By Col. William A. Woodruff, US Army lawyer, retired In a Guest Opinion in the February 24, 2025, New York Times, former...
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Former Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall’s Claim that Trump is a “Rogue” President: Hypocrisy, Projection, or Both?
How DEI and Marxism Threaten U.S. Defense with Ronald Scott on The Truth & Liberty Show
STARRS President and CEO Col. Ron Scott, PhD, USAF ret, USAFA ’73 was interviewed on the Truth & Liberty show to...
President Trump Is Not Weakening Our National Security or Our Military
By Larry Purdy, USNA ’68 Thank you for allowing me to respond to retired Navy Admiral Dennis Blair’s commentary...
BGen Chris Walker on Glenn Beck Show
STARRS Board of Advisors member Brig. General Chris “Mookie” Walker, USAF ret, USAFA ’88, was interviewed...
Military Paradigm Swinging Away from Wokeism Toward Meritocracy
By Elaine Donnelly President, Center for Military Readiness We are witnessing in our military a major paradigm shift toward...
A Premature Death Sentence for DEI at the U.S. Naval Academy?
By CDR Phillip J. Keuhlen, USN ret, USNA ’71 During a tour of duty at the U.S. Naval Academy (USNA) as a Company Officer in...
West Point Must Come Clean
By Tony Lentini, USMA ’71 On Spring Break in 2022, five West Point cadets overdosed on cocaine laced with fentanyl...
From Flying F-4s to Fighting DEI: A Veteran’s Journey to Restore Military Values
STARRS & Stripes podcast host Al Palmer and guest Ron Olds, two veteran F-4 Phantom pilots during the Vietnam War...
Update on DEI and Vax Remedy Issues in the Military
STARRS Vice Chairman Maj Gen Joe Arbuckle, USA ret, was interviewed about DEI and the vax remedy issue in the military by...
Ever wonder why there are no statues of a post-WW2 West Point General?
By John Hughes, MD, USMA ’96 Several factors go into demand for immortalization of a West Point graduate in the form...
Response to Five Former SECDEFs “Open Letter” Criticizing Trump
By Larry Purdy, USNA ’68 Joining Rhode Island Democratic Senator Jack Reed’s partisan handwringing over President...
Of “Independence” and “Guardrails”: The Military Left’s Lamentable Response to SecDef’s Firing of Service TJAGS
By Judge Bruce Tucker Smith Retired Department of Homeland Security ALJ and retired USAF Judge Advocate On February 24...
Lethality in Education: Athenian Scholarship, Roman Virtus, Maccabean Grit, & Muscular Christianity
By Lt. Col. Chuck Duray, PhD, USA ret, USMA ’92 STARRS Volunteer For many years, the U.S. military possessed...
STARRS Presentation: The American Creed Threatened by Radical Indoctrination
STARRS Executive Vice President and General Counsel Mike Rose gave a new STARRS presentation recently to a group in South...
Did a woke West Point professor mock then Rep. Michael Waltz?
Did a woke West Point professor mock then Rep. Michael Waltz over his concern of racial indoctrination of cadets at the...
Developments at the Pentagon
Frank Gaffney, host of Securing America, talked with STARRS Vice Chairman Major General Joe Arbuckle about some of the...
Joint Position Papers and Submissions for NDAA
In November 2024, leaders and associates in STARRS teamed up with the MacArthur Society (MS) and Calvert Task Group (CTG) to...
To Achieve Unity, DEI Must End
Letter to the Editor by Larry Purdy, USNA ’68 to the Baltimore Sun regarding the article: “Military academies review...
“DACODAI was injecting a harmful Marxist ideology into our military, causing divisiveness”
Message from STARRS Chairman Rod Bishop regarding the news that SECDEF Austin’s senior DEI advisory committee, known...
America’s Future Depends on Rebuilding the Navy
By Capt. Brent Ramsey, US Navy ret STARRS Board of Advisors As reported by Defense One on 14 February 2025, “The Chinese...
DoD’s Med School (USUHS) Defies SECDEF And POTUS
By John Hughes, MD, USMA ’96 On 20 January 2025, President Trump issued Executive Order “Ending Radical and Wasteful...
America’s Future Honors Military Defenders of Freedom
Below are video and photos from an event recently held at Mar-a-Lago hosted by Lt. General Michael Flynn’s...
Chris Walker on Prioritizing National Defense & Rebuilding Military Strength
Interviewed on The Raising Cain Show was STARRS Board of Advisors member Brig. General Chris “Mookie” Walker...
Research Paper Regarding Transgenders in the Military
The Army’s tweet about no longer allowing transgenders to join the Army went completely viral in a couple of hours of...
