By John Lucas, USMA ’69 Army Ranger and Special Forces Green Beret; served with the 1st Calvary Division in Vietnam First...
Category - STARRS Authors
The Power of Social Media and a Connected Alumni Network
By LTC Bill Fletcher, USAF ret, USMA ’74 F-4 Fighter Pilot In modern America, if not the world, the impact of social...
West Point Changes Its Mission
By James Atticus Bowden, USMA Class of 1972 On March 7, 2024, the Superintendent of the United States Military Academy at...
Divided We Fall
By Lani Kass, PhD Served in DoD for 30 years STARRS Board of Advisors The presidential election is still 8 months away. Yet...
War Stories: Maj Gen Joe Arbuckle – Vietnam
Armed Forces Press host L Todd Wood (USAFA grad) speaks to STARRS Vice Chairman Major General Joe Arbuckle (USA, Ret) on his...
Expect the Evil
By Lt Col Darrin Gaub, US Army ret Co-Founder of Restore Liberty “Never open the door to a lesser evil, for other and...
The more diversity officers and DEI training, race relations get worse
From former Army Captain Kendall Qualls, President of TakeCharge and STARRS Board of Advisors: Gallup has been tracking race...
Liberals Against DEI: Who Knew?
By Capt. Brent Ramsey, US Navy, ret Conservatives understand DEI as the practice of critical race theory (CRT). CRT derives...
America’s military decline is deliberate
By Richard Kline, USMA 1967 Served in the US Air Force, Senior Executive Service in the govt Our military recruiting...
Thoughts on NCLS for Superintendent
Letter from Col. Ron Scott, PhD, USAF ret, USAFA ’73 STARRS President and CEO To the USAFA Superintendent Dear General...
Review: Letter to the American Church documentary
By Lt Col Eric Vogel, USAF ret USAFA ’73 The documentary movie Letter to the American Church is magnificent. Based on...
What Is DACODAI?
By Capt. Brent Ramsey, US Navy, ret The Defense Advisory Committee on Diversity and Inclusion (DACODAI) was formed in 2022...
Open Letter on the Air Force Academy’s Cultural Change
A letter to the Superintendent of the Air Force Academy by 1973 graduate Col. Ron Scott, PhD (ret). His class was...
CMR Challenge to Congress – Let’s Do More in 2024
By Elaine Donnelly, President Center for Military Readiness View this report as a PDF In 2023 the 118th Congress proposed...
The Hostile Takeover of the Air Force Academy
By Scott Sturman, MD, USAFA ’72 STARRS Board of Advisors The transformation of the Air Force Academy (AFA) from a...
Leftist “Newspeak”: Why Words and Definitions Matter
By CDR Breck Henderson, US Navy veteran, nuclear submarines Writes “The Truth Is Out There” Substack I have to...
Politics Ruins Readiness
By Capt. Brent Ramsey, US Navy ret STARRS Board of Advisors Navy Mission: “The United States is a maritime nation, and the U...
Scott Kirby is NOT the kind of leader who should be inspiring future officers
Ken Delfino, US Navy, ret Regarding USAFA NCLS speaker Scott Kirby: I am a second generation United Air Lines (UAL) retiree...
SCOTUS West Point Ruling Analysis
By Scott McQuarrie, USMA ’72 President, Veterans for Fairness and Merit SCOTUS’ ruling yesterday was, given the state...
BOOK REVIEW: The Virtue of Color-Blindness by Andre Archie
By Lt Col Eric M. Vogel, USAF ret, USAFA ’73 The Virtue of Color-Blindness, by Andre Archie Have you ever hoped to find a...
Pacific Sunset for the U.S. Navy
By Captain Brent Ramsey, USN ret STARRS Board of Advisors The existential threat represented by the People’s Republic of...
DEI Poisons The Air Force Academy
By Scott Sturman, MD, USAFA ’72 STARRS Board of Advisors I came to the Air Force Academy (AFA) in 1968 from Wyoming...
DEI Activism On USAA’s Board Of Directors
By Scott Sturman, MD USAFA ’72 STARRS Board of Advisors In mid 2023 the United Services Automobile Association (USAA)...
Focusing in on race emphasizes differences in a profession where unity and cohesiveness are paramount
Parts of a recent email from STARRS Chairman Lt. Gen. Rod Bishop (USAF, ret) to another General: . . . . The words behind...
The Gift of Faith
By Andrew P. O’Meara, Jr., West Point ’59 I confess to being a slow learner. It took me several years of fighting Communism...
DOD’s Climate Change Plan ignores science and battle-proven lessons of military history
By Dr. Scott Sturman, USAFA ’72 and Doug Goodman, USAFA ’72 Executive Order 14057 justifies the Department of...
