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The Playbook and its Players
By Scott McQuarrie, USMA ’72 Leader Quality Matters Who would continue DEI training/indoctrination when the majority of the...
Who Will Lead?
By Scott McQuarrie, USMA ’72 President, Veterans for Fairness and Merit If we fail to reverse our present course, our...
Correcting The Air Force Academy’s Accountability And Transparency Problems
By Scott Sturman, USAFA ’72 Who in the profession of arms possess the requisite courage to storm the beaches of...
If ‘Diversity Is Our Strength,’ Why Is Our Military So Weak?
By Elaine Donnelly President, Center for Military Readiness STARRS Board of Advisors Our military is in trouble. Chronic...
Oppenheimer and The Manchurian Candidate
By Capt. Tom Burbage, US Navy ret, USNA ’69 Hollywood is often a great escape from the realities of life. Sometimes...
STARRS Announces Appointment of New Board of Advisors Member Dr. Lani Kass
Stand Together Against Racism and Radicalism in the Services, Inc. (STARRS) announced today that Dr. Lani Kass has been...
What exactly are “Army Values?”
By Capt. Gene Thomas Gomulka, US Navy ret In 1992, while serving as the Deputy Chaplain of the U.S. Marine Corps, I was...
The Institution or the Constitution
By Commander Robert A. Green Jr., US Navy and Vice Admiral W. Dean Lee, US Coast Guard, ret STARRS Board of Advisors Member...
Navy Leadership Failures
By Capt. Brent Ramsey, US Navy ret STARRS Board of Advisors In recent years, there have been incidents, accidents, and...
Additional Material Worth Sharing with the DACODAI Committee
By Lt General Rod Bishop, USAF ret, USAFA ’74 STARRS Chairman of the Board General Lyles, once again there has been a...
Answers to Questions re Service Academy Admissions and a Change to the Mission Statement
By Scott McQuarrie, USMA ’72 President, Veterans for Fairness and Merit A USNA grad emailed some perceptive questions...
Why the DoD Should Drop DEI and Affirm Meritocracy in the Military
By Elaine Donnelly President, Center for Military Readiness STARRS Board of Advisors For more than 30 years, mostly civilian...
A Navy in Decline
By Capt. Brent Ramsey, USN ret STARRS Board of Advisors In 1890, Alfred Thayer Mahan, a renowned naval strategist, published...
‘Duty, Honor, Country’ versus ‘Army Values’
By Tony Lentini, USMA ’71 West Point’s superintendent created a firestorm among the American public with his announcement...
What Needs to be Restored, Reformed and Improved at West Point
From America Free News Network: Over the past several days, there has been a royal donnybrook spawned by the decision of the...
West Point Deletes “Duty Honor Country” from its Mission Statement
By John Lucas, USMA ’69 Army Ranger and Special Forces Green Beret; served with the 1st Calvary Division in Vietnam First...
The Power of Social Media and a Connected Alumni Network
By LTC Bill Fletcher, USAF ret, USMA ’74 F-4 Fighter Pilot In modern America, if not the world, the impact of social...
West Point Changes Its Mission
By James Atticus Bowden, USMA Class of 1972 On March 7, 2024, the Superintendent of the United States Military Academy at...
Divided We Fall
By Lani Kass, PhD Served in DoD for 30 years STARRS Board of Advisors The presidential election is still 8 months away. Yet...
‘Transsexualism’ is Rising Wildly in the Military, According to Seven Years of Public Health Data
By J. M. Phelps | Gateway Pundit Based on ICD-10 diagnosis codes related to transgenderism, the number of occurrences in...
War Stories: Maj Gen Joe Arbuckle – Vietnam
Armed Forces Press host L Todd Wood (USAFA grad) speaks to STARRS Vice Chairman Major General Joe Arbuckle (USA, Ret) on his...
Expect the Evil
By Lt Col Darrin Gaub, US Army ret Co-Founder of Restore Liberty “Never open the door to a lesser evil, for other and...
STARRS VIDEO: Out of Many, ONE
We’re DONE with all of the affinity/culture club groups at the service academies which separate, divide and have an...
The more diversity officers and DEI training, race relations get worse
From former Army Captain Kendall Qualls, President of TakeCharge and STARRS Board of Advisors: Gallup has been tracking race...
Liberals Against DEI: Who Knew?
By Capt. Brent Ramsey, US Navy, ret Conservatives understand DEI as the practice of critical race theory (CRT). CRT derives...
