Col. Ron Scott, USAF ret, President & CEO of STARRS was interviewed on Reclaim San Diego radio show while he and STARRS...
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STARRS President on Reclaim San Diego Radio Show
Rod Bishop and Sam Shoemate on Securing America
Frank Gaffney, host of Securing America on Real America’s Voice network, interviewed STARRS Chairman Rod Bishop and...
Matthew Lohmeier Hearing for Under Secretary of the Air Force to be held 1 May 2025
The Senate Armed Services Committee has announced that the hearing to consider the nomination of Matthew Lohmeier to be the...
Drew Dix Podcast – Women in the Military
STARRS Board of Advisors member Drew Dix answers questions from last week’s Readiness episode and talks specifically...
Mixing Military and Politics
By Col. Phil Williams, USA ret STARRS Board of Advisors U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth issued a new directive that...
Response to USAFA Professor
This is a response the STARRS Chairman gave to a long post on Facebook written by an assistant professor of English at USAFA...
If Congress Doesn’t Step In, Rogue Judges Will Trans The Military
By Elaine Donnelly President, Center for Military Readiness Former Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer recently...
LETTERS: AFA cutting civilian staff; a very specific mission
STARRS President Ron Scott wrote a letter to the editor of the Colorado Springs Gazette in response to an article: AFA...
STARRS Town Hall | The Military’s Leftwing Ideological Resistance: Fighting Back Against the Military Reforms of the President and SecDef
STARRS held its quarterly Town Hall meeting on 9 April 2025 with special guest speakers Sam Shoemate, a retired Army...
Reviving Warfighter Culture by Removing Divisive DEI – With Brig. General Chris Petty, USA ret
In this episode of STARRS & Stripes, host CDR Al Palmer, USN ret, interviews STARRS Board of Directors member retired...
Drew Dix on Military Readiness and the Warrior Ethos
STARRS Board of Advisors Drew Dix explores the Warrior Ethos and US military readiness to fight and win the next war: (and...
The Order Was To Purge DEI, Not History
By Major Chase Spears, PhD, US Army, ret Served as an Army PAO Several times recently I started to write a warning to the...
The Great Revealing: Americans are waking up to how they’ve been deceived
By Greg Salsbury, PhD STARRS Board of Advisors In a recent piece, I analogized the Democrats’ propaganda machine and the...
Pentagon Review of Close Combat Training Standards is Long Overdue
By Elaine Donnelly President, Center for Military Readiness The Center for Military Readiness (CMR) applauds Secretary of...
Service Academy Hearing a Missed Opportunity
By Richard Kline, USMA 1967 Served in the US Air Force Senior Executive Service, retired On March 26th, the Senate Armed...
STARRS Leaders to Give “American Creed” Presentations in California
STARRS President Ron Scott and Executive Vice President/General Counsel Mike Rose will be giving three public presentations...
Exterminating the DEI Virus
By Bill Scott STARRS Board of Advisors Dedicated, well-targeted campaigns created by STARRS, MacArthur Society of West...
A Capitol Hill Dud
By Colleen Roberts STARRS co-CT State Leader Anyone anticipating verbal ‘fireworks’ during the March 26, 2025 SASC “Status...
How To Deal With “Signalgate”—a Guide to the Perplexed
By Lani Kass, PhD STARRS Board of Advisors Last week, The Atlantic published an explosive report claiming that its editor-in...
The ‘Good News’ According to Chuck Schumer
By Lt Col Eric Vogel, USAF ret, USAFA ’73 STARRS CT State Leader “The good news here is we did put 235 judges...
STARRS President and CEO Dr. Ron Scott Appears on Truth & Liberty Show
Dr. Ronald Scott discusses DEI and Marxism threat to U.S. Defense on GTN COLORADO SPRINGS, CO, UNITED STATES, April 1, 2025...
US NAVY IN EXTREMIS! Facing China’s Growing Maritime Threat with Capt. Brent Ramsey, USN ret.
America faces a maritime crisis that few citizens recognize but that threatens our national security at its core. In this...
The Opposition complex is an extraordinarily powerful, technologically sophisticated, and overwhelmingly partisan machine
By Greg Salsbury, PhD STARRS Board of Advisors In a recent piece, the great Victor Davis Hanson apologized to his readers...
The Real Cold War with Drew Dix
STARRS Board of Advisor Drew Dix, a Medal of Honor Recipient, talks about his previously sensitive operational mission in...
The Constitution Comes First: How Our Military Legal System Lost Its Way – Judge Bruce Tucker Smith
On this episode of STARRS & Stripes, host Al Palmer talks with Judge Bruce Tucker Smith, a 21-year veteran JAG officer...
