By Capt. Brent Ramsey, US Navy, ret Conservatives understand DEI as the practice of critical race theory (CRT). CRT derives...
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What Is DACODAI?
By Capt. Brent Ramsey, US Navy, ret The Defense Advisory Committee on Diversity and Inclusion (DACODAI) was formed in 2022...
Sports and the Military
By Capt. Brent Ramsey, US Navy ret STARRS Board of Advisors The largest U.S. sports attract 200+ million fans, generating...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Diversity, Equity And Inclusion or Shipmate…You Can’t Have Both!
By Capt. Brent Ramsey, USN ret STARRS Board of Advisors According to widely accepted research including that of the military...
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)...
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...
Our Navy is “in extremis,” a nautical expression that indicates imminent danger
By Capt. Brent Ramsey, US Navy, ret “Now Hear This” is the classic alert in the Navy that something important for all hands...
Politics and the CNO Selection
By retired US Navy Capt. Brent Ramsey, Capt. Charles T. Burbage and LDCR Bruce Davey True to form in his administration...
The Navy and Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI)
By Capt. Brent Ramsey, USN ret The Navy is all in for DEI. At the Navy website if one clicks on “who we are,” one of the...
There is no justification for the Navy’s DEI push
By Capt. Brent Ramsey, USN ret The Constitution is the supreme law of the land. The oath that I took upon commissioning was...
BOOK REVIEW: Defending the Constitution Behind Enemy Lines
By Capt. Brent Ramsey, USN ret Dear Shipmates, Friends, and Colleagues, “Now Hear This!” is very familiar to all...
The Navy’s Misplaced Priorities Versus Core Navy Priorities
By Capt. Brent Ramsey, USN ret A conflict with China is likely in the near term and fundamentally that conflict will be...
Who Will be the next Chief of Naval Operations?
By Captain Brent Ramsey, USN, ret Last September, the Navy promoted and installed a new Vice Chief of Naval Operations. ...
Our military is not ready to fight the PRC
By Brent Ramsey, USN Captain (ret) STARRS Member We are at war but most Americans are blissfully unaware. Folks are busy...
Liars are promoting false history for a political agenda to fundamentally change America
By Brent Ramsey, retired USN Captain STARRS Member Today telling the truth has largely disappeared from public discourse...
A Sailor’s Reflections on Race and the Navy
By Brent Ramsey, Captain, USN, Ret I have previously explained the concept of “shipmate” through the recounting of the Navy...
The United States: Most Racist Nation Ever?
By Brent Ramsey, Capt USN, ret and Michael Pefley, Col, USAF, ret STARRS Officers Those that allege the U.S. is a racist...
BOOK REVIEW: Standing Up to Goliath
Review by Brent Ramsey This book, Standing Up to Goliath: Battling State and National Teachers’ Unions for the Heart...
BOOK REVIEW: A Dubious Expediency: How Race Preferences Damage Higher Education
Book Review Intro by STARRS Director At Large/Public Information Officer Brent Ramsey An Eye-opening book that explains in...
BOOK REVIEW: What Do White Americans Owe Black People: Racial Justice in the Age of Post-Oppression
Review by Brent Ramsey Jason D. Hill is a professor of philosophy and the author of five books: These include, What Do White...
BOOK REVIEW: Discrimination and Disparities
Review by Brent Ramsey Background: Dr. Thomas Sowell is the Rose and Milton Friedman Senior Fellow on Public Policy at the...
How ‘Social Justice’ is Killing the Military
By Capt. Brent Ramsey, USN (Ret), STARRS Director at Large Col. Michael D. Pefley, USAF (Ret), VP of Communications for...
How Implementing Diversity, Equity and Inclusion will Harm Readiness in the Armed Forces and Fail to Solve Anything
By Brent Ramsey, STARRS Director at Large, CAPT, USN (Ret) The Department of Defense is doggedly implementing the policies...
BOOK REVIEW: Black Rednecks & White Liberals
Book Review by Brent Ramsey, STARRS Director at Large Black Rednecks and White Liberals by national treasure Dr. Thomas...
BOOK REVIEW: Hate Crime Hoax: How the Left is Selling a Fake Race War
Review by STARRS Member Brent Ramsey Dozens of hate crime hoaxes are described in Dr. Reilly’s fascinating book. Of 3500...