By Col. William Connor, USA ret, The Citadel, ’90 Chairman, STARRS Board of Advisors On Dec. 4, the 2025 Reagan National...
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Rhetoric Is Unfairly Harming the Reputation of Our Military
Our Flag, Education in America, and a School Newspaper
By Lt. Colonel Eric Vogel, USAF ret, USAFA ’73 STARRS Ambassador, Connecticut State Leader How do lectiophiles select...
Good Navy News
By Capt. Brent Ramsey, USN ret STARRS Board of Advisors The good news is a combination of decisions of the Trump...
FY ’26 NDAA Conference Bill
By Scott McQuarrie, USMA ’72 President of Veterans for Fairness & Merit The FY ’26 NDAA final bill is available...
Mike Rose’s Statement at USAFA BOV Meeting
STARRS Executive Vice President and General Counsel Mike Rose, USAFA ’69, made a short public statement at the US Air...
Seditious Conspiracy on Capitol Hill
By Maj. General Paull Vallely, USA ret, USMA ’61 Tony Lentini, USMA ’71 The ongoing coup conspiracy against...
Ron Recommends…. (5 DEC 25)
Recommended reading and viewing by STARRS President & CEO Col. Ron Scott, PhD, USAF ret, USAFA ’73: ARTICLE: After...
The Seditious Six
By Col. William A. Woodruff, US Army lawyer, retired The posting of a video urging members of the military to disobey...
Competition is the key to excellence in education
By Lt Col Mike Uecker, USAF ret, USAFA ’71 STARRS Ambassador, Ohio State Leader Mike Uecker School Vouchers Testimony, 22...
MG Paul Vallely – Russian Influence, Venezuela, and The Cold War
MacArthur Society President Maj. Gen. Paul Vallely, USA ret, USMA ’61 was interviewed on Frontlines of Freedom by the...
The Dire State of Our Shipbuilding Infrastructure
By Capt. Brent Ramsey, USN ret STARRS Board of Advisors In 2018 Congress mandated 355 combat force ships for the Navy...
Thoughts on Veterans and Military Family Month
By Col. Bill Connor, USA ret The Citadel, ’90 Chairman of the STARRS Board of Advisors In 2017, November was declared...
The Center for American Values promoting core values of honor, integrity, and patriotism
STARRS Board of Advisor member Drew Dix, Medal of Honor Recipient, is in a new video talking about the Center for American...
Revolution Comes to New York City
By Greg Salsbury, PhD STARRS Board of Advisors “The issue is never the issue. The issue is always the revolution.” — David...
DEI: The Billion-Dollar Zombie That Won’t Stay Dead
By Greg Salsbury, PhD STARRS Board of Advisors Despite President Trump’s Executive Order 14151 declaring DEI initiatives...
Background on fight to honor assassinated USAFA Board of Visitor member Charlie Kirk
A local Colorado radio station interviewed Lt. Gen Rod Bishop, USAF ret, USAFA ’74, in his role as a member of the...
Don’t Fall for It: Marine Colonel’s Resignation Letter Was a Move of PR Over Principle
By Major Chase Spears, PhD, USA ret There’s a respected tradition of men who stand publicly in their own name and resign in...
The New Total Marxist War
Terrorism, Treason, Lawlessness, and Attacks on the American’s Creed By Lt. Col. Eric Vogel, USAF ret, USAFA ’73...
Depriving Servicemembers of Spiritual Fortification
By Col. William Connor, USA ret The Citadel, ’90 Member STARRS Board of Advisors Despite the repudiation of cultural Marxism...
Behind the Wall of Government Schools
By Capt. Brent Ramsey, USN ret STARRS Board of Advisors You must read this book, Behind the Wall: of Government Schools, if...
A General Dilemma the War Department Must Remedy
By Major Chase Spears, PhD, USA ret In the classic movie, White Christmas, we hear a question presented in song about what...
DEI Defiance at the War Department?
Rear Admiral Will Rodriguez, US Navy, ret, The Citadel ’77 STARRS Board of Advisors In early 2025, President Trump and...
Saving the Military’s Soul: It Can Be Done If Leaders Choose
By Major Chase Spears, PhD, US Army ret What is the soul of an institution worth? Now I know that organizations don’t have...
Recentering the Rudder at the U.S. Naval Academy
The following article appeared in the U.S. Naval Institute Proceedings. Copyright U.S. Naval Institute. Reprinted with...
Medic
By William B. Scott STARRS Board of Advisors The U.S. military medical corps is in dire straits. Lt. Gen. P.K. Carlton (USAF...
