By Lt. General Rod Bishop, USAF ret, USAFA ’74 STARRS Chairman of the Board From part of an email sent out by General...
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Stop talking past one another on the topic of diversity and inclusion
Our Service Academies Must Discard Race-Based Admissions
By Lawrence Purdy, USNA ’68 Eliminating racial discrimination means eliminating all of it… [T]he Equal Protection Clause …...
CMR Statement to DoD: Reassess and Revoke Harmful DEI Policies
By Elaine Donnelly President, Center for Military Readiness The Center for Military Readiness (CMR) has submitted a formal...
Ridding America of CRT/DEI: Target the Budget
By Richard Kline, USMA 1967 Served in the US Air Force, Senior Executive Service in the govt The battle to rid America of...
Open Letter to Classmates, II
By Col. Ron Scott, PhD USAF ret, USAFA ’73 STARRS President Follow up to Open Letter to Flag Officer Classmates In an...
Our Time To Choose: The Institution or The Constitution
On the Rob Maness Show, interview with Commander Rob Green and Vice Admiral William “Dean” Lee, USCG ret: Description: The...
New Book–“Earthquake”: Brig. Gen. Robert Titus, Fighter Pilot
Bill Scott, former Bureau Chief for Aviation Week, has written a new book about Air Force fighter pilot Brigadier General...
The Playbook and its Players
By Scott McQuarrie, USMA ’72 Leader Quality Matters Who would continue DEI training/indoctrination when the majority of the...
Who Will Lead?
By Scott McQuarrie, USMA ’72 President, Veterans for Fairness and Merit If we fail to reverse our present course, our...
Correcting The Air Force Academy’s Accountability And Transparency Problems
By Scott Sturman, USAFA ’72 Who in the profession of arms possess the requisite courage to storm the beaches of...
If ‘Diversity Is Our Strength,’ Why Is Our Military So Weak?
By Elaine Donnelly President, Center for Military Readiness STARRS Board of Advisors Our military is in trouble. Chronic...
Oppenheimer and The Manchurian Candidate
By Capt. Tom Burbage, US Navy ret, USNA ’69 Hollywood is often a great escape from the realities of life. Sometimes...
What exactly are “Army Values?”
By Capt. Gene Thomas Gomulka, US Navy ret In 1992, while serving as the Deputy Chaplain of the U.S. Marine Corps, I was...
The Institution or the Constitution
By Commander Robert A. Green Jr., US Navy and Vice Admiral W. Dean Lee, US Coast Guard, ret STARRS Board of Advisors Member...
Navy Leadership Failures
By Capt. Brent Ramsey, US Navy ret STARRS Board of Advisors In recent years, there have been incidents, accidents, and...
Additional Material Worth Sharing with the DACODAI Committee
By Lt General Rod Bishop, USAF ret, USAFA ’74 STARRS Chairman of the Board General Lyles, once again there has been a...
Answers to Questions re Service Academy Admissions and a Change to the Mission Statement
By Scott McQuarrie, USMA ’72 President, Veterans for Fairness and Merit A USNA grad emailed some perceptive questions...
Why the DoD Should Drop DEI and Affirm Meritocracy in the Military
By Elaine Donnelly President, Center for Military Readiness STARRS Board of Advisors For more than 30 years, mostly civilian...
A Navy in Decline
By Capt. Brent Ramsey, USN ret STARRS Board of Advisors In 1890, Alfred Thayer Mahan, a renowned naval strategist, published...
‘Duty, Honor, Country’ versus ‘Army Values’
By Tony Lentini, USMA ’71 West Point’s superintendent created a firestorm among the American public with his announcement...
What Needs to be Restored, Reformed and Improved at West Point
From America Free News Network: Over the past several days, there has been a royal donnybrook spawned by the decision of the...
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...