The attacks of September 11 reshaped American security, but the most revealing lessons often sit inside the logistics, the improvisation, and the human decisions made in the first hours. On this episode of STARRS & Stripes podcast (watch or listen...
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Terry Adirim Under Oath: The Memo That Forced the Military Jab
Terry Adirim, MD, then acting Assistant Secretary of Defense for Health Affairs, signed a memo on Sept. 14, 2021, stating...
When “Downtown” Meant Hanoi
By Jim Reynolds | Reynolds Substack Every war develops its own language. In Vietnam, American fighter pilots had a...
Kendall Qualls: Why we were attacked on Sept. 11
By Kendall Qualls, US Army veteran President of TakeCharge STARRS Board of Advisors On the morning of Sept. 11, 2001, 19 men...
To All U.S. Air Force Academy Graduates
By L. Todd Wood, USAF vet, USAFA 1986 I’m running for the AOG Board of Directors and need your support! I’m a...
The Compliance Layer: DEI, Readiness, And The Military’s Personnel Problem
By Mark W. Castillon, US Army National Guard veteran The latest Pentagon outrage is aimed at the smallest part of the story...
Antonio Gramsci – The Most Dangerous Intellectual of the Twentieth Century
By Krzysztof Szczawinski, @Kristof_Poland on X Not the most famous. Not the most read. The most dangerous and the most...
It’s Been 25 Years Since The 9/11 Attack and I Find Myself Writing This Warning: Americans, Wake Up
By Col. Rob Maness, USAF ret STARRS Board of Advisors As I posted on X just weeks ago: Mississippi voters, and all...
Tata: Dept. of War has welcomed back 500+ warfighters and delivered $21M+ in backpay
X Post by Under Secretary of War for Personnel and Readiness Anthony J. Tata, retired US Army Brig. General, USMA 1981: Last...
Dr. Terry Adirim’s Legacy, Five Years On: The Unraveling of the Military COVID-19 Mandates and the Shot’s Illusion of Interchangeability
By J.M. Phelps | The Gateway Pundit For many service members adversely affected by the military’s 2021 COVID-19 shot...
The Learning Recession
From Major Bob ‘Von’ Liebman, USAF Ret: “This American Thinker article by Lars Moeller is the best seen to...
One Year Later: The U.S. Military Continues Quartering Charlie Kirk Assassination Celebrants
By Major Chase Spears, PhD, US Army retired “Charlie Kirk has been shot.” I was in a production studio recording podcast...
The Disingenuous Ideal of Marxist Affordability
By Lt. Col. Allen West, USA ret Executive Director of the American Constitutional Rights Union STARRS Board of Advisor “The...
Reflections on 9/11 and Iran
By Capt. Brent Ramsey, USN ret STARRS Board of Advisors It is of utmost importance to remember and reflect on the evil...
Remembering 9/11: Air Force Colonel Buzz Patterson
By Lt. Colonel Robert “Buzz”Patterson, USAF ret STARRS Board of Advisors On the morning of September 11, 2001, I...
Remembering 911: Army Colonel Allen West
Lt. Colonel Allen West, US Army retired STARRS Board of Advisors Sage Steele sat down with Colonel Allen West, combat...
Remembering 911: Aviation Week Journalist Bill Scott
By Bill Scott STARRS Board of Advisors This was from a September 2021 Aviation Week podcast where Bill was one of the people...
Remembering 911: Air Force General Richard Comer
By Major General Richard Comer, USAF retired, USAFA 1973 STARRS Ambassador Well, it happened that I was airborne when 9/11...
Remembering 911: Air Force General Christopher Walker
By Brigadier General Christopher Walker, USAF ret, USAFA 1988 STARRS Board of Advisors I was in a dentist’s chair, getting...
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Remembering 911: Army Colonel Bill Connor
By Colonel Bill Connor, USA Army retired Chairman of the STARRS Board of Advisors As we approach the 25th anniversary of the...
Remembering 911: Air Force General Gar Graham
By Major General Gar S. Graham, USAF DC (ret) STARRS Board of Advisors Twenty-five years ago I was TDY at Stone Mountain in...
Remembering 911: Air Force Colonel Ron Scott
COLORADO SPRINGS, CO, UNITED STATES, September 9, 2026 /EINPresswire.com/ — Dr. Ron Scott, president and CEO of Stand...
Remembering 911: Air Force Colonel Rob Maness
By Col. Rob Maness, USAF ret STARRS Board of Advisors On ‘Rufo & Lomez,’ Col. Rob Maness tells Christopher...
Remembering 9/11: Air Force General Rod Bishop
By Lt. General Rod Bishop, USAF ret, USAFA 1974 STARRS Chairman Emeritus of the Board of Directors Member, STARRS Board of...
Remembering 9/11: Aviation Museum Executive Al Palmer
By Commander Al Palmer, US Navy retired Former F-4 Wild Weasel Pilot during the Vietnam War STARRS Texas State Leader Host...
