In this powerful and eye-opening STARRS Town Hall, guest speaker John Guandolo (USNA ’89 grad, former Marine officer...
Category - Issues
The Constitutional Hypocrisy of the Left
By Lt. Col. Allen West, USA ret Former Congressman Greetings everyone, and Happy New Year. Welcome to a new year for our...
America’s Military Is Back
By Senator Jim Banks As we close out 2025, the Trump Administration has racked up many big wins. But none are as significant...
DEI Resurfaces in the Marine Corps
By Col. Gary Anderson, USMC ret About this time last year The Commandant of the Marine Corps fervently declared that the...
DOD launches review of ‘effectiveness’ of women in ground combat roles
By Tanya Noury | Military Times The Pentagon has launched a formal review of the “effectiveness” of women in ground-combat...
Bookmark this for your grandchildren
Kids don’t learn in school about the Cold War and how miserable it was for people in Communist countries to live under...
The Left’s Radical Ideas on Property
By Lt. General Rod Bishop, USAF ret, USAFA ’74 STARRS Chairman Emeritus NYC Mayor Mamdani’s Tenant Director, Cea...
“Would you kill for it?”
(STARRS) Marxism is really a religion, and its followers are not atheists but are true believers in their god, the utopian...
Marxist Revolution Language
By Maj. General Joe Arbuckle, USA ret STARRS Vice Chairman In Mamdani’s speech he clearly used communist revolution words...
DEI hollowed out a generation — and sapped America’s promise
By Glenn H. Reynolds | New York Post The wholesale adoption of diversity, equity and inclusion ideology in almost all our...
Black Republican calls for total, permanent abolition of DEI: ‘I want to earn every opportunity on merit’
By Alex Nitzberg | Fox News Congressman Wesley Hunt of Texas (West Point 2004 grad) is calling for the complete and...
Director of National Intelligence Speech
On December 20, 2025, Director of National Intelligence and Army officer Tulsi Gabbard addressed Turning Point USA’s...
Reinstated former battalion commander takes up mission to help others separated over vaccine mandates
By Lt. Col. Orlandon Howard | US Army Lt. Col. Christopher Berge was a highly regarded battalion commander when the 2021...
Congress’ National Defense Plan Misses the Mark. Trump Shouldn’t Sign It
By Doug Truax, USMA’ 92 | Restoration News Congressional Republicans spent the past year vowing to voters that they...
Commander Salamander Reviews “The Lost Generation” Article
By CDR Salamander, US Navy veteran | Substack The above graphic remains one of the most descriptive graphics of our...
NDAA restores women’s policy teams canceled in Pentagon DEI purge
By Hope Hodge Seck | Military Times Days after Pete Hegseth was installed as the Pentagon’s top civilian, some all-volunteer...
The deeper effects of the miserable DEI ideology agenda
Everyone is commenting with their thoughts on the viral article, “The Lost Generation“. This tweet goes deeper...
Brutal Essay Perfectly Describes DEI’s Not-So-Secret Victims
By now you’ve probably heard or read the article, “The Lost Generation,” that has gone completely viral...
One Man’s Fight for the Many
By Justin Chartrey | Crosspolitic News From a stage in Quantico, Virginia at the end of September, Secretary of War, Pete...
Air Force One-Star General Officer’s Fight Against Autopen, Bureaucracy, and Injustice
By J.M. Phelps | Gateway Pundit Do President Donald Trump and War Secretary Pete Hegseth recognize the bureaucratic...
Biggest Military Funding Bill Still Allows Promoting Soldiers By Race And Sex
By Col. William A. Woodruff, US Army lawyer, retired Five months ago, in these pages I expressed concern that Congress was...
War Department Reevaluates Discharge Characterizations for COVID Vaccine Refusal
By C. Todd Lopez | DOW / Pentagon News For service members involuntarily discharged solely for refusing to take the COVID-19...
Statement on the Restoring Honor to Service Members Separated Under the Coronavirus Disease 2019 Vaccine Mandate Memorandum
(DOW Press Release) The Secretary of War recently directed the military departments to proactively review personnel records...
Purges, Collapse Inside CIA, and the Path to National Recovery
By Lt. General Michael Flynn, USA ret Former Director, Defense Intelligence Agency The aftermath of January 6th must be...
US Military Academies Must Sever Ties With Activist Accrediting Agency
By Victoria Manning | Restoration News As President Donald Trump works to rebuild a merit-driven, combat-ready military, the...
GOP’s 2026 NDAA Doesn’t Go Far Enough for America First Principles
By Victoria Manning | Restoration News Republicans fail to solidify Trump’s important military reforms through...
