By Jake Smith | The Daily Caller News Foundation The Army was hit with a lawsuit on Friday after ignoring transparency...
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Your Mother Wears Combat Boots
By William Thibeau | Claremont Institute The American military is widely seen as the last bastion of institutional...
Lawyers offer closing arguments in trial over whether Naval Academy can consider race in admissions
By Alex Mann | The Baltimore Sun The question of whether the Naval Academy can continue to consider an applicant’s race in...
America’s Military Can’t Endure Another Four Years Of Democrat Rule
By Shawn Fleetwood | The Federalist (STARRS does not advocate for any candidate or party) Nobody understood the concept of...
Months After Biden’s Promise to Pardon Thousands of LGBTQ Veterans, Only 8 Have Applied
From Military.com: The White House claimed that “thousands” of veterans could benefit when President Biden announced this...
U.S. Army Drops Diversity Requirement For Selecting High-Level Non-Commissioned Officers
By Ashe Schow | Daily Wire The top enlisted leader of the U.S. Army has issued guidance removing the requirement for...
Rep. Banks Launches Probe Into Air Force’s ‘Goal’ To Reduce ‘White Male Population’ Joining Officer Ranks
By Jake Smith | Daily Caller News Foundation Republican Indiana Rep. Jim Banks is probing the Air Force regarding...
U.S. Naval Academy on Trial for Unconstitutional Use of Race in Admissions (The Legal Arguments: Part 1 of 3)
By Capt. Charles “Cully” Stimson, US Navy JAG Corps, ret | Daily Signal Can the United States Naval...
Book Review of “Lies My Liberal Teacher Told Me” by Dr. Wilfred Reilly
By Capt. Brent Ramsey, US Navy ret STARRS Board of Advisors Not surprising to those familiar with his previous work, Dr...
White Males Need Not Apply, USAF Ditched Merit for Diversity
By Dave Patterson, retired U.S. Air Force Pilot with over 180 combat missions in Vietnam Former Principal Deputy Under...
Are You Racist?–Movie Review of “Am I Racist?”
By Lt Col Eric M. Vogel, USAF ret, USAFA ’73 “The demand for racism far exceeds the supply.”–Thomas Sowell Matt...
A Serious Pentagon Must Hold a ‘Plucking Board’
By Forrest L. Marion, Ph.D. Retired U.S. Air Force officer and military historian On 1 September 1939 – the day Hitler...
Army’s Top Enlisted Leader Removed Diversity Consideration for Top Enlisted Roles
By Steve Beynon | Military.com The Army’s top enlisted leader has removed key guidance that required diversity to be...
Naval Academy Defends Race in Admissions
So they are racist? Here is another stunningly bizarre headline: US Naval Academy says considering race in admissions helps...
Air Force seeking those willing to DEI for their country?
By Chad Groening | American Family News The Daily Caller News Foundation has obtained documents that it says reflect the...
West Point Needs a Reset, Part 2: In Their Own Words
By Tony Lentini, USMA ’71 See West Point Needs a Reset, Part 1 On Sept. 12, Real Clear Defense published my...
Why Scott Perry, Brigadier General, ultimately resigned: the Army’s woke agenda betrayed his core values
By Morgan Phillips | Fox News After nearly four decades of military service, it was one small task that pushed Rep. Scott...
Nat Sec Watchdog Urges Army To Investigate Military Training That Called Pro-Life Orgs ‘Terrorist Groups’
By Jake Smith | The Daily Caller News Foundation A national security organization filed a request on Sept. 19 for the Army...
DEI: A Cancer on the Armed Forces
By Maj. General John Deyermond, US Army ret STARRS New Hampshire State Leader Today our military services face growing...
New Docs Shed Light On Air Force’s ‘Goal’ To Reduce ‘White Male Population’ Joining Officer Ranks
By Jake Smith | Daily Caller News Foundation The Air Force finally handed over a trove of documents pertaining to its...
DoD Schools Are a Potemkin Village
By Amy Haywood First published on Tom Klingenstein’s website with his note: Our constitutional order is being replaced...
The Navy’s Latest ‘Woke’ Stunt Is Beyond Embarrassing
Matt Walsh talks about the Navy bragging about their latest innovation: a gender-neutral submarine. Watch the Navy’s...
Reps Skewer Army Official For Saying Trainer Who Labeled Pro-Life Orgs ‘Terrorist Groups’ Wasn’t Fired
By Jake Smith | The Daily Caller News Foundation Lawmakers scolded an Army official on Thursday for suggesting a garrison...
Hearing on Army Extremism Policies
(Press Release) U.S. Representative Jim Banks (R-IN), Chairman of the Subcommittee on Military Personnel, delivered the...
