By Captain Guy Higgins, U.S. Navy (Retired) In the August 2022 Proceedings, Navy Lieutenant Commander Aaron Marchant...
Category - STARRS Authors
Our Military Needs Officers Chosen For Their Qualifications, Not Skin Color
By Elaine Donnelly STARRS Board of Advisors he U.S. Supreme Court recently heard oral arguments in two cases challenging...
Has the Air Force Academy Become Just Another Liberal Arts School?
By Scott Sturman STARRS Board of Advisors member The Cadet Honor Code; high attrition rates; intense competition in...
The Air Force Academy Recruiting Crisis A Self-Inflicted Wound
By Scott Sturman, MD, USAFA ’72 STARRS Board of Advisors Like a B-17 Flying Fortress lumbering back to England with its...
The United States: Most Racist Nation Ever?
By Brent Ramsey, Capt USN, ret and Michael Pefley, Col, USAF, ret STARRS Officers Those that allege the U.S. is a racist...
RIP, Moral Courage in the Military
By Mike Pefley, STARRS VP Communications, USAFA ’74 Our nation was founded on the moral courage of patriots in order to free...
Fighting Windmills: The DOD’s Battle Against Covid
By Scott Sturman, M.D. STARRS Board of Advisors, USAFA ’72 Churchill observed, “Generals are always prepared to fight the...
Cadets On Verge of Expulsion After Religious Exemption Appeals Were Denied; STARRS Is Helping
By Tracey Meck, Col, USAF (Ret) USAFA ’87 STARRS Newsletter Editor-In-Chief Only the “best of the best” are offered...
The Black Community Has a Decision to Make
By Ken Battle, CMSgt, USAFR (Ret) STARRS Board of Directors Many black people in this country, including numerous so-called...
The Military’s Abusive Imposition of Mandatory Covid Vaccinations
By Scott Sturman STARRS Board of Advisors Member In the past, the widespread introduction of vaccines has reduced the...
How ‘Social Justice’ is Killing the Military
By Capt. Brent Ramsey, USN (Ret), STARRS Director at Large Col. Michael D. Pefley, USAF (Ret), VP of Communications for...
Yet Another Scandal at West Point? You Be the Judge (Part 3)
By William F. Prince, COL USA (Ret.), USMA ‘70 Sharp-eyed readers of the STARRS newsletters, editions 11 (15 Oct. 2021) and...
The Military’s Radical Imposition of Mandatory COVID-19 Vaccinations
By: Scott Sturman, MD, USAFA ‘72 Rod Bishop, Lt Gen, USAF (Ret), STARRS President & BOD Chairman Sen (Ret) Mike Rose...
USNA CRT/CP Smoking Gun
By Phillip Keuhlen Commander, USN (Ret), USNA ’71 If you have doubts that Critical Pedagogy and Critical Race Theory...
USNA CRT/CP Smoking Gun Train the Trainers!
By Phillip Keuhlen, Commander, USN (Ret), USNA ’71 If you have doubts that Critical Pedagogy and Critical Race Theory...
Why the Bill of Rights is the Opposite of Radicalism
By Jane Hampton Cook STARRS Board of Advisors Author of 10 books including Stories of Faith and Courage from the...
Critical Race Theory (CRT) vs Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI)
By Rod Bishop, Lt Gen, USAF (Ret) STARRS President and Board Chairman Many terms and acronyms used in public discussions...
How Implementing Diversity, Equity and Inclusion will Harm Readiness in the Armed Forces and Fail to Solve Anything
By Brent Ramsey, STARRS Director at Large, CAPT, USN (Ret) The Department of Defense is doggedly implementing the policies...
STARRS Responds to the Three Retired Generals
By Rod Bishop, Ron Scott, & Mike Rose The Washington Post published an article on Dec. 17 titled “Opinion: 3...
It’s Time for the Black Community to Embrace a Post-Racial America
By Kendall Qualls, former Army officer STARRS Board of Advisors In some respects, I feel as if we are living through a time...
Radicalism (the second R in STARRS)
By Chris Jeffries, USAFA ‘87 STARRS Editorial Staff The acronym STARRS stands for “Stand Together Against Racism and...
Self-Fulfilling Prophecy (Response to Military Times Article on Racism)
By Dr Ronald Scott Jr., Colonel, USAF (Ret), USAFA Class of ‘73 On December 3, 2021, the Military Times website published an...
Four chaplains of the USAT Dorchester
By Charles C. Baldwin, Chaplain, Maj Gen (Ret), USAF They all were Chaplains, First Lieutenant, US Army. They all were in...
George Washington Knew the Enemy, Do We?
By Jane Hampton Cook Member STARRS Board of Advisors One of the most important lessons we can learn today from George...
True Racism: Black Lives Matter
By Dr. Michael Padgett, COL, USA (Ret) What is the truth regarding racism in America? Is it the theme espoused by Black...