Remembering 9/11: Navy Captain Brent Ramsey
By Captain Brent Ramsey, US Navy, ret STARRS Board of Advisors I was at work at the Construction Battalion Center, Gulfport...
Remembering 9/11: Army General Joe Arbuckle
By Major General Joe Arbuckle, US Army retired Vice Chairman Emeritus, STARRS Board of Directors Member, STARRS Board of...
Remembering 9/11: Pentagon Advisor Dr. Lani Kass
By Lani Kass, PhD STARRS Board of Advisors I was on sabbatical at the Pentagon, working for then LTG John Abizaid, Director...
Remembering 9/11: Air Force General Paul Carlton
By Lt. General (Dr.) Paul K. Carlton, Jr , USAF (Ret.), USAFA 1969 STARRS Board of Advisors I was in the Pentagon on 9/11...
Remembering 9/11: CIA Contractor Cindy Kwitchoff
By Cynthia Kwitchoff Former CIA employee then contractor, (1989-2013) STARRS Webmaster I was working from my home office...
The Uniform Doesn’t Come With a First Amendment Waiver
By Jay Rogers Picture the scene. A U.S. Air Force major stands on the Capitol steps in his service uniform, ribbons and all...
Statement by New Acting Secretary of the Army, Adam Telle
Posted on X: I am honored to have been selected by President Trump to serve as Acting Secretary of the Army under the...
The Day Evil Came to America—and the Courage That Answered It
By Lt. Col. Darin Gaub, USA ret Twenty-five years after the attacks of September 11, America faces a dangerous temptation:...
Pentagon, HHS Investigating Whether COVID Vaccines Contributed to Military Deaths
By American Greatness News Staff The Trump administration is investigating whether COVID-19 vaccines contributed to the...
Democrats Invite Military Women To Freeze Their Eggs So They Can Go Fight Wars
By Ashley Bateman | The Federalist The military has announced plans to cover costs for sperm and egg freezing for service...
Trump Seeks SCOTUS Backing to Uphold Military Trans Ban
By Quinn Delamater | The Washington Stand President Donald Trump is asking the United States Supreme Court for its approval...
The Media Lies About The Pentagon – COL Rob Maness
CDM host L. Todd Wood, USAFA ’86, interviews Col. Rob Maness, USAF ret, member of STARRS Board of Advisors, about the...
Airman: “Something happening at the front gate of my base that is absolutely unacceptable, and frankly I’m stunned it’s been allowed to continue.”
What kind of horrible thing happened on Kirtland Air Force Base in New Mexico???? Officials at the gate have been saying to...
Space Force Spacey Wars
Note, this was written in July 2018. Goes to show the wonky wokeness has been around for some time. Bill Scott, mentioned...
The Washington Post Embarrasses Itself Trying to Embarrass Me
By Col. Kurt Schlichter, USA ret How can you trust regime media reporters to report anything right when they can’t even...
The System is What the System Does: The Anatomy of a Deep State Smear
A nothingburger “scandal” was created by the leftist legacy media in their continual desperate search for...
President Trump nominates Hung Cao to be Secretary of the Navy
Commander-in-Chief’s post on Truth Social about Acting Secretary of the Navy Capt. Hung Cao, USN ret, USNA ’96:...
Judge who axed 9/11 mastermind’s confession blamed military’s ‘conservative tendencies’ for rising ‘extremism’
By Peter Pinedo | Fox News The judge who recently threw out a confession by Khalid Sheikh Mohammed: the alleged mastermind...
Young Americans need to learn communism’s true history
And maybe everyone else needs a refresher in it. Washington Examiner Editorial Socialism is gaining ground, particularly...
Policy Brief: Assessing the Marxist-Islamist Alliance Aimed at America’s Heart
By Wade Miller, US Marine Corps infantryman, combat veteran Executive Director, Center for Renewing America The accelerating...
Staff sergeant, colonel reinstated after leaving over COVID-19 vaccine refusal
By Capt. Jennifer French | US Army News Staff Sgt. Austin Waring stood on Sabre Airfield Aug. 7 surrounded by family, fellow...
The Seven Years of History behind Seditious Six
By @DataRepublican on X What the legacy Pentagon press corps refused to cover. The Seditious Six video did not came out of...
Major Brandon Oberkamp’s Struggle Highlights Military’s Treatment of Shot Refusers
By J. M. Phelps | The Gateway Pundit Major Brandon Oberkamp’s promotion to Lieutenant Colonel was rescinded, and he received...
Don’t Schedule A Meeting Without An Ask
By Capt. Tom Burbage, USN ret, USNA ’69 President, The Calvert Task Group A wise man once said, “Don’t schedule a...
Air Force Awarded Nearly $750,000 For AI-Powered DEI Training Tool Under Biden
Besides the wokeness, it looks like USAFA was/is using AI companions instead of humans to train/instill character in cadets:...