Our Flag, Education in America, and a School Newspaper
By Lt. Colonel Eric Vogel, USAF ret, USAFA ’73 STARRS Ambassador, Connecticut State Leader How do lectiophiles select...
How the political tide turned on Mark Welsh, the four-star general ousted as Texas A&M president
The continuing saga…. By Kate McGee and Nicholas Gutteridge | The Texas Tribune At first glance, Mark Welsh III’s...
Mothers of MEN
This article highlights a concerning trend that affects the military: men ‘dropping out’. By Geoffrey Ingersoll...
Federal appeals court lets Pentagon reinstate transgender service ban, says judge overstepped military leaders
By Jasmine Baehr, David Spunt, Bill Mears | Fox News A divided federal appeals court on Tuesday allowed the Pentagon to...
Update on how the US Air Force Academy is getting rid of CRT/DEI ideology
At the December 8, 2025 meeting of the Board of Visitors for the US Air Force Academy, a report was presented on how USAFA...
Florida Tech, DEI and Rick Addante’s Fight
STARRS Board of Advisors members Rick Addante, PhD, was interviewed on the Stories of Service podcast hosted by retired Navy...
Navy Public Affairs Officer Speaks Out
Dr. Chase Spears (retired Army Major PAO) welcomes Navy Commander Theresa Carpenter—30-year public affairs veteran, Stories...
DEI: Rooted in America and the Military by Cultural Marxism
For decades, Marxist and Bolshevik-inspired cultural theories have shaped American institutions, dividing society and...
Ron Recommends…. (5 DEC 25)
Recommended reading and viewing by STARRS President & CEO Col. Ron Scott, PhD, USAF ret, USAFA ’73: ARTICLE: After...
Communism. Is It Here? You Tell Me.
Young kids, having not grown up during the Cold War nor taught about it in school, have no idea how miserable Marxist...
The Trust Divide: The Hidden Factor Behind Every American Conflict Today
This explains a lot when trying to talk with or convince someone on the other side and why, as Gen. Rod Bishop often says...
A New Era Of Accountability: Hegseth’s Vision Takes Hold At The Naval Academy
By Douglas Ross, USNA Grad | The Miami Independent In a swift and unflinching move emblematic of the Trump...
An Interview With Under Secretary Of The Navy Hung Cao
By Todd Wood, USAFA ’86 | Armed Forces Press Pentagon, Washington, D.C.- I sat down with Under Secretary of the Navy...
Hegseth Considers Breaking with Woke Scouts after Longtime Pentagon Partnership
By Suzanne Bowdey | The Washington Stand The last 12 years haven’t been kind to the Boy Scouts — and they have no one to...
U.S. Military’s Alliance With Boy Scouts Could Collapse As Hegseth Calls Out DEI Overreach
By Hank Berrien | The Daily Wire War Secretary Pete Hegseth is reportedly preparing to sever the military’s century-old...
Rubio orders restitution for hundreds of staffers denied promotions under Biden DEI rule
STARRS has a Request for Help form to help military servicemembers harmed by the CRT/DEI agenda (or the C19 vax mandate)...
War Dept. Battles Internal Resistance To Reinstate 86 Soldiers Ejected By Covid Shot Mandate
Also see video after this article of the author talking about this issue. By Joy Pullman | The Federalist It’s been ten...
West Point and Naval War College Professor Calls the America First Movement a ‘Hateful Cult’
By Victoria Manning | Restoration News …and bragged that he would celebrate President Trump’s death with champagne. Retired...
Military organizations’ urgent call for pardons or amnesty ignored
By J.M. Phelps | WorldNetDaily Although the U.S. military’s mandate that service members receive the COVID-19 shot...
Texas A&M student fights back against Marxist ideology
For many STARRS readers who fought against Marxism/Communism during the Cold War, it can be frustrating to observe the...
Congressional Resolution Denouncing the Horrors of Socialism
119th CONGRESS 1st Session H. CON. RES. 58 Denouncing the horrors of socialism. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES October 24...
How Pete Hegseth Is Strengthening America’s Military
By Clifford A. Bates Jr. | The American Mind In 1991, the Tailhook scandal rocked the U.S. Navy. Hundreds of aviators at a...
‘Unwinding the Mess’: DOD Launches Task Forces to Investigate Military COVID Vaccine Mandates
By Michael Nevradakis, Ph.D. | CHD The U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) is launching two task forces to review the...
In the Hall of Heroes, a Soldier Finds His Way Back to the Uniform
By Sgt. Zack Stine | US Army Inside the Pentagon’s Hall of Heroes, a place defined by quiet reverence and the names of those...