threat to...
At Annapolis, not so much who is admitted, but who is hired
By CDR Salamander | Substack This took place in the Biden Administration. With the discussions about what is going on with...
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...
Restoring Veterans Harmed by the Unlawful Anthrax Vax Order
By Col. Rob Maness, USAF ret STARRS Board of Advisors From his podcast: The anthrax vaccine was integrated into my Air Force...
Most books pulled from Naval Academy library are back on the shelves in latest DEI turn
By Lolita Baldor | Associated Press All but a few of the nearly 400 books that the U.S. Naval Academy removed from its...
House Democrats look to bolster trans military protections
Members of Congress still pushing the woke ideology agenda on the military: By Brooke Migdon | The Hill House Democrats...
Congressman: Keep Our Military Focused On Readiness, Not Social Experiments
By Rep. Barry Moore As a proud American, a staunch conservative, and a supporter of our men and women in uniform, I believe...
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...
BOOK REVIEW: Liberal Bolshevism — An American Tragedy
By Lt Col. Eric Vogel, USAF ret, USAFA ’73 This is a book review of Alexander G. Markovsky’s Liberal Bolshevism:...
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...
Low-Trust Military
By Major Chase Spears, USA PAO ret Sir Winston Churchill is known to have remarked that “In wartime, truth is so precious...
Retirement from Coast Guard offers time to reflect on wrongs, hope for better times under Trump
By J.M. Phelps | American Family News Looking back on a 20-year career in the U.S. Coast Guard, a retired IT chief says an...
Forgive? First we need to drag out and discuss what we cannot forget
“Until we have a full Truth and Reconciliation Commission-like public accounting about the active discriminatory...
CRT/DEI can be technically removed but decades of indoctrination persists
The Marxist-based CRT/DEI/Woke ideology can TECHNICALLY be removed from the military but eliminating the baked-in...
Command Board at USAF Base Vandalized
A command board from the 55th Wing unit at Offutt Air Force Base in Nebraska was vandalized with the letters...
DOD Issues Implementation Guidance on Separation of Service Members With Gender Dysphoria
By C. Todd Lopez | DOD News Yesterday, military leaders across the force were issued guidance from the Defense Department on...
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...
Congressman introduces Readiness Over Wokeness Act
(Press Release) Rep. Barry Moore (AL-01) introduced the Readiness Over Wokeness Act. This legislation will codify President...
Whatever happened to that woke USAF Colonel blocked by the Senate?
So many posts on the STARRS website regarding Air Force Col. Ben Johnsson whom Republicans kept blocking from becoming a...
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...
Diversity Is Not Our Strength
Above photo: Recruits take the Naturalization Oath of Allegiance to the United States of America during a naturalization...
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...
Judge Allows CIA To Fire Official Who Played Role In Biden’s Military COVID-19 Vaccine Mandate
By Hailey Gomez | The Daily Caller News Foundation A federal district judge is allowing the CIA to fire the agency’s...
Freedom’s Last Stand: Understanding Marxist Strategies in America
Alexander Markovsky, a Soviet immigrant who grew up as the son of a high-ranking Communist Party member, brings his rare and...
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...
Disciplined Delusion and the Lohmeier Hearing
By Forrest Marion, PhD Military Historian and Air Force Veteran For a bit of ancient history, it was four years ago this...
“Constructivism and Feminism” Course at Naval War College
By CDR Salamander | Substack Last week we looked at the Naval War College. We’ll call that Episode 1. Time for Episode 2...
The Fruits of Institutional Capture: “Women, Peace, and Security”
By CDR Salamander | Substack Institutional capture is very real. Regardless of what initial intentions are, if you create...
Removing Transvestites from the Military Enhances Readiness and Lethality
By Lt. Col. Darrin Gaub, USA ret You will notice that I did not use the other “trans” word in the title because...
Additional DOD guidance on service members adversely impacted by C19 vax mandate
(DOD USD Personnel & Readiness Memo) The Department of Defense continues to take action in support of warfighters...
Reviewing the Department’s Military Educational Institution Library Collections
Statement by Chief Pentagon Spokesman and Senior Advisor, Sean Parnell: Today, the Department issued guidance to senior...
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...
Active-Duty Military on TikTok
Ongoing weird trend of active-duty servicemembers telling it all/showing it all on their TikTok accounts–in uniform. A...
Sen. Banks Asks Gen. Tata How He Will ‘All Together Eliminate’ DEI Programming From Military
During a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing on Tuesday, Senator Jim Banks questioned Brig. General Anthony J. Tata...
Senators introduce the Reaffirming Every Servicemember’s Trust Over Religious Exemptions (RESTORE) Act
(Press Release) U.S. Sens. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), Rick Scott (R-Fla.), Katie Britt (R-Ala.), and Mike Lee (R-Utah) introduced...
New Chase Spears Podcast: Finding Your Spine
Retired Army PAO Chase Spears, who spoke on our last Town Hall “The Military’s Leftwing Ideological Resistance:...
Supreme Court Allows Trump Admin To Enforce Transgender Military Ban
By Katelynn Richardson | The Daily Caller News Foundation The Supreme Court allowed the Trump administration on Tuesday to...
How Department of Defense Educational Activity Staff Co-Opted Diversity Equity and Inclusion Protests
By Lt Col. Ken Segelhorst, USA ret In early 2025, students at Department of Defense Education Activity (DoDEA) schools...
The China Threat Is Worse Than You Can Imagine
Book review of “Seven Things You Can’t Say About China” by Senator Tom Cotton. Reviewed by Capt. Brent Ramsey...
How wokeness infected even horse shows
By Judge Bruce Tucker Smith Retired United States administrative law judge 21-year veteran of the United States Air Force...
White House: “We are going to have a system of merit”
By Jessica Guynn | USA TODAY The White House put corporate America on notice that President Donald Trump plans to replace...
STARRS Presentation on April 28, 2025
STARRS President Ron Scott and Executive Vice President/General Counsel Mike Rose gave the presentation, “The American...
Statement: Providing Supplemental Remedies for Service Members and Veterans Negatively Impacted by the DOD Defunct Coronavirus Disease 2019 Vax Mandate
(DOD) Under the leadership of Secretary Hegseth, the Department of Defense has acted swiftly to support Service members and...
Former Air Force major who defied Biden vaccine mandate speaks out, applauds Hegseth
By Preston Mizell | Fox News A 16-year veteran and former Air Force major who voluntarily left the military after she...