STARRS Authors Archives

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...

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...

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...

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