By John Hughes, MD, USMA ’96 Several factors go into demand for immortalization of a West Point graduate in the form...
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Response to Five Former SECDEFs “Open Letter” Criticizing Trump
By Larry Purdy, USNA ’68 Joining Rhode Island Democratic Senator Jack Reed’s partisan handwringing over President...
Of “Independence” and “Guardrails”: The Military Left’s Lamentable Response to SecDef’s Firing of Service TJAGS
By Judge Bruce Tucker Smith Retired Department of Homeland Security ALJ and retired USAF Judge Advocate On February 24...
Lethality in Education: Athenian Scholarship, Roman Virtus, Maccabean Grit, & Muscular Christianity
By Lt. Col. Chuck Duray, PhD, USA ret, USMA ’92 STARRS Volunteer For many years, the U.S. military possessed...
STARRS Presentation: The American Creed Threatened by Radical Indoctrination
UPCOMING SCHEDULE: STARRS Leaders Ron Scott and Mike Rose will be giving the American Creed presentation in Mt. Pleasant...
Did a woke West Point professor mock then Rep. Michael Waltz?
Did a woke West Point professor mock then Rep. Michael Waltz over his concern of racial indoctrination of cadets at the...
Joint Position Papers and Submissions for NDAA
In November 2024, leaders and associates in STARRS teamed up with the MacArthur Society (MS) and Calvert Task Group (CTG) to...
To Achieve Unity, DEI Must End
Letter to the Editor by Larry Purdy, USNA ’68 to the Baltimore Sun regarding the article: “Military academies review...
“DACODAI was injecting a harmful Marxist ideology into our military, causing divisiveness”
Message from STARRS Chairman Rod Bishop regarding the news that SECDEF Austin’s senior DEI advisory committee, known...
America’s Future Depends on Rebuilding the Navy
By Capt. Brent Ramsey, US Navy ret STARRS Board of Advisors As reported by Defense One on 14 February 2025, “The Chinese...
DoD’s Med School (USUHS) Defies SECDEF And POTUS
By John Hughes, MD, USMA ’96 On 20 January 2025, President Trump issued Executive Order “Ending Radical and Wasteful...
Research Paper Regarding Transgenders in the Military
The Army’s tweet about no longer allowing transgenders to join the Army went completely viral in a couple of hours of...
LTG Gilland Is DEI At West Point
By John Hughes, MD, USMA ’96 John was the #1 graduate in his class and a 3rd Generation West Pointer. He had 4 combat...
DOD Publishes Unimpressive Memo To Address Servicemembers Forced Out During the C-19 Scam
By Lt Col. Darin Gaub, USA ret Betrayal of trust is a hard thing to overcome, and the latest memo out of the Pentagon...
Identity/Affinity Clubs at Military Academies Divide People
By Scott McQuarrie, USMA ’72, Attorney If you are not aware of this recent social media post by the USMA Deputy...
Army Posts, History, and the Recruiting Crisis
By Forrest L. Marion, Ph.D. Retired U.S. Air Force officer and military historian Since about 2023 nine U.S. Army posts were...
DEI Deserves An Accurate Eulogy
By Greg Salsbury, PhD STARRS Board of Advisors As President Trump’s executive orders have mercifully begun dismantling...
More Good News at USMA: Identity Clubs Disbanded
MacArthur Society The Deputy Commandant of Cadets, United States Corps of Cadets, issued a memorandum for record on February...
Book Review of “Mao’s America: a Survivor’s Warning” by Xi Van Fleet
By Lt. Colonel Eric Vogel, USAF ret, USAFA ’73 In the late 1960s, artist Andy Warhol predicted that, eventually...
Ret. Army Colonel: Wokeness is NOT Empathy
If you haven’t already, you’ll be seeing people who are indignant about the dismantling of the DEI agenda...
Not Your Father’s Army
By Col. Alexander F. C. Webster, retired US Army Chaplain STARRS Board of Advisors Four generations of Webster men have...
Remove DEI From VMI
By Carmen D. Villani, Jr. ’76 Members of the Virginia Military Institute Board of Visitors, A little over 4 years ago...
The Naval Academy Should Jettison Race-Conscious Admissions Policies
By R. Lawrence Purdy, USNA ’68 As we await the anticipated rollout of formal orders from the new Commander-in-Chief to end...
DEI at USAFA re-designated to “Dignity Respect and Leadership”
By STARRS Chairman Lt Gen. Rod Bishop, USAF ret, USAFA ’74 Dear Friends and especially Parents and Cadets, If you...
