By Greg Salsbury, PhD STARRS Board of Advisors In a recent piece, I analogized the Democrats’ propaganda machine and the...
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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...
Research Paper Regarding Transgenders in the Military
The Army’s tweet about no longer allowing transgenders to join the Army went completely viral in a couple of hours of...
National advocates against DEI in the military got started in Colorado Springs
The Colorado Springs Gazette did a front-page story on the work of STARRS: By Mary Shinn | Colorado Springs Gazette A...
DEI Destroyer: Retired Brigadier General Christopher Walker
STARRS Board of Advisors member Brig. General Christopher Walker, USAF ret, USAFA ’88, was interviewed on the Patriots...
LTG Gilland Is DEI At West Point
By John Hughes, MD, USMA ’96 John was the #1 graduate in his class and a 3rd Generation West Pointer. He had 4 combat...
DOD Publishes Unimpressive Memo To Address Servicemembers Forced Out During the C-19 Scam
By Lt Col. Darin Gaub, USA ret Betrayal of trust is a hard thing to overcome, and the latest memo out of the Pentagon...
Inside a Pentagon’s DEI Office
Brig. General Chris “Mookie” Walker, USAF ret, USAFA ’88, and on the STARRS Board of Advisors was recently...
Identity/Affinity Clubs at Military Academies Divide People
By Scott McQuarrie, USMA ’72, Attorney If you are not aware of this recent social media post by the USMA Deputy...
President Trump Selects Former STARRS Leader for Air Force Undersecretary
COLORADO SPRINGS, CO, UNITED STATES, February 10, 2025 /EINPresswire.com/ — President Donald Trump has picked STAND...
America’s Future To Honor Armed Services “Defenders of Freedom” at Celebrate American Exceptionalism 2025 at Mar-a-Lago
(Press Release) America’s Future, the national leader in the fight to preserve individual rights, promote American values...
Reaction to President Trump Firing the Air Force Academy Board of Visitors
Mike Rose, USAFA ’69, STARRS General Counsel and Executive Vice President, was on the Richard Randal show talking...
STARRS Attorney Mike Rose on the firing of Service Academy Board of Visitors
Mike Rose, USAFA ’69, STARRS General Counsel and Executive Vice President, was on the show Output to talk about the...
Journey to Chief: Rod McKinley on Military Service, Standards, Families and Leadership Values
STARRS & Stripes host CDR Al Palmer, USN ret, interviews STARRS Board of Directors member Rodney McKinley, who served as...
Trump’s Executive Order Ends DEI in the Military, Restores Combat Readiness
STARRS Vice Chairman Maj. General Joe Arbuckle, USA ret, was on the Kim Monson radio show on 30 January 2025 discussing the...
