By Alexander G. Markovsky Socialism is like an infectious disease—one that societies must endure in order to build immunity...
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Democratic Socialism – The Philosophy of Poverty
Here’s The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly In Congress’s New Defense Bill
By Col. William A. Woodruff, US Army lawyer, retired After The Federalist published a call for Congress to fix the broken...
The Case for a Constitutional Training Culture in the Military
By Maj. Chase Spears, USA ret “I’m not loyal to a president. I’m supporting and defending the Constitution.” This line has...
Drew Dix Podcasts – Our Changing Culture, DOD Contracting and more
Some of the latest podcasts from Drew Dix, member of the STARRS Board of Advisors: Our Changing Culture Drew Dix examines...
General Flynn Challenges DEI, Champions Warrior Ethos and Honor at West Point Board Meeting
By Matthew Newgent, USMA ’96 MacArthur Society Board Member Lt General Mike Flynn, USA ret, said at the West Point...
Do the President & SecDef Orders On Unlawful COVID Actions Matter?
By Col. Rob Maness, USAF ret STARRS Board of Advisors I’m getting the distinct impression they don’t. As our friend J.M...
Letter to the Editor: Content of Their Character
Lt. Col. Michael Uecker, USAF ret, USAFA ’71 and also a STARRS Ambassador, wrote this letter to the editor of the...
The Communism Within
Col Rob Maness, USAF ret, STARRS Board of Advisors, interviewed Soviet-born Alexander Markovsky on The Rob Maness Show: More...
West Point still has Professors Pushing Critical Race Theory
By John Hughes, USMA ’96 In February 2025, SECDEF Pete Hegseth posted the following online: “Last week, I met with the...
Surprise, Deception, Warning and War
By Lani Kass, PhD STARRS Board of Advisors “All warfare is based on deception. Offer the enemy a bait to lure him. …...
A Tribute to CDR Phillip Keuhlen, USN (Retired)
By Capt. Brent Ramsey, USN ret STARRS Board of Advisors Calvert Task Group Board of Directors It is with extreme sadness it...
Operation Midnight Hammer—Can’t We All Just Be Proud Americans?
By Lt. Gen. Rod Bishop, USAF ret, USAFA ’74 STARRS Chairman As a military aviator and veteran of more contingencies...
A Brilliant Stroke
By Capt Tom Burbage, USN ret, USNA ’69 and Bill McCauley, Navy veteran, USNA ’69 The first reaction of the Trump...
Will the Military Academies Comply on Admissions?
By CDR J.A. Cauthen, US Navy ret, USNA ’02 After years of obfuscation and denial, the U.S. Naval Academy, in a suit brought...
The Nuremberg Code and the Vaccine Mandate for Service Members
By Greg Salsbury, PhD STARRS Board of Advisors The Nuremberg Trials were an attempt to bring justice to the Nazis for some...
Drew Dix Podcast – Digging DEI from the Trenches
Drew Dix, MOH Recipient and member of the STARRS Board of Advisors provides an unfiltered analysis of DEI’s impacts...
One-Sided Reporting on Transgender USAFA Cadets Article
Opposite to the previous post, USAFA 1960s Recruiting Film: “What Makes a Man”, if things hadn’t changed, it could...
Government Malfeasance–Anthrax Vaccine Also Was Illegal
By Lt. Gen Rod Bishop, USAF ret., USAFA ’74 STARRS Chairman A retired 4-star I respect greatly asked me for more...
Accountability: Secretary of Defense Review of the Afghanistan Debacle
By Col. Rob Maness, USAF ret STARRS Board of Advisors Lt Col Scheller was right and I’m glad he’s on the team the Secretary...
Should Trump trust his generals who almost all endorsed Marxist-derived DEI?
By John Hughes, USMA ’96 “WASHINGTON, March 25 (Reuters) – China remains the top military and cyber threat to...
Dereliction of Duty at the Highest Level
By Tony Lentini, USMA ’71 Former President Joe Biden has cancer. He also suffers from dementia. Anyone with no agenda...
West Point Gets Back To Business: It’s Training for Army Officers, NOT a Liberal Arts College
By CDR Breck Henderson, US Navy veteran Dr. Graham Parsons, a professor of philosophy at West Point, recently published an...
Restoring Veterans Harmed by the Unlawful Anthrax Vax Order
By Col. Rob Maness, USAF ret STARRS Board of Advisors From his podcast: The anthrax vaccine was integrated into my Air Force...
BOOK REVIEW: Liberal Bolshevism — An American Tragedy
By Lt Col. Eric Vogel, USAF ret, USAFA ’73 This is a book review of Alexander G. Markovsky’s Liberal Bolshevism:...
Buh-Bye West Point
By pyrene* Full Professor Graham Parsons got a long screed on the sanctimony of his virtue-signaling resignation from the...
Low-Trust Military
By Major Chase Spears, USA PAO ret Sir Winston Churchill is known to have remarked that “In wartime, truth is so precious...
Kendall Qualls: The Root Of The Problems We Face
STARRS Board of Advisors member Kendall Qualls, President of TakeCharge, was on the organization’s new podcast...
Disciplined Delusion and the Lohmeier Hearing
By Forrest Marion, PhD Military Historian and Air Force Veteran For a bit of ancient history, it was four years ago this...
The Saga of Brigadier General Robert “Earthquake” Titus with William B. Scott
Presentation by Bill Scott, a member of the STARRS Board of Advisors, on Paratrooper, Fighter Pilot, Test Pilot. American...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Exterminating the DEI Virus
By Bill Scott STARRS Board of Advisors Dedicated, well-targeted campaigns created by STARRS, MacArthur Society of West...