It’s Time for Conservatives in the Military to Join the Fight
By Major Chase Spears, USA ret Donald Trump is now the 47th President and Commander in Chief of the U.S. Armed Forces...
Urgent Defense Recommendations for the Trump Administration
By Capt. Brent Ramsey, USN ret STARRS Board of Advisors President-elect Trump has made recent statements in favor of the...
VMI’s Integrity at Stake
By Sal Vitale, VMI ’61 For several years, I, along with other concerned alumni, diligently worked to restore the...
Fallout from The Big Lie
By Maj. General Joseph Arbuckle, US Army ret and Greg Salsbury, PhD There were signs President Joe Biden wasn’t calling the...
Standing up against Marxist ideology – Speech by LTG Rod Bishop
On December 27 STARRS Chairman Lt. Gen. Rod Bishop received–on behalf of STARRS–an award/donation from the...
Trump Versus DEI in the Military
By Capt. Brent Ramsey, USN ret STARRS Board of Advisors We already know what President Trump thinks of DEI. He tried to rid...
Reducing Senior Officer Billet Bloat Requires Leadership
By Forrest L. Marion, Ph.D. Retired U.S. Air Force officer and military historian In December 1944, nearly a week into the...
Toxic Loyalty: Longevity as a flawed basis for Generals’ promotions
By John Hughes, MD, USMA ’96 ‘Toxic Loyalty’: “Blind loyalty to bad leaders and protected employees irrationally serves the...
Gen (Ret) Lloyd Austin’s Troubling Legacy of DEI, Covid, Losing Wars and War Profiteering
By John Hughes, MD, USMA ’96 GEN (Retired) Lloyd Austin will be replaced as SECDEF once the new administration’s pick...
Oops, He (LTG Gilland) Did It Again! Another West Point Scandal!
By John Hughes, MD, USMA ’96 Here we go again… Last week national news outlets reported that ProPublica tried to...
A New Spirit: No More Living the Lies of Wokeism
By CDR Breck Henderson, US Navy veteran When I woke up on the morning of November 6, I felt that America was changed. A new...
How to End Wokism in the Military: Trump White House and Congress Should Work Together to Strengthen Our Military
By Elaine Donnelly, President Center for Military Readiness The outgoing 118th Congress has voted for solid steps in favor...
The Daniel Penny Verdict is a Turning Point
By Greg Salsbury, PhD STARRS Board of Advisors Calling Jordan Neely a serial criminal seems like an understatement. With 42...
The “Deep State” at West Point. Say it Ain’t So!
By Col. Bill Prince, USA ret, USMA ’70 MacArthur Society President Comments on West Point’s Involvement in Providing...
The 2024 Election Was A Referendum On Reality
By Greg Salsbury, PhD STARRS Board of Advisors As the fog of battle from the 2024 presidential race is lifting, it is...
The narcissistic DC Swamp is gaslighting Americans again
STARRS For a long time, Americans have been gaslit by the narcissistic snob establishment “elites” in DC running...
Forgive, But Don’t Forget
ARMY magazine refused to publish this letter to the editor because they said it was “political.” We’re...
The ‘Woke’ Awakening
By Greg Salsbury, PhD STARRS Board of Advisors It is as though America has suddenly woken up from a bad dream—ironically and...
Weakness, Not Wokeness, Plagues US Generals
By John Hughes, MD, former US Army officer, 4 combat tours of duty in Iraq and Afghanistan, USMA ’96 “The...
Message from Brig. General Christopher “Mookie” Walker
For those who don’t know me, my name is Chris, callsign “Mookie”, Walker and I retired last year as a Brigadier General...
Let’s Make the Air Force Academy Soar Once More
By Patrick “Kit” Bobko, USAF veteran, USAFA ’91 Here are five things to make the venerable institution, which has struggled...
Americans
By Capt. Guy Higgins, US Navy ret, USNA ’69 Member of the Calvert Task Group If you listen to, well, anything, today –...
Purdy Statement to USNA Board of Visitors
To: The Honorable C. A. “Dutch” Ruppersberger (D-MD) Chairman U. S. Naval Academy Board of Visitors -and...
SECDEF Austin’s Woke Destruction of Reconciliation Memorial
By Lt. Col. Edwin L. Kennedy, Jr, US Army ret and Ms Lunnelle Sigel Of all the woke agenda advanced by the Biden-Harris...
Recommending Brig. Gen. Schwalier for the Air Force ‘Plucking Board’
By Forrest L. Marion, Ph.D. Retired U.S. Air Force officer and military historian In the mid-1990s, Brig. Gen. Terryl J...
Listen to the People
By STARRS We The People have spoken during this historic election. Despite the constant media propaganda, it turns out the...