By Col. Rob Maness, USAF ret STARRS Board of Advisors Host of the Rob Maness Show Today we’re exposing a jaw-dropping...
Category - STARRS Authors
Harmful Ideologies: USAF Doc Reassured Colleagues They Can’t Be Sued-Sex Changes on Minor
Conservatives Must Reclaim American Education Now
By Brig. General Mick Zais, PhD, USA ret, USMA ’69 Vice Chairman of STARRS Board of Directors For years, Americans...
Reflecting On Those Who Gave The Last Full Measure
By Lt. Col. Darin Gaub, USA ret Today, we gather not for celebration, but for remembrance. We gather beneath the flag of the...
The Art of War, Not the Deal
By Lt. Col. Allen West, USA ret STARRS Board of Advisors Executive Director of the American Constitutional Rights Union...
How the Digital Switchboard Turns Conformity into Evil
By Greg Salsbury, PhD STARRS Board of Advisors History’s worst crimes are not usually carried out by cartoon villains. They...
SERE, the USAF, and the Iran Rescue
By Kit Bobko USAFA ’91 USAF veteran The Schwarzenegger-movie heroics and flat-out audacity the Air Force and her sister...
What It Really Means to Be a Man
STARRS President Col. Ron Scott, PhD, USAF ret, highly recommends this video: From the video description: What does it mean...
To the VMI Family: VMI’s Single Sanction Honor System – Not Ordinary
By Carmen Villani, VMI ’76 Corps of Cadets, Alumni, and VMI Community: As a 1976 graduate and having the privilege and...
Where Eagles Dare
By Lt. Col. Allen West, USA ret STARRS Board of Advisors Executive Director of the American Constitutional Rights Union ...
America at 250: Common Sense 2026
By William B. Scott | Substack “These are the times that try men’s souls: The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will...
Proof you can’t always trust what’s on social media
Something weird going on in social media regarding Undersecretary of the Air Force Matthew Lohmeier. At the end of April...
The Fifth Column: A Primer
By Lt. Col. Buzz Patterson, USAF ret STARRS Board of Advisors Fellow Americans and fellow pilots — buckle up. As a retired...
Intentional, Irresponsible Speech
By Lt. Col. Allen West, USA ret Executive Director of the American Constitutional Rights Union STARRS Board of Advisors As a...
Teach Your Kids the Meaning of Memorial Day
By Buck Torske, retired Navy Chief Petty Officer May 1st marked fifty-one years since I stood on the signal bridge of the...
The Coming American: USAFA AOG BOD Membership Moment
By Col. Ron Scott, PhD, USAF ret, USAFA ’73 STARRS President & CEO This is a presentation I made on Friday at the...
We should all want GROUND TRUTH–and we sure aren’t getting it from our legacy media
By Lt. General Rod Bishop, USAF ret, USAFA ’74 STARRS Board of Directors Chairman Emeritus See the above headline in a...
A Lesson Of History: People of True Christian Faith are Always Outnumbered
By Lt. Col. Darin Gaub, US Army ret “Enter by the narrow gate. For the gate is wide and the way is easy that leads to...
Accreditation and West Point
Brig. Gen. Mitchell M. Zais, (ret.) Ph.D. Vice Chairman of the STARRS Board of Directors Remarks Delivered by Webinar to the...
LTC West: Instill honor, integrity, patriotism, and character in the next generation
Former US Congressman Lt. Col. Allen West, USA ret, who is the Executive Director of the American Constitutional Rights...
Crewmen Waiting To Be Rescued Don’t Need DEI, They Need A Competent Military
By Col. William A. Woodruff, US Army lawyer, retired As the details of the complex, daring, and successful rescue of two...
The ‘Moral Imperative’ Behind the Rescues in Iran
By Forrest L. Marion, Ph.D. Retired U.S. Air Force officer and military historian The writer gratefully acknowledges this...
”What do you want your military to be?”
By Lt Colonel Robert “Buzz” Patterson, USAF ret STARRS Board of Advisors “There are ways in which a ruler can bring...
How the Homeland Became a Combat Zone
By Major Chase Spears, PhD, ret USA PAO During a dinner at the annual gathering of the Ciceronian Society on March 19, a...
West Point: Sword Making or Swordsmanship?
By then-Lt. Col. Mitchell M. Zais, USA, USMA ’69 March 1990 Armed Forces Journal International (Now retired Army Brig...
Let’s accomplish the objectives!
By Lt. Gen. Rod Bishop, USAF ret, USAFA ’74 STARRS Chairman Emeritus Regarding the article on Military Times, Pentagon...
