By Col. Rob Maness, USAF ret STARRS Board of Advisors America’s military is the greatest fighting force in history because...
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It’s Time to Purge the Poison from All Professional Military Education
The Left’s Attack On VMI For Lack Of Wokeness Must End
By Col. Bill Conner, 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 Conner, 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.” –...
Pagans in the Military Chapels
Chaplain, Major General Charles C. Baldwin, USAF ret, USAFA ’69 STARRS Board of Advisors “Pagan worship services are...
A Salute to Military Wives
By Tony Lentini, USMA ’71 Instead of Christmas cards, my good friend Dave Higgins and his wife Jane annually send 12...
Bad News and Good News for Taiwan
By Capt. Brent Ramsey, USN ret STARRS Board of Advisors Taiwan is the number one manufacturer of the most advanced computer...
Fighting resistance and undermining from inside the Pentagon
By Col. Rob Maness, USAF ret STARRS Board of Advisors President Trump and SecWar Hegseth have issued an order to reinstate...
I’m Done Lamenting; You Should Be Too. Make 2026 a Year of Reforming Over Mourning
By Major Chase Spears, PhD, USA ret It is that time again, the beginning of a new year. Some will mark it with a list of...
The Snatch and Grab of Maduro Was Not ‘Illegal’
By Col. William A. Woodruff, US Army lawyer, retired The world woke up Saturday morning January 3, 2026, to the news that...
The Mission to Extradict Nicholas Maduro
By Col. Bill Conner, Esq., USA ret, The Citadel ’90 Chairman, STARRS Board of Advisors On January 3, 2026, the U.S...
MOH Drew Dix Inspires JROTC Students
STARRS Board of Advisors member Drew Dix, a Medal of Honor Recipient, recently gave a talk to JROTC students from Kentucky...
The Left’s Radical Ideas on Property
By Lt. General Rod Bishop, USAF ret, USAFA ’74 STARRS Chairman Emeritus NYC Mayor Mamdani’s Tenant Director, Cea...
Marxist Revolution Language
By Maj. General Joe Arbuckle, USA ret STARRS Vice Chairman In Mamdani’s speech he clearly used communist revolution words...
Unmasking the Wolf: Decoding Partisanship in Feaver’s Civil-Military Norms
By George Agese, Retired Army Officer The most dangerous wolves are those that wear the fleece of impartiality, for they...
Good Navy News: Part II
By Capt. Brent Ramsey, USN ret STARRS Board of Advisors (The first of this two-part series is here.) Joint INDOPACOM...
Rhetoric Is Unfairly Harming the Reputation of Our Military
By Col. William Connor, USA ret, The Citadel, ’90 Chairman, STARRS Board of Advisors On Dec. 4, the 2025 Reagan National...
Partisan Disparity Of Investigations – A Way Ahead To Speed Conclusion Of Investigation Of General (retired) Milley’s Conduct
By George Agese, Retired Army Officer The credibility of the United States military depends not only on its ability to...
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...
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...