Congressman Keith Self, West Point Class of 1975: Barack Obama Does Not Embody Duty, Honor, Country
By Lt Col. Keith Self, US Army ret, USMA ’75 Current Member of Congress serving the Texas 3rd District The Colonel...
West Point grad who wrote ‘Communism will Win’ under military cap is now a Ph.D. candidate at UT Austin
By Emma Dayton | Campus Reform A West Point graduate who first made headlines for his “Communism will win” message written...
What would they say?
By Edwin R. Jonas III STARRS North Dakota State Leader For more than 40 years, the Vietnam Veterans Memorial has stood as a...
Affirmative action trial against Naval Academy begins in Baltimore
By Ian Round | Maryland Daily Record A retired Air Force general testified that racial diversity mattered “not one bit” to...
‘Don’t Give Up the Ship!’ New Book from Calvert Task Group Available Today
In honor of Constitution Day, Calvert Task Group proudly announces the launch of their latest book, DON’T GIVE UP THE SHIP...
Short Takes
Various articles seen this week too short for an entire post: Wonder why they don’t have enough sailors or pilots...
Army officials to face House grilling on training slides that designated pro-life groups as terrorists
By Morgan Phillips | Fox News House Republicans will bring in Army officials to testify at a hearing next week on a training...
Identity in the Trenches: The Fatal Impact of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion on U.S. Military Readiness
By Will Thibeau, US Army veteran, Ranger Director, American Military Project Claremont Institute (NOTE: This is the full...
Admiral’s past report on diversity draws questions from GOP senator during confirmation hearing
(Stars and Stripes) Sen. Eric Schmitt on Thursday challenged President Joe Biden’s nominee to lead Southern Command over a...
U.S. Naval Academy, affirmative action foe square off at Baltimore trial
(Reuters) The group that successfully convinced the U.S. Supreme Court to bar the consideration of race in college...
Unwinding The Dangerous Politicization Currently Gripping Our Military
By Troup Hemenway and Will Thibeau, Army veteran, Ranger Recently, former President Donald Trump stated his intent to “ask...
West Point Needs a Reset
By Tony Lentini, USMA ’71 When I attended West Point back in the late ‘60s and early ‘70s, cadets used to joke that we got a...
Preserving Military Excellence through Leadership and Unity with Tom Burbage and Bruce Davey of the Calvert Task Group
Join STARRS & Stripes podcast with host CDR Al Palmer, US Navy ret, for an inspiring conversation with leaders of the...
Senator: The Left has hijacked DEI to pit Americans of different races, religions, and genders against each other
(Sen. Blackburn) Senator Marsha Blackburn believes that under the Constitution, all Americans must be treated equally. Yet...
Some Military Leaders Support a ‘Highly Partisan and Leftist Ideology’ Culture
By J.M. Phelps | Gateway Pundit Rather than focusing on building better soldiers and leaders for warfighting, some...
DEI Is Sinking the U.S. Navy
By Capt. Brent D. Sadler, USN ret, USNA ’94 Fewer Ships, Recruiting Shortfalls: DEI Has Left Our Navy Less Prepared: In the...
Demographic Diversity Is Not Our Strength
By CDR Phillip J. Keuhlen, USN ret, USNA ’71 There is an old saw in leadership circles, “You get what you inspect.” It...
The U.S. Military is in CRISIS – The culture is TRASH and no one is joining
YouTuber Nate Cornacchia, a retired Green Beret out of 1st SFG with a decade of experience in Army Special Forces and...
Don’t Give Up the Ship book: CTG President Tom Burbage on the Ike Wingate Show
Calvert Task Group President Capt. Tom Burbage, US Navy ret, USNA ’69 was interviewed on the Ike Wingate Show about...
STARRS President Interviewed on KOA Radio
STARRS President Col Ron Scott, PhD, along with Laureen Boll, state coordinator for FAIR, the Foundation against Intolerance...
Military Reform: Reversing the Decline
By Col. Gary Anderson, USMC ret Retired as Chief of Staff of the Marine Corps Warfighting Lab Served as a Special Advisor to...
‘Diversity’ Doesn’t Include Disabled Veterans Like Me
By Matthew Winans, US Army Veteran At college campuses nationwide, the newest students are starting class, but I’m not among...
APP Releases a New Documentary: “Culture War: The Deadly Consequences of a Woke War Machine”
(Press Release) American Principles Project (APP) released a new documentary titled “Culture War: The Deadly Consequences...
An Anti-Woke Agenda for the US Military
By Will Thibeau, Army Ranger veteran First published on Tom Klingenstein’s website. His Note: As observed at the outset of...
How the Department of Defense Went Woke
By Will Thibeau, Army Ranger veteran First published on Tom Klingenstein’s website. His Note: Understanding our present...
The Logic of the Woke Military
By Will Thibeau, Army Ranger veteran First published on Tom Klingenstein’s website. His Note: Perhaps more explicitly than...