National advocates against DEI in the military got started in Colorado Springs
The Colorado Springs Gazette did a front-page story on the work of STARRS: By Mary Shinn | Colorado Springs Gazette A...
DEI Destroyer: Retired Brigadier General Christopher Walker
STARRS Board of Advisors member Brig. General Christopher Walker, USAF ret, USAFA ’88, was interviewed on the Patriots...
LTG Gilland Is DEI At West Point
By John Hughes, MD, USMA ’96 John was the #1 graduate in his class and a 3rd Generation West Pointer. He had 4 combat...
DOD Publishes Unimpressive Memo To Address Servicemembers Forced Out During the C-19 Scam
By Lt Col. Darin Gaub, USA ret Betrayal of trust is a hard thing to overcome, and the latest memo out of the Pentagon...
Inside a Pentagon’s DEI Office
Brig. General Chris “Mookie” Walker, USAF ret, USAFA ’88, and on the STARRS Board of Advisors was recently...
Identity/Affinity Clubs at Military Academies Divide People
By Scott McQuarrie, USMA ’72, Attorney If you are not aware of this recent social media post by the USMA Deputy...
President Trump Selects Former STARRS Leader for Air Force Undersecretary
COLORADO SPRINGS, CO, UNITED STATES, February 10, 2025 /EINPresswire.com/ — President Donald Trump has picked STAND...
America’s Future To Honor Armed Services “Defenders of Freedom” at Celebrate American Exceptionalism 2025 at Mar-a-Lago
(Press Release) America’s Future, the national leader in the fight to preserve individual rights, promote American values...
Reaction to President Trump Firing the Air Force Academy Board of Visitors
Mike Rose, USAFA ’69, STARRS General Counsel and Executive Vice President, was on the Richard Randal show talking...
STARRS Attorney Mike Rose on the firing of Service Academy Board of Visitors
Mike Rose, USAFA ’69, STARRS General Counsel and Executive Vice President, was on the show Output to talk about the...
Journey to Chief: Rod McKinley on Military Service, Standards, Families and Leadership Values
STARRS & Stripes host CDR Al Palmer, USN ret, interviews STARRS Board of Directors member Rodney McKinley, who served as...
Trump’s Executive Order Ends DEI in the Military, Restores Combat Readiness
STARRS Vice Chairman Maj. General Joe Arbuckle, USA ret, was on the Kim Monson radio show on 30 January 2025 discussing the...
Army Posts, History, and the Recruiting Crisis
By Forrest L. Marion, Ph.D. Retired U.S. Air Force officer and military historian Since about 2023 nine U.S. Army posts were...
DEI Deserves An Accurate Eulogy
By Greg Salsbury, PhD STARRS Board of Advisors As President Trump’s executive orders have mercifully begun dismantling...
More Good News at USMA: Identity Clubs Disbanded
MacArthur Society The Deputy Commandant of Cadets, United States Corps of Cadets, issued a memorandum for record on February...
Book Review of “Mao’s America: a Survivor’s Warning” by Xi Van Fleet
By Lt. Colonel Eric Vogel, USAF ret, USAFA ’73 In the late 1960s, artist Andy Warhol predicted that, eventually...
Ret. Army Colonel: Wokeness is NOT Empathy
If you haven’t already, you’ll be seeing people who are indignant about the dismantling of the DEI agenda...
Not Your Father’s Army
By Col. Alexander F. C. Webster, retired US Army Chaplain STARRS Board of Advisors Four generations of Webster men have...
Remove DEI From VMI
By Carmen D. Villani, Jr. ’76 Members of the Virginia Military Institute Board of Visitors, A little over 4 years ago...
The Naval Academy Should Jettison Race-Conscious Admissions Policies
By R. Lawrence Purdy, USNA ’68 As we await the anticipated rollout of formal orders from the new Commander-in-Chief to end...
What Happened When DEI Came to the Military?
By Madeleine Rowley | Free Press Retired Air Force Brigadier General Christopher Walker, 59, spent almost two years as...
Brig. General Walker on PBS News Hour: DEI in the Military
STARRS Board of Advisors Brigadier General Chris “Mookie” Walker, USAF ret, USAFA ’88, was interviewed on...
Can DEI Be Removed From DOD?
Information Operations host L. Todd Wood (USAFA ’86) interview Brig. General Chris “Mookie” Walker (USAFA...
Trump taps officer who blasted ‘wokeness’ for Air Force undersecretary
By Stephen Losey | Air Force Times President Donald Trump on Friday tapped a former Space Force lieutenant colonel — who...
DEI at USAFA re-designated to “Dignity Respect and Leadership”
By STARRS Chairman Lt Gen. Rod Bishop, USAF ret, USAFA ’74 Dear Friends and especially Parents and Cadets, If you...