Manhattan Project for Ships
By Capt. Brent Ramsey, USN ret STARRS Board of Advisors Shipbuilding, Maintenance, and Fleet Reactivation Strategy...
VMI’s “Struggle Session”
By Forrest L. Marion, Ph.D., VMI grad Retired U.S. Air Force officer and military historian Nearly five years ago I entitled...
The State Of Our Political Divide
By Greg Salsbury, PhD STARRS Board of Advisors Conventional wisdom holds that Republicans and Democrats are united in their...
Responding to Secretary Hegseth’s Speech to Senior Military Leaders
By Larry Purdy, USNA ’68 To listen to some of the critics of Secretary of War Pete Hegseth’s September 30, 2025...
Message from the Chairman of the Board: SECWAR’s Address to His Generals and Admirals — “STARRS on Steroids”
By Lt. General Rod Bishop, USAF ret, USAFA ’74 STARRS Chairman of the Board “What a great day for STARRS! ...
What Military Accountability for COVID Looks Like
By Major Chase Spears, PhD, USA ret Roughly a year before President Trump was inaugurated for the second time, I joined a...
Terrorist Attack by Military Veteran Highlights Need to Address #RevolutionariesintheRanks
By Major Chase Spears, PhD, USA ret Since the assassination of Charlie Kirk, I’ve been tracking a disturbing trend: military...
Finding Marxist Revolutionaries in the Ranks
By Col. Rob Maness, USAF ret STARRS Board of Advisors We’ve been warning America for years about Marxist infiltration of...
It’s Not Just The Rhetoric, It’s Who Controls The Mic
By Greg Salsbury, PhD STARRS Board of Advisors In the wake of the horrific and historic assassination of the brilliant young...
General Bishop: My biggest burden that I pray about
By Lt. General Rod Bishop, USAF ret, USAFA ’74 STARRS Chairman of the Board My biggest burden—one I carry every day to...
The America We Leave Behind
By Capt. Tom Burbage, USN ret President, Calvert Task Group America is no longer a two-party political system guided by a...
I Was Wrong, There IS an Extremism Epidemic in the U.S. Military
By Major Chase Spears, USA ret One of the hard realities of life is making mistakes, of believing things in youth, naivety...
Assassination culture has taken over the left and can no longer be tolerated
By Col. William Connor, USA ret, The Citadel, ’90 Member, Citadel Board of Visitors STARRS Board of Advisors On Sunday, as I...
A Blueprint for Saving Our Country
By Lt. General Tom McInerney, USAF ret, USMA ’59 Maj. General Paul E. Vallely, USA ret, USMA ’61 The...
Lt Gen Bishop nominates Charlie Kirk to be an honorary member of the USAFA AOG
Lt. General Rod Bishop, USAF ret, USAFA ’74, is on the Board of Directors of the US Air Force Academy Association of...
BOOK REVIEW: Treason or Not, Troubles in the Aftermath
By Lt. Col. Eric Vogel, USAF ret, USAFA ’73 STARRS Ambassador “Treason against the United States, shall consist only...
‘We’ll Never Surrender’: Erika Kirk Gives Emotional, Fiery Address Following Husband’s Assassination
“You have no idea the fire you have ignited in his wife. The cries of this widow will echo around the world like a battle...
Trump’s “Department of War” Rebrand Sends the Right Message
By Col. Rob Maness, USAF ret STARRS Board of Advisors President Donald Trump’s decision to restore the Department of Defense...
Conduct of USAFA AOG BOD Meetings; “Who is Terry Schwalier?”
By Mike Rose, USAFA ’69 (pictured above) USAFA AOG Member I invite you to consider my comments below about certain...
The Horse Holder for Lee
By Lt. Col. Edwin L. Kennedy, Jr, USA ret, USMA ’76 STARRS Ambassador In 2020, as a result of the drug overdose death...
Operation Rescue and Restore
By Capt. Brent Ramsey, USN ret STARRS Board of Advisors With the election of President Donald Trump and his inauguration in...
Gen. Flynn Exposes the Russian Collusion Hoax: The Deep State Secrets
Jeanne Ives, USMA ’87, interviews Lt. General Michael Flynn, USA ret, who exposes Obama’s Russian Collusion Hoax: The...
Anatomy Of A Hoax: From Lance Armstrong To Russiagate
By Greg Salsbury, PhD STARRS Board of Advisors Between 1999 and 2005, Lance Armstrong’s cycling performance simply defied...
The Status of the Navy: Part III
By Capt. Brent Ramsey, USN ret STARRS Board of Advisors On the eve of World War II, our political leaders had the foresight...