The Woke Military: A Question of Paternity
By Judge Bruce Tucker Smith Retired USAF Judge Advocate and DHS Administrative Law Judge The woke military is the bastard...
Former Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall’s Claim that Trump is a “Rogue” President: Hypocrisy, Projection, or Both?
By Col. William A. Woodruff, US Army lawyer, retired In a Guest Opinion in the February 24, 2025, New York Times, former...
How DEI and Marxism Threaten U.S. Defense with Ronald Scott on The Truth & Liberty Show
STARRS President and CEO Col. Ron Scott, PhD, USAF ret, USAFA ’73 was interviewed on the Truth & Liberty show to...
President Trump Is Not Weakening Our National Security or Our Military
By Larry Purdy, USNA ’68 Thank you for allowing me to respond to retired Navy Admiral Dennis Blair’s commentary...
BGen Chris Walker on Glenn Beck Show
STARRS Board of Advisors member Brig. General Chris “Mookie” Walker, USAF ret, USAFA ’88, was interviewed...
Military Paradigm Swinging Away from Wokeism Toward Meritocracy
By Elaine Donnelly President, Center for Military Readiness We are witnessing in our military a major paradigm shift toward...
A Premature Death Sentence for DEI at the U.S. Naval Academy?
By CDR Phillip J. Keuhlen, USN ret, USNA ’71 During a tour of duty at the U.S. Naval Academy (USNA) as a Company Officer in...
West Point Must Come Clean
By Tony Lentini, USMA ’71 On Spring Break in 2022, five West Point cadets overdosed on cocaine laced with fentanyl...
From Flying F-4s to Fighting DEI: A Veteran’s Journey to Restore Military Values
STARRS & Stripes podcast host Al Palmer and guest Ron Olds, two veteran F-4 Phantom pilots during the Vietnam War...
Update on DEI and Vax Remedy Issues in the Military
STARRS Vice Chairman Maj Gen Joe Arbuckle, USA ret, was interviewed about DEI and the vax remedy issue in the military by...
Ever wonder why there are no statues of a post-WW2 West Point General?
By John Hughes, MD, USMA ’96 Several factors go into demand for immortalization of a West Point graduate in the form...
Response to Five Former SECDEFs “Open Letter” Criticizing Trump
By Larry Purdy, USNA ’68 Joining Rhode Island Democratic Senator Jack Reed’s partisan handwringing over President...
Of “Independence” and “Guardrails”: The Military Left’s Lamentable Response to SecDef’s Firing of Service TJAGS
By Judge Bruce Tucker Smith Retired Department of Homeland Security ALJ and retired USAF Judge Advocate On February 24...
Lethality in Education: Athenian Scholarship, Roman Virtus, Maccabean Grit, & Muscular Christianity
By Lt. Col. Chuck Duray, PhD, USA ret, USMA ’92 STARRS Volunteer For many years, the U.S. military possessed...
STARRS Presentation: The American Creed Threatened by Radical Indoctrination
STARRS Executive Vice President and General Counsel Mike Rose gave a new STARRS presentation recently to a group in South...
Did a woke West Point professor mock then Rep. Michael Waltz?
Did a woke West Point professor mock then Rep. Michael Waltz over his concern of racial indoctrination of cadets at the...
Developments at the Pentagon
Frank Gaffney, host of Securing America, talked with STARRS Vice Chairman Major General Joe Arbuckle about some of the...
Joint Position Papers and Submissions for NDAA
In November 2024, leaders and associates in STARRS teamed up with the MacArthur Society (MS) and Calvert Task Group (CTG) to...
To Achieve Unity, DEI Must End
Letter to the Editor by Larry Purdy, USNA ’68 to the Baltimore Sun regarding the article: “Military academies review...
“DACODAI was injecting a harmful Marxist ideology into our military, causing divisiveness”
Message from STARRS Chairman Rod Bishop regarding the news that SECDEF Austin’s senior DEI advisory committee, known...
America’s Future Depends on Rebuilding the Navy
By Capt. Brent Ramsey, US Navy ret STARRS Board of Advisors As reported by Defense One on 14 February 2025, “The Chinese...
DoD’s Med School (USUHS) Defies SECDEF And POTUS
By John Hughes, MD, USMA ’96 On 20 January 2025, President Trump issued Executive Order “Ending Radical and Wasteful...
America’s Future Honors Military Defenders of Freedom
Below are video and photos from an event recently held at Mar-a-Lago hosted by Lt. General Michael Flynn’s...
Chris Walker on Prioritizing National Defense & Rebuilding Military Strength
Interviewed on The Raising Cain Show was STARRS Board of Advisors member Brig. General Chris “Mookie” Walker...