By Elaine Donnelly, President Center for Military Readiness View this report as a PDF In 2023 the 118th Congress proposed...
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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...
The Myth of an Apolitical Military: A Call to Action
By Commander Phillip J. Keuhlen, US Navy ret, USNA ’71 By Capt. Brent Ramsey, US Navy ret STARRS Board of Advisors Over a...
The Navy and Politics: Questions That Deserve Answers
By Capt. Brent Ramsey, US Navy ret STARRS Board of Advisors Recently there has been an increase in naval threats around the...
Time for the Military to Provide Some DEI/CRT Answers
By Greg Salsbury STARRS Board of Advisors With the Pentagon requesting an additional $114M for more “diversity and inclusion...
Military leaders fail to recognize future wars will not be fought like previous ones
By Captain Gene Thomas Gomulka, US Navy ret It was reported that 2024 will mark a record low in U.S. military recruitment...
No Institution is Safe: DEI Thought Control in the Military
By Scott Sturman, USAFA ’72 Phillip J. Keuhlen, CDR, USN (Ret), USNA ’71 There is a misunderstanding that...
What Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion is Doing to the Navy
By Capt. Brent Ramsey, US Navy ret STARRS Board of Advisors At the U.S. Navy website, it says: “Navy focuses on DEI in three...
The Navy: Dead in the Water?
By Captain Brent Ramsey, US Navy ret STARRS Board of Advisors “Mission: The United States is a maritime nation, and the U.S...
Do the right thing with regards to the Marxist-based DEI: Bury it.
Email from Lt. Gen Rod Bishop to the USAFA Superintendent: Rich–as a die hard Falcon football fan, I certainly share...
What do Climate Change, DEI and Integrity Have in Common?
By MG Joe Arbuckle U.S. Army (ret) STARRS Vice Chairman The below opinion is about the connections between political...
Understanding the ‘Always Blue’ Mindset
By Greg Salsbury STARRS Board of Advisors Republicans are invariably frustrated that facts don’t move the dial in elections...
Four Great Military Reads for This Winter
By Lt Col Eric M. Vogel, USAF ret, USAFA ’73 Solitary, Giora Romm (2014) Devotion, Adam Makos (2015) Indianapolis, Lynn...
Captain Rose versus The System
Part of the mission of STARRS is to educate/call-out unlawful/harmful policies/practices in the military, like the illegal...
BOOK REVIEW: Strange New World
By Lt Col Eric M. Vogel, USAF ret, USAFA ’73 Strange New World: How Thinkers and Activists Redefined Identity and...
Cardiologist Dr Peter McCullogh Testimony on COVID Virus and Booster Shots
By Capt Joseph R. John, US Navy ret, USNA ’62 Dr Peter McCullough, an American Physician, and a world renown...
Mike Rose: DEI is manifesting itself in the military in very dangerous ways
Mike Rose, STARRS Executive Vice President and General Counsel, as well as a 1969 graduate of the US Air Force Academy gave...