By Lt. Col. John Ragan, USAF ret, USAFA ’71 Currently a State Representative to the Tennessee House of Representatives...
Category - STARRS Authors
The federal government colluded with social media to control content. So what?
By Greg Salsbury STARRS Board of Advisors Thomas Jefferson was no fan of newspapers, but famously said about the proposition...
The Navy and Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI)
By Capt. Brent Ramsey, USN ret The Navy is all in for DEI. At the Navy website if one clicks on “who we are,” one of the...
The USAA’s embrace of wokeness is a betrayal of its military members
By Dr. Scott Sturman, MD US Air Force Academy ’72 Since 1922, the United Services Automobile Association (USAA) has provided...
Where the DEI/CRT Indoctrination Came From, Part III
By Forrest L. Marion, Ph.D. Retired U.S. Air Force officer and military historian For many months, mainland China’s...
Ideological warfare: Woke culture is poisoning the military
By Bodi Williams, former Navy surface warfare officer There is no other way to put it: We are at war right now. Our...
Rekindling the warrior spirit: Why embracing traditional masculine virtues is vital for the US military
By Dr. Meaghan Mobbs West Point 2008 graduate and former US Army officer In a rapidly changing world, our national security...
Why Is Ridiculous Woke Ideology Being Accepted By America’s Military?
According to the Atlantic, in “2018 three scholars—James Lindsay, Helen Pluckrose, and Peter Boghossian—wrote 20 fake papers...
Military leadership is trying to hide its efforts to force leftist ideology on the ranks
By Col. Ron Scott, PhD, USAF ret, USAFA ’73 STARRS President Since the summer of 2020, members of Stand Together...
Where are the generals and admirals willing to defend the military from wokeness?
By Dr. Scott Sturman, MD US Air Force Academy ’72 If the United States military had to undergo a comprehensive, annual...
The destruction of the military by euphemisms
By Dr. Scott Sturman, MD, US Air Force Academy ’72 Marxists are masters of patience, disguise, and the use of...
Leftist obsession with diversity has conquered the US military
By Forrest Marion, PhD, retired USAF officer and military historian As 1919 began, the victors of World War I gathered in...
There is no justification for the Navy’s DEI push
By Capt. Brent Ramsey, USN ret The Constitution is the supreme law of the land. The oath that I took upon commissioning was...
Woke ideology is at odds with the oath military service members swear
By John Cauthen, USNA ’02, former Naval officer Every commissioned officer and enlisted member of the armed forces swears an...
What my first platoon sergeant taught me about military service
By Tony Lentini, USMA ’71, Army Captain Founding member of the MacArthur Society of West Point Graduates There are three...
Is the US military trying to lose wars?
By John Hughes, MD, USMA ’96, Veteran of OIF/OEF More than 10 years ago, military analysts declared the war in Afghanistan...
To push woke ideology, Biden illegally gutted military academy oversight boards
By Michael Rose, USAFA ’69 and STARRS General Counsel and Richard Epstein The military academies present positive...
Wokeness is antithetical to military service
By Tom Klocek, USNA ’69 Member of the Calvert Group “Wokeness” is all about oneself. It is political correctness on...
How DEI infiltrated the military
By Dr Scott Sturman, MD, USAFA ‘72 STARRS Board of Advisors How is it possible that in a matter of a few years, the...
Woke initiatives are creating division in the US military
By Lt. General Rod Bishop, USAF ret, USAFA ’74 STARRS Chairman of the Board Biography What is wrong with today’s...
America’s Veterans Must Unite To Defend The Republic
By LTC Paul Gardiner, USA ret America needs its millions of military veterans to become strong activists to defend...
BOOK REVIEW: Defending the Constitution Behind Enemy Lines
By Capt. Brent Ramsey, USN ret Dear Shipmates, Friends, and Colleagues, “Now Hear This!” is very familiar to all...
The Oath
By Captain Tom Burbage, USN, ret; USNA graduate President, The Calvert Task Group In June 1965 I raised my right hand in...
Freedom Matters
By CDR Dale Lawson, USN ret, test pilot Member of Calvert Group “When in the course of human events” (hopefully sounds...
Biden’s Permanent Diversity Industrial Complex
Retired Air Force Col. Rob Maness interviews Elaine Donnelly, President of the Center for Military Readiness, on his show...
Like Bud Light, The U.S. Navy Steps On A Rake With Drag Influencers
By Elaine Donnelly President, Center for Military Readiness STARRS Board of Advisors The U.S. Navy has embarrassed itself...