Yet Another Scandal at West Point? You Be the Judge (Part 2)
By William F. Prince, Col, USA (Ret), USMA ‘70 The editors of the STARRS newsletter have graciously allowed me to divide...
‘Hold the Line!’: Why the Military Must Repudiate Radical Politics
America finds itself in a culture war. While one side lives in a fundamentally flawed and systemically racist country...
A Message from STARRS’ President Lt Gen Rod Bishop, USAF (Ret)
As you may know, over a year ago, myself and a growing group of concerned citizens formed Stand Together Against Racism and...
Veterans Combat Racism and Radicalism in the Military Academies
By Lt. Gen. Rod Bishop, USAF ret, USAFA ’74 Veterans Day honors those who have served in our armed forces. One quality...
Did I Flee Communist Romania to End My Life in Communist America?
By Alex Hogue, STARRS member A few months back, I was asked a question about what correlation I saw between Critical Race...
Why Does STARRS Exist?
By Mike Pefley, STARRS VP, Communications, USAFA ‘74 Our twin American ideals of liberty and equality have made us the...
Does the Navy’s New Emphasis on ‘Diversity’ Put the Nation At Risk?
By CDR Phillip Keuhlen, US Navy ret, USNA ’71 After the 2020 summer of riots, the U.S. Navy’s Chief of Naval...
Diversity and Inclusion at USAFA – A Trojan Horse
By Scott Sturman, M.D., USAFA ’72 STARRS BOD Member In 2013 the Air Force Academy announced “The United States Air...
Gen Colin Powell, A Soldier’s Soldier (1937-2021)
By Patti Stuart, USAFA ‘87 STARRS BOD Member Inspiring Quotes by Colin Powell: – Regarding America’s leadership in...
St. Crispin’s Day
By Scott Sturman M.D., USAFA ’72 STARRS BOA member On St. Crispin’s Day, October 25, 1415, in the north of France, the...
Which United States Constitution?
By Phillip Keuhlen, USNA, ‘71 STARRS Member Fifty years ago my United States Naval Academy Class accepted its individual...
Yet Another Scandal at West Point? You Be The Judge (Part 1)
By Bill Prince, Colonel (Ret), US Army, USMA ’70 Scandal, cover-up?! Certainly, the apparent quibbling and stonewalling on...
What is STARRS Doing? Meet External Affairs
By Chris Petty, Brig Gen, USA (Ret), USMA ’87 Last week, a West Point classmate of mine shared a disheartening story...
Part 3: There Is No “I” In Honor Code
By Doug Goodman, STARRS member, USAFA ‘72 By Scott Sturman M.D., STARRS BOA member, USAFA ’72 “Duty, Honor, Country. Those...
Discrimination Against Me and the Founders’ Writings
By Jane Hampton Cook STARRS member This summer I was asked to contribute a chapter about women and religion for a book about...
Politics and the Academy Boards of Visitors
An Open Letter to STARRS Members Regarding Service Academy Board of Visitor (BOV) Firings By Rod Bishop, Lt Gen, USAF (Ret)...
On The Oath of Office
By Phillip Keuhlen, Commander, USN (Ret), USNA ’71 An oath of office has been a feature of U.S. military service since...
USAFA 1987 Graduate Leroy Homer who Heroically Died as the Co-Pilot of United Flight 93 on 9/11
By Patti Stuart, STARRS BoD Member, USAFA ‘87 From his earliest days growing up in Long Island, American hero LeRoy W. Homer...
Navy Update Part III
By Brent Ramsey, STARRS member, CAPT, USN (Ret), NROTC ‘69 Senator Cotton and Congressmen Banks, Crenshaw, and Gallagher...
“Can The Academy Survive?” PART 2 – Is Attrition A Good Thing?
By Doug Goodman, STARRS member, USAFA ‘72 By Scott Sturman M.D., STARRS BOA member, USAFA ‘72 In June 1968, 1254 of us Basic...
STARRS Navy Update, Part II
By STARRS Member Brent Ramsey, Capt, USN (Ret) In Part I, we raised questions about the Navy’s establishment of Task Force...
Personal Stories Contrasting Capitalism and Communism
By STARRS Member, Col, USAF (Ret), USAFA 1987 In late 1989 I was a young first lieutenant stationed at Comiso Air Station on...
Medal of Honor Recipient SSG Leroy A Petry, US Army
By STARRS Board Member, Patti Stuart, USAFA 1987 Modern-day hero Leroy Petry was born in New Mexico in 1979. Shortly after...
Medal of Honor Recipient Daniel K. Inouye – A Life of Service
STARRS believes it is important to tell the stories Medal of Honor recipients because they loved their country and fellow...
Questions Regarding Navy Task Force to Address Racism
By Capt. Brent Ramsey, USN (ret) STARRS VP for Opertaions On 30 June 2020, the Chief of Naval Operations established Task...