By Jake Smith | Daily Caller News Foundation The Air Force finally handed over a trove of documents pertaining to its...
Category - Issues
Helping to Correct DoD Vaccine Mandate
In this article, the author recommends that Matthew Lohmeier be named the SECAF. Good idea. By John Frankman, former U.S...
DoD Schools Are a Potemkin Village
By Amy Haywood First published on Tom Klingenstein’s website with his note: Our constitutional order is being replaced...
The Navy’s Latest ‘Woke’ Stunt Is Beyond Embarrassing
Matt Walsh talks about the Navy bragging about their latest innovation: a gender-neutral submarine. Watch the Navy’s...
Reps Skewer Army Official For Saying Trainer Who Labeled Pro-Life Orgs ‘Terrorist Groups’ Wasn’t Fired
By Jake Smith | The Daily Caller News Foundation Lawmakers scolded an Army official on Thursday for suggesting a garrison...
Hearing on Army Extremism Policies
(Press Release) U.S. Representative Jim Banks (R-IN), Chairman of the Subcommittee on Military Personnel, delivered the...
Congressman Keith Self, West Point Class of 1975: Barack Obama Does Not Embody Duty, Honor, Country
By Lt Col. Keith Self, US Army ret, USMA ’75 Current Member of Congress serving the Texas 3rd District The Colonel...
West Point grad who wrote ‘Communism will Win’ under military cap is now a Ph.D. candidate at UT Austin
By Emma Dayton | Campus Reform A West Point graduate who first made headlines for his “Communism will win” message written...
American universities are rebranding DEI departments instead of eliminating them, study finds
This is what happened to the West Point DEI office, they renamed it to the “Office of Engagement and Retention.”...
What would they say?
By Edwin R. Jonas III STARRS North Dakota State Leader For more than 40 years, the Vietnam Veterans Memorial has stood as a...
Affirmative action trial against Naval Academy begins in Baltimore
By Ian Round | Maryland Daily Record A retired Air Force general testified that racial diversity mattered “not one bit” to...
‘Don’t Give Up the Ship!’ New Book from Calvert Task Group Available Today
In honor of Constitution Day, Calvert Task Group proudly announces the launch of their latest book, DON’T GIVE UP THE SHIP...
Short Takes
Various articles seen this week too short for an entire post: Wonder why they don’t have enough sailors or pilots...
Army officials to face House grilling on training slides that designated pro-life groups as terrorists
By Morgan Phillips | Fox News House Republicans will bring in Army officials to testify at a hearing next week on a training...
Identity in the Trenches: The Fatal Impact of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion on U.S. Military Readiness
By Will Thibeau, US Army veteran, Ranger Director, American Military Project Claremont Institute (NOTE: This is the full...
Admiral’s past report on diversity draws questions from GOP senator during confirmation hearing
(Stars and Stripes) Sen. Eric Schmitt on Thursday challenged President Joe Biden’s nominee to lead Southern Command over a...
U.S. Naval Academy, affirmative action foe square off at Baltimore trial
(Reuters) The group that successfully convinced the U.S. Supreme Court to bar the consideration of race in college...
Unwinding The Dangerous Politicization Currently Gripping Our Military
By Troup Hemenway and Will Thibeau, Army veteran, Ranger Recently, former President Donald Trump stated his intent to “ask...
West Point Needs a Reset
By Tony Lentini, USMA ’71 When I attended West Point back in the late ‘60s and early ‘70s, cadets used to joke that we got a...
Preserving Military Excellence through Leadership and Unity with Tom Burbage and Bruce Davey of the Calvert Task Group
Join STARRS & Stripes podcast with host CDR Al Palmer, US Navy ret, for an inspiring conversation with leaders of the...
And Not A Shot Fired: An Insider’s Account of a Communist Takeover
This book was recommended by one of our STARRS volunteers. From the description of the book: “And Not a Shot Is Fired...
The Reflexive Alchemy of George Soros
STARRS President Col. Ron Scott, PhD, USAF ret, highly recommends listening to this podcast. James Lindsay describes George...
4-Star General: Reject the Marxist march to insanity and thus the destruction of the United States
By General B.B. Bell, US Army ret | Patriot Post Dear Fellow Citizens, The upcoming national election is not about former...
Senator: The Left has hijacked DEI to pit Americans of different races, religions, and genders against each other
(Sen. Blackburn) Senator Marsha Blackburn believes that under the Constitution, all Americans must be treated equally. Yet...
Some Military Leaders Support a ‘Highly Partisan and Leftist Ideology’ Culture
By J.M. Phelps | Gateway Pundit Rather than focusing on building better soldiers and leaders for warfighting, some...
