By Capt. Brent Ramsey, US Navy ret STARRS Board of Advisors All the signs were there, but most Americans did not notice them...
Category - STARRS Authors
2024 Thayer Award: What was the AOG Thinking?
By Richard Kline, USMA 1967 The woke forces in government are deeply entrenched. There are more of them than can be...
Air Force Academy Graduates Call It Quits Before Their Careers Begin
By Scott Sturman, USAFA ’72 STARRS Board of Advisors During their final year at the Air Force Academy (AFA), cadets...
CRT/DEI and the Military
By Richard Kline, USMA 1967 When the Roman legions returned from victorious campaigns, they were treated to a cheering...
CIA DEI Commissar at DACODAI Briefing: If I have issues with someone, they are not promoted
Open letter to the DACODAI Chairman from STARRS President Col Ron Scott, PhD, USAF ret, USAFA ’73 General Lester L...
Lt Gen Rod Bishop: America faces an enemy that is clearly “inside our gates”
STARRS Chairman of the Board Lt. General Rod Bishop, USAF ret, USAFA ’74, recently gave a talk at a VFW in...
What Did You Do In The War, Daddy?
By Richard Kline, USMA 1967 Served in the US Air Force, Senior Executive Service The battle for America’s soul has...
DOD Diversity Committee Shuns Sunlight
By Capt. Brent Ramsey, USN ret STARRS Board of Advisors In an earlier article, Patriot Post readers were introduced to...
Letter from Chairman of the Board of STARRS to the Leader of DACODAI
Friends, family, supporters of STARRS, and especially cadets and parents of cadets, active duty service members, members of...
DACODAI Avoids Public Criticism
By Scott Sturman, USAFA ’72 STARRS Board of Advisors In September 2021 Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin announced the...
Has Leftist Lawfare Created the Police State Yet?
By Greg Salsbury STARRS Board of Advisors Increasing numbers of worried Americans have been wondering over the last few...
American Maskirovka
By Lt Colonel Darin Gaub, US Army ret Co-Founder of Restore Liberty Maskirovka = Russian: маскировка – The use of deception...
Project 100,000 And DEI—Two Birds Of A Feather
By Scott Sturman, USAFA ’72 STARRS Board of Advisors DEI has festered within the ranks of the military for over a...
The Coast Guard Academy’s Newest DEI Push
By Michael R. Shevock, USCGA ’76 DEI is a bad idea. It is divisive, racist, and anti-meritocratic. Coleman...
Statement to DACODAI – Elaine Donnelly
Statement to DACODAI by Elaine Donnelly, President of the Center for Military Readiness This powerhouse 21-page statement...
Statement to DACODAI – Maj General Joe Arbuckle
Statement to DACODAI by Major General Joe Arbuckle, US Army ret April 23, 2024 General Lester L. Lyles (USAF, Ret.) Chairman...
Why DEI Rejects Assimilation
By Maj. General Joe Arbuckle, US Army ret STARRS Vice Chairman May 1969, a commercial bus full of sleepy recruits stopped...
Open Letter to General Lyles: Here are Some Facts on the Ground
By Lt General Rod Bishop, USAF ret, USAFA ’74 STARRS Chairman of the Board Biography As many of you know, DACODAI...
Rescuing Our Military Teams From DEI Destruction
In this episode of “Rob Maness Live,” the discussion centers on critical issues affecting the military, notably...
USAFA Grad: Disillusioned with the Direction of the Academy
By Lt. General Rod Bishop, USAF ret, USAFA ’74 STARRS Chairman of the Board Recent email sent to General Bishop:...
Stop talking past one another on the topic of diversity and inclusion
By Lt. General Rod Bishop, USAF ret, USAFA ’74 STARRS Chairman of the Board From part of an email sent out by General...
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 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...