By Major Chase Spears, USA ret Donald Trump is now the 47th President and Commander in Chief of the U.S. Armed Forces...
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It’s Time for Conservatives in the Military to Join the Fight
Urgent Defense Recommendations for the Trump Administration
By Capt. Brent Ramsey, USN ret STARRS Board of Advisors President-elect Trump has made recent statements in favor of the...
VMI’s Integrity at Stake
By Sal Vitale, VMI ’61 For several years, I, along with other concerned alumni, diligently worked to restore the...
Fallout from The Big Lie
By Maj. General Joseph Arbuckle, US Army ret and Greg Salsbury, PhD There were signs President Joe Biden wasn’t calling the...
Standing up against Marxist ideology – Speech by LTG Rod Bishop
On December 27 STARRS Chairman Lt. Gen. Rod Bishop received–on behalf of STARRS–an award/donation from the...
Trump Versus DEI in the Military
By Capt. Brent Ramsey, USN ret STARRS Board of Advisors We already know what President Trump thinks of DEI. He tried to rid...
Reducing Senior Officer Billet Bloat Requires Leadership
By Forrest L. Marion, Ph.D. Retired U.S. Air Force officer and military historian In December 1944, nearly a week into the...
Toxic Loyalty: Longevity as a flawed basis for Generals’ promotions
By John Hughes, MD, USMA ’96 ‘Toxic Loyalty’: “Blind loyalty to bad leaders and protected employees irrationally serves the...
Gen (Ret) Lloyd Austin’s Troubling Legacy of DEI, Covid, Losing Wars and War Profiteering
By John Hughes, MD, USMA ’96 GEN (Retired) Lloyd Austin will be replaced as SECDEF once the new administration’s pick...
Oops, He (LTG Gilland) Did It Again! Another West Point Scandal!
By John Hughes, MD, USMA ’96 Here we go again… Last week national news outlets reported that ProPublica tried to...
A New Spirit: No More Living the Lies of Wokeism
By CDR Breck Henderson, US Navy veteran When I woke up on the morning of November 6, I felt that America was changed. A new...
How to End Wokism in the Military: Trump White House and Congress Should Work Together to Strengthen Our Military
By Elaine Donnelly, President Center for Military Readiness The outgoing 118th Congress has voted for solid steps in favor...
The Daniel Penny Verdict is a Turning Point
By Greg Salsbury, PhD STARRS Board of Advisors Calling Jordan Neely a serial criminal seems like an understatement. With 42...
The “Deep State” at West Point. Say it Ain’t So!
By Col. Bill Prince, USA ret, USMA ’70 MacArthur Society President Comments on West Point’s Involvement in Providing...
The 2024 Election Was A Referendum On Reality
By Greg Salsbury, PhD STARRS Board of Advisors As the fog of battle from the 2024 presidential race is lifting, it is...
The narcissistic DC Swamp is gaslighting Americans again
STARRS For a long time, Americans have been gaslit by the narcissistic snob establishment “elites” in DC running...
Forgive, But Don’t Forget
ARMY magazine refused to publish this letter to the editor because they said it was “political.” We’re...
The ‘Woke’ Awakening
By Greg Salsbury, PhD STARRS Board of Advisors It is as though America has suddenly woken up from a bad dream—ironically and...
Weakness, Not Wokeness, Plagues US Generals
By John Hughes, MD, former US Army officer, 4 combat tours of duty in Iraq and Afghanistan, USMA ’96 “The...
Message from Brig. General Christopher “Mookie” Walker
For those who don’t know me, my name is Chris, callsign “Mookie”, Walker and I retired last year as a Brigadier General...
Let’s Make the Air Force Academy Soar Once More
By Patrick “Kit” Bobko, USAF veteran, USAFA ’91 Here are five things to make the venerable institution, which has struggled...
Americans
By Capt. Guy Higgins, US Navy ret, USNA ’69 Member of the Calvert Task Group If you listen to, well, anything, today –...
Purdy Statement to USNA Board of Visitors
To: The Honorable C. A. “Dutch” Ruppersberger (D-MD) Chairman U. S. Naval Academy Board of Visitors -and...
SECDEF Austin’s Woke Destruction of Reconciliation Memorial
By Lt. Col. Edwin L. Kennedy, Jr, US Army ret and Ms Lunnelle Sigel Of all the woke agenda advanced by the Biden-Harris...
Recommending Brig. Gen. Schwalier for the Air Force ‘Plucking Board’
By Forrest L. Marion, Ph.D. Retired U.S. Air Force officer and military historian In the mid-1990s, Brig. Gen. Terryl J...
Listen to the People
By STARRS We The People have spoken during this historic election. Despite the constant media propaganda, it turns out the...
Reviewing ‘We All Wear Green, We All Bleed Red’
By Capt. Brent Ramsey, USN ret STARRS Board of Advisors Larry Purdy has written a lengthy article titled “We All Wear Green...
New Department of Defense Directive: A License To Kill American Citizens?
By Tony Lentini, USMA ’71 I was a West Point cadet on May 4, 1970, the day Ohio National Guard troops opened fire on...
Forging a National Security Agenda: An Open Letter to the Presidential Candidates
By Lani Kass, PhD, served in DOD for 29 years STARRS Board of Advisors NOTE: The original version of this essay was...
Want To Thank Vets for Their Military Service? Vote Like You Mean It
By Major Chase Spears, PhD, USA ret By this point in the presidential election cycle, most voters have likely come across...