DEI Is Sinking the U.S. Navy
By Capt. Brent D. Sadler, USN ret, USNA ’94 Fewer Ships, Recruiting Shortfalls: DEI Has Left Our Navy Less Prepared: In the...
Demographic Diversity Is Not Our Strength
By CDR Phillip J. Keuhlen, USN ret, USNA ’71 There is an old saw in leadership circles, “You get what you inspect.” It...
The U.S. Military is in CRISIS – The culture is TRASH and no one is joining
YouTuber Nate Cornacchia, a retired Green Beret out of 1st SFG with a decade of experience in Army Special Forces and...
Don’t Give Up the Ship book: CTG President Tom Burbage on the Ike Wingate Show
Calvert Task Group President Capt. Tom Burbage, US Navy ret, USNA ’69 was interviewed on the Ike Wingate Show about...
STARRS President Interviewed on KOA Radio
STARRS President Col Ron Scott, PhD, along with Laureen Boll, state coordinator for FAIR, the Foundation against Intolerance...
Military Reform: Reversing the Decline
By Col. Gary Anderson, USMC ret Retired as Chief of Staff of the Marine Corps Warfighting Lab Served as a Special Advisor to...
‘Diversity’ Doesn’t Include Disabled Veterans Like Me
By Matthew Winans, US Army Veteran At college campuses nationwide, the newest students are starting class, but I’m not among...
APP Releases a New Documentary: “Culture War: The Deadly Consequences of a Woke War Machine”
(Press Release) American Principles Project (APP) released a new documentary titled “Culture War: The Deadly Consequences...
An Anti-Woke Agenda for the US Military
By Will Thibeau, Army Ranger veteran First published on Tom Klingenstein’s website. His Note: As observed at the outset of...
How the Department of Defense Went Woke
By Will Thibeau, Army Ranger veteran First published on Tom Klingenstein’s website. His Note: Understanding our present...
The Logic of the Woke Military
By Will Thibeau, Army Ranger veteran First published on Tom Klingenstein’s website. His Note: Perhaps more explicitly than...
Marxist Indoctrination and Infiltration at West Point
Col. Rob Maness, USAF ret, interviewed Matthew Newgent, USMA ’96, and member of the MacArthur Society of West Point...
Reactionary Regressives
By CDR Phillip J. Keuhlen, USN ret, USNA ’71 Introduction: The American Revolution and the Constitution designed to protect...
We Have a Duty to Speak Up
By Christine Walker, Editor-in-Chief of AT EASE! Veterans Magazine US Navy Corpsman – Desert Storm As the editor-in...
Only Accountability Will Restore Faith in America’s Military
Col Rob Maness, USAF ret, and a STARRS Board of Advisors member, interviews Air Force veteran Briana Cespedes on his show...
‘You Will Resign or We’ll Make this Ugly’: Idaho National Guardsman Punished for Biblical Values
By Sarah Holliday | Washington Stand A Christian infantry officer is now being punished by the Idaho Army National Guard for...
The Crisis in the Armed Forces
By Will Thibeau, Army Ranger veteran First published on Tom Klingenstein’s website. His Note: A cold civil war is won...
EVENT: A Public Conversation on Marxism in CT, Trafficking in America, Rank Choice Voting, and Election Integrity – 18 Sept 24
STARRS Chairman Rod Bishop will be speaking at this evening event in Westport, CT on 18 September 2024. Buy Tickets for in...
EVENT: Diversity Without Division, Is It Possible? 12 Sept 24
STARRS President Ron Scott will be speaking at this event in Greenwood Village, Colorado, on 12 September 2024 from 6:00 to...
Congressmen Demand Answers From Coast Guard About DEI Trainings
By Bradley Devlin | The Daily Signal Has the Biden-Harris administration’s focus on so-called diversity, equity, and...
‘Why didn’t you protect me?’: Will Army leaders get a letter like this?
And Air Force, Navy, Marines and Coast Guard. Riley Gaines wrote a powerful letter questioning why the Georgia Tech...
Veteran: DOD withholds docs on whether DEI hiring improves national security
By Casey Harper | The Center Square The U.S. Department of Defense is under scrutiny for refusing to release records about...
Cigarettes, DEI and Our Military
By Dr. Greg Salsbury STARRS Board of Advisors In the early part of the last century, the popularity of smoking was at its...
Is wokeness undermining military readiness?
On “The Real Story with Jeanne Ives” radio show, Jeanne (1987 West Point grad) and retired US Navy Capt. Guy...
Response to a Retired Major General
By Col. Ron Scott, PhD, USAF ret, USAFA ’73 STARRS President & CEO Dear General _____, This is just a quick note...