America’s military decline is deliberate
By Richard Kline, USMA 1967 Served in the US Air Force, Senior Executive Service in the govt Our military recruiting...
Thoughts on NCLS for Superintendent
Letter from Col. Ron Scott, PhD, USAF ret, USAFA ’73 STARRS President and CEO To the USAFA Superintendent Dear General...
Review: Letter to the American Church documentary
By Lt Col Eric Vogel, USAF ret USAFA ’73 The documentary movie Letter to the American Church is magnificent. Based on...
Project 2025 Prepares People & Policies to Undo the Damage by the Left
STARRS, MacArthur Society of West Point Graduates, Calvert Task Group, and Center for Military Readiness are among 100...
What Is DACODAI?
By Capt. Brent Ramsey, US Navy, ret The Defense Advisory Committee on Diversity and Inclusion (DACODAI) was formed in 2022...
DACODAI: A Little-Known Cultural Agent Pushing the CRT/DEI Agenda in the Military
The DEI agenda push in the military has been harmful to recruitment, retention, and morale, which has led to the current...
Open Letter on the Air Force Academy’s Cultural Change
A letter to the Superintendent of the Air Force Academy by 1973 graduate Col. Ron Scott, PhD (ret). His class was...
Does West Point still reflect “Duty, Honor, Country?”
Col. Bill Prince, US Army ret, USMA ’70, and President of the MacArthur Society of West Point Graduates was on the...
CMR Challenge to Congress – Let’s Do More in 2024
By Elaine Donnelly, President Center for Military Readiness View this report as a PDF In 2023 the 118th Congress proposed...
The Hostile Takeover of the Air Force Academy
By Scott Sturman, MD, USAFA ’72 STARRS Board of Advisors The transformation of the Air Force Academy (AFA) from a...
Briefings for DACODAI Committee
The Defense Advisory Committee on Diversity and Inclusion (DACODAI) was set up in September 2022 by SECDEF Austin to...
STARRS MG Arbuckle on military current events
Colonel Phil Williams, US Army (Ret.), host of Rightside Radio, interviewed STARRS Vice Chairman Maj. General Joe Arbuckle...
STARRS on Frontlines of Freedom Show
Denny Gillem, USMA ’64, and host of Frontlines of Freedom interviewed STARRS Director of Education Sam Thiessen, USMA...
Leftist “Newspeak”: Why Words and Definitions Matter
By CDR Breck Henderson, US Navy veteran, nuclear submarines Writes “The Truth Is Out There” Substack I have to...
Politics Ruins Readiness
By Capt. Brent Ramsey, US Navy ret STARRS Board of Advisors Navy Mission: “The United States is a maritime nation, and the U...
Scott Kirby is NOT the kind of leader who should be inspiring future officers
Ken Delfino, US Navy, ret Regarding USAFA NCLS speaker Scott Kirby: I am a second generation United Air Lines (UAL) retiree...
SCOTUS West Point Ruling Analysis
By Scott McQuarrie, USMA ’72 President, Veterans for Fairness and Merit SCOTUS’ ruling yesterday was, given the state...
BOOK REVIEW: The Virtue of Color-Blindness by Andre Archie
By Lt Col Eric M. Vogel, USAF ret, USAFA ’73 The Virtue of Color-Blindness, by Andre Archie Have you ever hoped to find a...
Pacific Sunset for the U.S. Navy
By Captain Brent Ramsey, USN ret STARRS Board of Advisors The existential threat represented by the People’s Republic of...
DEI Poisons The Air Force Academy
By Scott Sturman, MD, USAFA ’72 STARRS Board of Advisors I came to the Air Force Academy (AFA) in 1968 from Wyoming...
DEI Activism On USAA’s Board Of Directors
By Scott Sturman, MD USAFA ’72 STARRS Board of Advisors In mid 2023 the United Services Automobile Association (USAA)...
Focusing in on race emphasizes differences in a profession where unity and cohesiveness are paramount
Parts of a recent email from STARRS Chairman Lt. Gen. Rod Bishop (USAF, ret) to another General: . . . . The words behind...
Graphics to Use to Explain the Threat
STARRS has created two infographics you can download and use to explain the connection of the DEI agenda to Marxism, and...
STARRS finally receives response from USAFA re a 2021 FOIA but 38 out of 48 pages are redacted
USAFA has something to hide? What are they, the CIA? On January 16, 2024, USAFA responded to STARRS FOIA 2021-03598-F, filed...