By Capt. Brent Ramsey, USN ret STARRS Board of Advisors The Republic of Korea (ROK), more commonly called South Korea, and...
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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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Good Navy News
By Capt. Brent Ramsey, USN ret STARRS Board of Advisors The good news is a combination of decisions of the Trump...
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...
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...
Manhattan Project for Ships
By Capt. Brent Ramsey, USN ret STARRS Board of Advisors Shipbuilding, Maintenance, and Fleet Reactivation Strategy...
Operation Rescue and Restore
By Capt. Brent Ramsey, USN ret STARRS Board of Advisors With the election of President Donald Trump and his inauguration in...
The Status of the Navy: Part III
By Capt. Brent Ramsey, USN ret STARRS Board of Advisors On the eve of World War II, our political leaders had the foresight...
The Status of the Navy: Part II
By Capt. Brent Ramsey, USN ret STARRS Board of Advisors If the U.S. Navy is to retain its status as the premier fleet in the...
The Status of the Navy: Part I
By Capt. Brent Ramsey, USN ret STARRS Board of Advisors “A good Navy is not a provocation to war. It is the surest guaranty...
A Tribute to CDR Phillip Keuhlen, USN (Retired)
By Capt. Brent Ramsey, USN ret STARRS Board of Advisors Calvert Task Group Board of Directors It is with extreme sadness it...
US NAVY IN EXTREMIS! Facing China’s Growing Maritime Threat with Capt. Brent Ramsey, USN ret.
America faces a maritime crisis that few citizens recognize but that threatens our national security at its core. In this...
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...
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...
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...
Reviewing ‘We All Wear Green, We All Bleed Red’
By Capt. Brent Ramsey, USN ret STARRS Board of Advisors Larry Purdy has written a lengthy article titled “We All Wear Green...
China’s Financial Strategies to Undermine America
By Capt. Brent Ramsey, US Navy ret STARRS Board of Advisors China owns a lot of U.S. debt. A Congressional Research Service...
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...
BOOK REVIEW: “Social Justice Fallacies” by Thomas Sowell
By Capt. Brent Ramsey, US Navy ret STARRS Board of Advisors Dr. Thomas Sowell is a national treasure. The reason most people...
BOOK REVIEW: The Perilous Fight by Dr. Ben Carson
By Capt. Brent Ramsey, USN ret STARRS Board of Advisors The Perilous Fight: Overcoming Our Culture’s War on the...
A Navy in Extremis
By Capt. Brent Ramsey, USN ret STARRS Board of Advisors Since 2017, I have written about the decline of the U.S. Navy. We...
Politics or People: What Does the Navy Value?
By Capt. Brent Ramsey, USN ret STARRS Board of Advisors Board Member, Calvert Task Group From Military.com: “According to...
U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission
By Capt. Brent Ramsey, US Navy, ret STARRS Board of Advisors To its lasting credit, the Congress in 2000 was ahead of its...
The Late, Great United States of America
By Capt. Brent Ramsey, US Navy ret STARRS Board of Advisors All the signs were there, but most Americans did not notice them...
DOD Diversity Committee Shuns Sunlight
By Capt. Brent Ramsey, USN ret STARRS Board of Advisors In an earlier article, Patriot Post readers were introduced to...
Navy Leadership Failures
By Capt. Brent Ramsey, US Navy ret STARRS Board of Advisors In recent years, there have been incidents, accidents, and...
A Navy in Decline
By Capt. Brent Ramsey, USN ret STARRS Board of Advisors In 1890, Alfred Thayer Mahan, a renowned naval strategist, published...