BOOK REVIEW: The Dying Citizen: How Progressive Elites, Tribalism, and Globalization Are Destroying the Idea of America
By Lt Col Eric M. Vogel, USAF ret, USAFA ’73 Book review of The Dying Citizen: How Progressive Elites, Tribalism, and...
Meet The Standard, Not Your Opinion
By Lt. Col. Darin Gaub, US Army ret Co-founder of Restore Liberty Just like facts do not care about your opinion, a standard...
The Myth of an Apolitical Military: A Call to Action
By Commander Phillip J. Keuhlen, US Navy ret, USNA ’71 By Capt. Brent Ramsey, US Navy ret STARRS Board of Advisors Over a...
The Navy and Politics: Questions That Deserve Answers
By Capt. Brent Ramsey, US Navy ret STARRS Board of Advisors Recently there has been an increase in naval threats around the...
Time for the Military to Provide Some DEI/CRT Answers
By Greg Salsbury STARRS Board of Advisors With the Pentagon requesting an additional $114M for more “diversity and inclusion...
Military leaders fail to recognize future wars will not be fought like previous ones
By Captain Gene Thomas Gomulka, US Navy ret It was reported that 2024 will mark a record low in U.S. military recruitment...
No Institution is Safe: DEI Thought Control in the Military
By Scott Sturman, USAFA ’72 Phillip J. Keuhlen, CDR, USN (Ret), USNA ’71 There is a misunderstanding that...
What Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion is Doing to the Navy
By Capt. Brent Ramsey, US Navy ret STARRS Board of Advisors At the U.S. Navy website, it says: “Navy focuses on DEI in three...
The Navy: Dead in the Water?
By Captain Brent Ramsey, US Navy ret STARRS Board of Advisors “Mission: The United States is a maritime nation, and the U.S...
Do the right thing with regards to the Marxist-based DEI: Bury it.
Email from Lt. Gen Rod Bishop to the USAFA Superintendent: Rich–as a die hard Falcon football fan, I certainly share...
What do Climate Change, DEI and Integrity Have in Common?
By MG Joe Arbuckle U.S. Army (ret) STARRS Vice Chairman The below opinion is about the connections between political...
Understanding the ‘Always Blue’ Mindset
By Greg Salsbury STARRS Board of Advisors Republicans are invariably frustrated that facts don’t move the dial in elections...
Four Great Military Reads for This Winter
By Lt Col Eric M. Vogel, USAF ret, USAFA ’73 Solitary, Giora Romm (2014) Devotion, Adam Makos (2015) Indianapolis, Lynn...
Captain Rose versus The System
Part of the mission of STARRS is to educate/call-out unlawful/harmful policies/practices in the military, like the illegal...
BOOK REVIEW: Strange New World
By Lt Col Eric M. Vogel, USAF ret, USAFA ’73 Strange New World: How Thinkers and Activists Redefined Identity and...
Cardiologist Dr Peter McCullogh Testimony on COVID Virus and Booster Shots
By Capt Joseph R. John, US Navy ret, USNA ’62 Dr Peter McCullough, an American Physician, and a world renown...
Mike Rose: DEI is manifesting itself in the military in very dangerous ways
Mike Rose, STARRS Executive Vice President and General Counsel, as well as a 1969 graduate of the US Air Force Academy gave...
Book Review: American Doctor Coming Home to War
By Capt. Brent Ramsey, USN ret American Doctor Coming Home to War, by John Hughes, MD (available in paperback and Kindle)...
MacArthur Society of West Point Graduates incorporates as 501c3 charity
The MacArthur Society of West Point Graduates today announced its incorporation in Colorado as a 501(c)(3) charity, the...
Army: An Alternate Opinion of its Readiness
By LTC Tricia Vinson, US Army ret My topic is the COVID-19 vaccine mandate and potential impacts on the military’s readiness...
The Navy and Diversity
By Capt. Brent Ramsey, US Navy In recent years, the Navy has put a lot of emphasis on “Diversity”. If you visit the Navy’s...
All Engines Stop, Rudder Amidships: Our country is in extremis.
By CDR Tom Klocek, USN ret One of my Calvert Group (CalvertGroup69.org) colleagues quoted Fleet Admiral King as saying, “The...
The Role of the Smartphone and Digital Content in the Left’s Revolution
By Greg Salsbury STARRS Board of Advisors Christopher Rufo, Douglas Murray, and Victor Davis Hanson have all pointed out...
Where Does Loyalty Reside?
By Lt. Gen. Thomas McInerney (USAF ret), USMA ’59 Major General Paul E Vallely (US Army ret), USMA ’61 Col...