Open Letter to Virginia’s Chief of Diversity who said DEI is Dead
By Kendall Qualls President of TakeCharge STARRS Board of Advisors member This is an open letter in solidarity with Martin D...
DoD Reassigns School Official Kelisa Wing and Disbands CRT-Promoting DEI Office
By Elaine Donnelly Center for Military Readiness STARRS Board of Advisors Member After months of criticism of the philosophy...
When did we decide to abandon all we stand for as a nation?
By Captain Tom Burbage, USN, ret; USNA graduate President, The Calvert Task Group Too much of our national debate these days...
Who Will be the next Chief of Naval Operations?
By Captain Brent Ramsey, USN, ret Last September, the Navy promoted and installed a new Vice Chief of Naval Operations. ...
STARRS Quarterly Newsletter – April 2023
STARRS has issued its quarterly SITREP newsletter providing an update of what STARRS is doing plus in-depth articles on...
Update from the STARRS President
By Dr. Ronald J. Scott, Jr., Colonel, USAF, Retired, USAFA ’73 STARRS President and CEO For a volunteer organization that is...
STARRS Launches New Meritocracy Campaign
By Joe Arbuckle, MG, USA (Ret) STARRS Vice Chairman of the Board STARRS has initiated a “Military Meritocracy Campaign” with...
Activities of STARRS-Affliated Attorneys
By Mike Rose, USAFA ‘69 STARRS Executive Vice President, General Counsel STARRS affiliated attorneys have engaged in...
Prominent DEI Proponent and Black Scholar Gives Colvin Lecture at USAFA’s 2023 National Character and Leadership Symposium
By Tracey Meck, Colonel, USAF (Ret) USAFA ’87 STARRS Newsletter Editor and Chief Dr. Eddie Glaude Jr. was the Colvin keynote...
The Woke Military
By Tracey Meck, Colonel, USAF (Ret), USAFA ’87 Newsletter Editor and Chief Recently the senior enlisted leaders from each...
DoD Vaccine Policy Update
By Joe Arbuckle, MG, USA (Ret) STARRS Vice Chairman of the Board After NDAA Win, STARRS Continues the Fight to Restore Those...
Status of Vaccine Refusers & DoD/Service Policies
By Tracey Meck, Colonel, USAF (Ret) USAFA ’87 Newsletter Editor and Chief The FY 23 NDAA rescinded the COVID-19 vaccine...
Is There Evidence of Adverse Vaccine Impacts on Service Members?
By Tracey Meck, Colonel, USAF (Ret) USAFA ’87 Newsletter Editor and Chief The VAERS database shows more vaccine injuries in...
What You Should Know If You Have Taken the Vaccine
By Dr Scott Sturman, MD, USAFA ‘72 STARRS Board of Advisors The Pfizer mRNA vaccine trial lasted 28 days and was not...
Military Readiness or Military Wokeness?
STARRS Board of Advisors member Elaine Donnelly was interviewed on Crosstalk to discuss military readiness versus military...
The DOD Plays Hardball with Covid Vaccinations
By Scott Sturman, MD, USAFA ’72 STARRS Board of Advisors [STARRS Lt Gen Rod Bishop USA (ret) and MG Joe Arbuckle USA (ret)...
Our military is not ready to fight the PRC
By Brent Ramsey, USN Captain (ret) STARRS Member We are at war but most Americans are blissfully unaware. Folks are busy...
What Kind of Military Does Our Country Need?
By Anthony Lentini, West Point ’71 Recent incursions into American airspace by Chinese spy balloons, an increasingly...
Biden Pentagon Quietly Expands Woke Transgender Policies in the Military
By Elaine Donnelly STARRS Board of Advisors The nation is worried about serious national security threats, including Chinese...
Liars are promoting false history for a political agenda to fundamentally change America
By Brent Ramsey, retired USN Captain STARRS Member Today telling the truth has largely disappeared from public discourse...
Pentagon Quietly Expands Woke Transgender Policies in the Military
By Elaine Donnelly President, Center for Military Readiness STARRS Board of Advisors In his State of the Union speech...
The Usurpation Of Martin Luther King Day
By Scott Sturman, MD, USAFA ’72 STARRS Board of Advisors At the age of thirty-five Dr. Martin Luther King won the Nobel...
A Sailor’s Reflections on Race and the Navy
By Brent Ramsey, Captain, USN, Ret I have previously explained the concept of “shipmate” through the recounting of the Navy...
How Today’s “Diversity” Damages our Military
By Brig. General Chris Petty, USA, ret Member, STARRS Board of Directors Diversity sounds great. That’s part of the problem...