By Dr. Scott Sturman, MD, US Air Force Academy ’72 Marxists are masters of patience, disguise, and the use of...
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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...
The Air Force has abandoned its mission in pursuit of radical social justice
By Lt Col Mike Uecker, USAF ret, USAFA ’71 As a graduate of the U.S. Air Force Academy and a veteran with more than 20...
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...
Diversity, Equity, Inclusion Is Destroying Our Military From Within
STARRS Chairman LtGen Rod Bishop (USAF ret) and Vice Chairman MajGen Joe Arbuckle (USA, ret) were on the Rob Maness Show...
The Oath
By Captain Tom Burbage, USN, ret; USNA graduate President, The Calvert Task Group In June 1965 I raised my right hand in...
The Real Threat is Ideological: Interview with STARRS Ron Scott
On News Radio 790 WAEB, STARRS President Ron Scott was interviewed by News Director Dan Holtzman. They talked about...
Freedom Matters
By CDR Dale Lawson, USN ret, test pilot Member of Calvert Group “When in the course of human events” (hopefully sounds...
Woke Wars with Major General Joe Arbuckle
STARRS Vice Chairman of the Board MG Joe Arbuckle, USA ret, was interviewed by Col. Phil Williams, USAR ret, host of the...
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...
LTC Lohmeier: Why do senior military leaders continue to push an agenda like this?
Former Space Force Commander, LTC Matthew Lohmeier (USAFA ’06) was on Jesse Watters show talking about the...
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 Continues To Expand the Nonprofits Understanding of American Radicalism
Researchers at Stand Together Against Racism and Radicalism in the Service, Inc. (STARRS) continue to expand their...
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...
Military’s crusade for ‘diversity’ a delusion, says vets group
American Family News journalist J.M. Phelp wrote an article about STARRS and interviewed STARRS LTG Rod Bishop: A group of...
Defense Department ‘Drastically Shifted Off Course’
America is facing “the most serious and alarming recruiting and retention crisis that we’ve seen since Vietnam,” Rep. Mike...
Report of the National Independent Panel on Military Service and Readiness
STARRS Chairman of the Board LTG Rod Bishop, USAF ret, is a member of the National Independent Panel on Military Service...
Records Show Air Force Academy Focus on Anti-American Critical Race Theory Training of Cadets
Judicial Watch announced today it received 167 pages of records from the U.S. Department of Defense which show the U.S. Air...
Judicial Watch Sues Department of Defense on Behalf of STARRS
STARRS filed Freedom of Information Act Requests related to claims of systemic racism at the U.S. Air Force Academy. One of...
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)...
STARRS: ‘What People are Saying’ about Radicalism in the Military
STARRS (Stand Together Against Racism and Radicalism in the Services) has collected perspectives on readiness issues from...
Evidence that the DEI/CRT agenda in the military DOES hurt recruiting and retention
From January 2023 to December 2024, STARRS collected evidence of a large elephant in the room regarding the recruiting...
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...
SPECIAL EVENT: The Assault On Our Children and Armed Forces
You are invited to attend either in-person or via livestream an evening American Conversation event on Friday, 24 March in...
STARRS Provides Model Privacy Act Request to Access Vaccine-Related Military Records
COLORADO SPRINGS, COLORADO, UNITED STATES– Military authorities repeatedly continue to claim that the military’s COVID...
STARRS Encourages Secretary of Defense to Focus on Readiness
On February 16, 2023, the Biden Administration issued an Executive Order to establish equity teams across numerous federal...
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...