STARRS Archives

Removing Transvestites from the Military Enhances Readiness and Lethality

By Lt. Col. Darrin Gaub, USA ret You will notice that I did not use the other “trans” word in the title because...

New Chase Spears Podcast: Finding Your Spine

Retired Army PAO Chase Spears, who spoke on our last Town Hall “The Military’s Leftwing Ideological Resistance:...

Drew Dix Podcast – Pushback within the Department of Defense

Drew Dix explores a critical threat to national defense. Is internal resistance threatening the mission? Watch: 00:00 Balls...

The China Threat Is Worse Than You Can Imagine

Book review of “Seven Things You Can’t Say About China” by Senator Tom Cotton. Reviewed by Capt. Brent Ramsey...

How wokeness infected even horse shows

By Judge Bruce Tucker Smith Retired United States administrative law judge 21-year veteran of the United States Air Force...

Response to Opinion Piece on USAFA civilian reduction plans

STARRS President Col. Ron Scott, PhD, USAF ret, USAFA ’73 wrote a letter to the editor of the Denver Post in reference...

STARRS Presentation on April 28, 2025

STARRS President Ron Scott and Executive Vice President/General Counsel Mike Rose gave the presentation, “The American...

Lohmeier defends qualifications for Air Force post as senators question past remarks

By Sandra Erwin | Space News Matthew Lohmeier, President Trump’s nominee for undersecretary of the Department of the Air...

Lohmeier, Nominee for Under SECAF, Defends Record in Confirmation Hearing

By Greg Hadley | Air & Space Forces Magazine Matthew Lohmeier, who was fired from a Space Force squadron command just...

Drew Dix Podcast – Pushback From Within

Drew Dix on pushback from within, is it undermining America’s strength? He also talks about the pushback in the military...

Fired For Exposing The Biden-Era Military’s Marxist Drift, Former Officer Pledges To Restore ‘Accountability’ To The Force

By Shawn Fleetwood | The Federalist A former fighter pilot previously fired for warning about the embrace of Marxism in...

The Military’s Back, Baby: Why America’s Youth Are Signing Up Again

By Col. Rob Maness, USAF ret STARRS Board of Advisors The United States military is seeing its biggest recruitment surge in...

Matthew Lohmeier Hearing for Under Secretary of the Air Force held 1 May 2025

The Senate Armed Services Committee held a hearing to consider the nomination of Matthew Lohmeier to be the Under Secretary...

It is time to admit what the Marxist Left has done to black Americans

By Kendall Qualls, US Army Veteran President of TakeCharge STARRS Board of Advisors It is time for native black Americans...

STARRS President on Reclaim San Diego Radio Show

Col. Ron Scott, USAF ret, President & CEO of STARRS was interviewed on Reclaim San Diego radio show while he and STARRS...

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...

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...

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