USNA BOV Member is Beneath Contempt
By Lawrence Purdy, USNA ’68 United States Senator Chris Van Hollen’s suggestion – without offering any proof —...
Where Have All the Young Men Gone?
By Lt. Col. Karen McKay, USA ret When Richard Nixon ended the draft in January 1973, America lost something vital to its...
Drones, Strategy, and the Modern Airpower Revolution
By Lt. Col. Darin Gaub, US Army ret In the early twentieth century, airplanes transformed warfare. In the twenty-first...
American Ally: The Republic of Korea
By Capt. Brent Ramsey, USN ret STARRS Board of Advisors The Republic of Korea (ROK), more commonly called South Korea, and...
Department of War Scorecard in President Trump’s Second Term
By Capt. Brent Ramsey, USN ret STARRS Board of Advisors What are the successes of the Department of War (DOW) since...
In Defense of What? The Real Crisis at America’s War Colleges Isn’t Criticism—It’s Denial
By Col. Rob Maness, USAF ret STARRS Board of Advisors I read Matthew Woessner’s piece “In Defense of War...
Never Fly Alone | A Tribute to America’s Airmen
At the Air Force Association’s 2026 Warfare Symposium, audiences witnessed the world premiere of an original tribute...
The Thirty Year Fight Against Anthrax Mandates and Illegal Orders
Dr. Chase Spears (retired Army PAO) welcomes retired Air Force Colonel Tom Rempfer, whose nearly 30-year battle against the...
Communist China Active Threat: Inside and Out
By Col. Rob Maness, USAF ret STARRS Board of Advisors Folks, today we’re diving deep into America’s greatest...
West Point’s Agincourt Moment: Leadership Clinging to Outdated Tactics While Drones and AI Redefine Warfare
By Matthew Newgent, USMA 1996 I, along with other members of the MacArthur Society, attended the USMA Board of Visitors...
Observations of Operation Epic Fury
By Col. Bill Connor, Esq., USA ret, The Citadel ’90 Chairman, STARRS Board of Advisors On Saturday morning I woke up to...
The VMI Experience — Impending Disaster or Restoration
By Carmen D. Villani Jr., VMI ’76 In recent weeks, the Virginia Military Institute (VMI) has come under attack by...
The United States, the Philippines, and the Defense of Taiwan
By Capt. Brent Ramsey, USN ret STARRS Board of Advisors The U.S. has enduring ties to the Philippines. The Philippines were...
Strengthening America’s Military with Amber Smith
By Col. Rob Maness, USAF ret, STARRS Board of Advisors interviews Amber Smith, STARRS Board of Advisors The US military has...
It’s Time to Purge the Poison from All Professional Military Education
By Col. Rob Maness, USAF ret STARRS Board of Advisors America’s military is the greatest fighting force in history because...
The Left’s Attack On VMI For Lack Of Wokeness Must End
By Col. Bill Connor, Esq., USA ret, The Citadel ’90 Chairman, STARRS Board of Advisors As happened with Joe Biden in 2020...
Only a Conservative Military is Capable of Defending the United States
By Major Chase Spears, PhD, USA ret Last month a federal circuit court panel in Washington, D.C. upheld the Department of...
General Bishop: “Disappointed in how political our country has become”
By Lt. General Rod Bishop, USAF ret, USAFA 1974 STARRS Chairman Emeritus Given the controversy in the USAFA Association of...
An Insurrection Similar to 2020 We Cannot Lose
By Col. Bill Connor, Esq., USA ret, The Citadel ’90 Chairman, STARRS Board of Advisors In the summer of 2020, nationwide...
How Japan and China’s History Impacts Taiwan
By Capt. Brent Ramsey, USN ret STARRS Board of Advisors A thousand years ago, the Mongols of China warred upon Japan. Later...
Why America’s Colleges Are Far More Fragile Than They Appear
ROTC at colleges produce the largest source of military officers. By Greg Salsbury, PhD STARRS Board of Advisors and John...
A nation cannot survive treason from within
By Col. Ron Scott, PhD, USAF ret, USAFA ’73 STARRS President & CEO Earlier this week, the spouse of a VERY high...
BOOK REVIEW | The Truth: Stranger—and More Dangerous—Than Fiction
By Lt. Col. Eric Vogel, USAF ret, USAFA ’73 STARRS Ambassador and Connecticut State Leader Hey, I’m no f—ing criminal...
The Democrats’ Coup 2.0 Agenda Demands Accountability
By Major Chase Spears, PhD, USA ret I think, in many ways, the uniformed military may help save us from this president.” –...