By Capt. Brent Ramsey, US Navy, ret The Defense Advisory Committee on Diversity and Inclusion (DACODAI) was formed in 2022...
Category - STARRS
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...
The Gift of Faith
By Andrew P. O’Meara, Jr., West Point ’59 I confess to being a slow learner. It took me several years of fighting Communism...
DOD’s Climate Change Plan ignores science and battle-proven lessons of military history
By Dr. Scott Sturman, USAFA ’72 and Doug Goodman, USAFA ’72 Executive Order 14057 justifies the Department of...
BOOK REVIEW: The Dying Citizen: How Progressive Elites, Tribalism, and Globalization Are Destroying the Idea of America
By Lt Col Eric M. Vogel, USAF ret, USAFA ’73 Book review of The Dying Citizen: How Progressive Elites, Tribalism, and...
Meet The Standard, Not Your Opinion
By Lt. Col. Darin Gaub, US Army ret Co-founder of Restore Liberty Just like facts do not care about your opinion, a standard...
The Myth of an Apolitical Military: A Call to Action
By Commander Phillip J. Keuhlen, US Navy ret, USNA ’71 By Capt. Brent Ramsey, US Navy ret STARRS Board of Advisors Over a...
The Navy and Politics: Questions That Deserve Answers
By Capt. Brent Ramsey, US Navy ret STARRS Board of Advisors Recently there has been an increase in naval threats around the...
Time for the Military to Provide Some DEI/CRT Answers
By Greg Salsbury STARRS Board of Advisors With the Pentagon requesting an additional $114M for more “diversity and inclusion...
Military leaders fail to recognize future wars will not be fought like previous ones
By Captain Gene Thomas Gomulka, US Navy ret It was reported that 2024 will mark a record low in U.S. military recruitment...
STARRS Recommendations to Political Candidates Regarding the Military
STARRS is available to give a briefing to educate candidates running for election regarding the military. Below are the...
No Institution is Safe: DEI Thought Control in the Military
By Scott Sturman, USAFA ’72 Phillip J. Keuhlen, CDR, USN (Ret), USNA ’71 There is a misunderstanding that...
What STARRS Accomplished in 2023 Because of You
As we approach the end of the year by celebrating Christmas and the holiday season and the hope and joy this holiday...
Brig. Gen. Chris Walker Talk at STARRS Town Hall with Q&A
Recently retired US Air Force Brigadier General Christopher Walker was the guest speaker at a December 2023 STARRS Town Hall...
What Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion is Doing to the Navy
By Capt. Brent Ramsey, US Navy ret STARRS Board of Advisors At the U.S. Navy website, it says: “Navy focuses on DEI in three...
The Navy: Dead in the Water?
By Captain Brent Ramsey, US Navy ret STARRS Board of Advisors “Mission: The United States is a maritime nation, and the U.S...
Do the right thing with regards to the Marxist-based DEI: Bury it.
Email from Lt. Gen Rod Bishop to the USAFA Superintendent: Rich–as a die hard Falcon football fan, I certainly share...
What do Climate Change, DEI and Integrity Have in Common?
By MG Joe Arbuckle U.S. Army (ret) STARRS Vice Chairman The below opinion is about the connections between political...
Interview with Army MG Joe Arbuckle (ret)
STARRS Vice Chairman MG Joe Arbuckle (US Army ret) was a guest on Rightside Radio with host Col. Phil Williams (USA ret)...
Frontlines of Freedom Radio interviews John Hughes, BG Chris Petty
The following are two consecutive weekend programs of Frontlines of Freedom with interviews of MacArthur Society President...
Understanding the ‘Always Blue’ Mindset
By Greg Salsbury STARRS Board of Advisors Republicans are invariably frustrated that facts don’t move the dial in elections...
The Rise and Fall of Empires
STARRS Vice Chairman MG Joe Arbuckle, US Army ret, was recently on the Dan Happel Connecting the Dots podcast. He was joined...
Four Great Military Reads for This Winter
By Lt Col Eric M. Vogel, USAF ret, USAFA ’73 Solitary, Giora Romm (2014) Devotion, Adam Makos (2015) Indianapolis, Lynn...
STARRS Concerns About Growing Transgenderism Policy in the Department of Defense
The Merchant Marine Academy released a policy last month about transgenderism. The policy makes comprehensive provisions to...
What happened to our Military?
STARRS has a released a new 8-minute video to warn how extensive the US military has been infiltrated by the Marxist...
Captain Rose versus The System
Part of the mission of STARRS is to educate/call-out unlawful/harmful policies/practices in the military, like the illegal...
Current World Events as Backdrop, Reminds Americans and Former Senior Military Officers of Purpose of STARRS
“On-going military conflicts In Israel and Western Europe, plus anti-Israel, pro-Hamas protests in America, should remind...
STARRS Explains the Impact of America’s Red-Green Axis During the Current News Cycle
Americans are inundated with the current news cycle that includes conflicts between Russia and Ukraine, Israel and...
BOOK REVIEW: Strange New World
By Lt Col Eric M. Vogel, USAF ret, USAFA ’73 Strange New World: How Thinkers and Activists Redefined Identity and...
American Citizens Should Support the NDAA
STARRS (Stand Together Against Racism and Radicalism in the Services) is requesting Americans contact their elected...
Cardiologist Dr Peter McCullogh Testimony on COVID Virus and Booster Shots
By Capt Joseph R. John, US Navy ret, USNA ’62 Dr Peter McCullough, an American Physician, and a world renown...
Mike Rose: DEI is manifesting itself in the military in very dangerous ways
Mike Rose, STARRS Executive Vice President and General Counsel, as well as a 1969 graduate of the US Air Force Academy gave...