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Category - STARRS Authors
What Needs to be Restored, Reformed and Improved at West Point
West Point Deletes “Duty Honor Country” from its Mission Statement
By John A. Lucas, USMA ’69 Army Ranger and Special Forces Green Beret; served with the 1st Calvary Division in Vietnam First...
The Power of Social Media and a Connected Alumni Network
By LTC Bill Fletcher, USAF ret, USMA ’74 F-4 Fighter Pilot In modern America, if not the world, the impact of social...
West Point Changes Its Mission
By James Atticus Bowden, USMA Class of 1972 On March 7, 2024, the Superintendent of the United States Military Academy at...
Divided We Fall
By Lani Kass, PhD Served in DoD for 30 years STARRS Board of Advisors The presidential election is still 8 months away. Yet...
War Stories: Maj Gen Joe Arbuckle – Vietnam
Armed Forces Press host L Todd Wood (USAFA grad) speaks to STARRS Vice Chairman Major General Joe Arbuckle (USA, Ret) on his...
Expect the Evil
By Lt Col Darrin Gaub, US Army ret Co-Founder of Restore Liberty “Never open the door to a lesser evil, for other and...
The more diversity officers and DEI training, race relations get worse
From former Army Captain Kendall Qualls, President of TakeCharge and STARRS Board of Advisors: Gallup has been tracking race...
Liberals Against DEI: Who Knew?
By Capt. Brent Ramsey, US Navy, ret Conservatives understand DEI as the practice of critical race theory (CRT). CRT derives...
America’s military decline is deliberate
By Richard Kline, USMA 1967 Served in the US Air Force, Senior Executive Service in the govt Our military recruiting...
Thoughts on NCLS for Superintendent
Letter from Col. Ron Scott, PhD, USAF ret, USAFA ’73 STARRS President and CEO To the USAFA Superintendent Dear General...
Review: Letter to the American Church documentary
By Lt Col Eric Vogel, USAF ret USAFA ’73 The documentary movie Letter to the American Church is magnificent. Based on...
What Is DACODAI?
By Capt. Brent Ramsey, US Navy, ret The Defense Advisory Committee on Diversity and Inclusion (DACODAI) was formed in 2022...
Open Letter on the Air Force Academy’s Cultural Change
A letter to the Superintendent of the Air Force Academy by 1973 graduate Col. Ron Scott, PhD (ret). His class was...
CMR Challenge to Congress – Let’s Do More in 2024
By Elaine Donnelly, President Center for Military Readiness View this report as a PDF In 2023 the 118th Congress proposed...
The Hostile Takeover of the Air Force Academy
By Scott Sturman, MD, USAFA ’72 STARRS Board of Advisors The transformation of the Air Force Academy (AFA) from a...
Leftist “Newspeak”: Why Words and Definitions Matter
By LCDR Brent Henderson, US Navy veteran, nuclear submarines Writes “The Truth Is Out There” Substack I have to...
Politics Ruins Readiness
By Capt. Brent Ramsey, US Navy ret STARRS Board of Advisors Navy Mission: “The United States is a maritime nation, and the U...
Scott Kirby is NOT the kind of leader who should be inspiring future officers
Ken Delfino, US Navy, ret Regarding USAFA NCLS speaker Scott Kirby: I am a second generation United Air Lines (UAL) retiree...
SCOTUS West Point Ruling Analysis
By Scott McQuarrie, USMA ’72 President, Veterans for Fairness and Merit SCOTUS’ ruling yesterday was, given the state...
BOOK REVIEW: The Virtue of Color-Blindness by Andre Archie
By Lt Col Eric M. Vogel, USAF ret, USAFA ’73 The Virtue of Color-Blindness, by Andre Archie Have you ever hoped to find a...
Pacific Sunset for the U.S. Navy
By Captain Brent Ramsey, USN ret STARRS Board of Advisors The existential threat represented by the People’s Republic of...
DEI Poisons The Air Force Academy
By Scott Sturman, MD, USAFA ’72 STARRS Board of Advisors I came to the Air Force Academy (AFA) in 1968 from Wyoming...
DEI Activism On USAA’s Board Of Directors
By Scott Sturman, MD USAFA ’72 STARRS Board of Advisors In mid 2023 the United Services Automobile Association (USAA)...
Focusing in on race emphasizes differences in a profession where unity and cohesiveness are paramount
Parts of a recent email from STARRS Chairman Lt. Gen. Rod Bishop (USAF, ret) to another General: . . . . The words behind...
The Gift of Faith
By Andrew P. O’Meara, Jr., West Point ’59 I confess to being a slow learner. It took me several years of fighting Communism...
DOD’s Climate Change Plan ignores science and battle-proven lessons of military history
By Dr. Scott Sturman, USAFA ’72 and Doug Goodman, USAFA ’72 Executive Order 14057 justifies the Department of...
BOOK REVIEW: The Dying Citizen: How Progressive Elites, Tribalism, and Globalization Are Destroying the Idea of America
By Lt Col Eric M. Vogel, USAF ret, USAFA ’73 Book review of The Dying Citizen: How Progressive Elites, Tribalism, and...
Meet The Standard, Not Your Opinion
By Lt. Col. Darin Gaub, US Army ret Co-founder of Restore Liberty Just like facts do not care about your opinion, a standard...