Eighteen Years Ago
By Lt. Col. Allen West, USA ret Executive Director of the American Constitutional Rights Union STARRS Board of Advisor I am...
Transgenders and supporters more likely to be leftwing and justify political violence
Another reason not to have transgenders in the military. (Health & Human Services) The U.S. Department of Health and...
West Point sued for allegedly firing professor over climate change stance
More background on woke profs at West Point and how the academy is getting rid of wokeness. By Roger Hannigan Gilson | Times...
Military Education Needs a Strategic Makeover
Key quote: “What has been visible in recent times is the intellectual sludge left by 20 plus years of forced social...
Pentagon fires longtime publisher, editor, reporter from military newspaper Stars and Stripes
By Joseph A. Wulfsohn | Fox News The Pentagon fired the top brass at the military newspaper Stars and Stripes and one of its...
Air Force Major Charged With 10 Counts After Calling For Trump’s Impeachment, Conviction
By Derek VanBuskirk | The Daily Caller News Foundation A U.S. Air Force major has been arrested for a second time after...
Military vets train citizens on removing Marxist/Islamist networks in communities
By Emily Medeiros | The Daily Signal A group with special operations and intelligence skills and filmmaker Chris Burgard...
BOOK REVIEW “Revolution: The Birth of the Greatest Nation in the History of the World”
By Capt. Brent Ramsey, USN ret STARRS Board of Advisors Review of Revolution: The Birth of the Greatest Nation in the...
The Army Azimuth
By Gen. Christopher C. LaNeve 40th Vice Chief of Staff of the Army Since 1775, the United States Army has defended our...
USAFA Superintendent Change of Command Full Ceremony
Your Son Doesn’t Want You To Complain About His Deployment
Culture War in the Ranks: How Biden’s Executive Orders Reshaped Defense Priorities
Implementation Guidance for the Reinstatement and Reintegration of Marines Affected by the Covid-19 Vaccination Mandate
Leftwing USAFA Grad Gets Arrested Again
USecAF Lohmeier visits Tyndall AFB amid reconstruction
Former SPLC exec who testified before Congress on “white supremacy in the military” indicted and arrested for fraud
Exhausted Hope And The Bureaucratic Behemoth
Chaos at the Gates
Unconventional Warfare, Unconventional Reading
It’s a Trap! When War College Auditors are the Problem
About This “Red/Green Alliance”
Reagan understood the domestic threat
How Fear of the ‘Islamophobia’ Label Gave Islamism Room to Grow
West Point Welcomes 62nd Superintendent
The Locust Effect
US military base schools put new emphasis on Western civilization and Christianity
Airman discharged under vaccine mandate returns to guide others back
The Cognitive Weapon System: Under Secretary’s AFSA speech champions authentic leadership, Deliberate Learning
Unearthed Data Sheds Light On Military’s Transgenderism Explosion Under Biden
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Open Letters
Air Force / Air Force Academy
When Conscience Conflicts With Commission
By Lt. General Mark Hertling, US Army ret, USMA ’75 Essay written in The Bulwark REPORTS SUGGEST MAJ. JASON WATSON...
‘Captain Longo clearly has been abused’: Air Force officer wrongly accused of racism seeks to restore career
By J.M. Phelps | WorldNetDaily A top-performing Air Force officer has been relegated to staying at home after voicing...
Colonel Brandon Tellez ’01 to Succeed Brig. General Marks as Commandant, Reinforcing Warfighter Focus at the Academy
Disciplined Delusion and the Lohmeier Hearing
Status of the CRT/DEI Agenda at the Air Force Academy
Colorado Springs News Gazette Highlights STARRS Victory for Air Force Academy Soccer Players
Army / West Point
Pentagon weighs eliminating civilian tenure at military academies and reviewing all curriculum, draft memo says
By James LaPorta, Eleanor Watson | CBS News The Department of War is considering its most sweeping remake of military higher...
How CRT made its way into military academies
Lt Gen Rod Bishop, STARRS President and BOD Chairman, appeared on Debbie Georgatos’ Vimeo program America, Can We Talk? Gen...
Navy / Naval Academy
Naval Academy will not remove DEI-related materials from library
This doesn’t make sense By James Matheson | Baltimore Sun The U.S. Naval Academy will not be forced to remove...
US Navy Coming in 7,000 Sailors Short of 2023 Recruiting Goal
The U.S. Navy expects to be 7,000 new sailors short of its annual recruiting goal when the fiscal year ends this month. At a...
CG/Coast Guard Academy
The Problem Isn’t that DEI Brings Us Women, The Problem Is that It Brings Us the Wrong Women
Woke Admiral Refuses to Leave Government Home
U.S. Rep Greg Steube Secures U.S. Coast Guard Guarantee to Readmit Wrongfully Disenrolled, Unvaccinated Cadets
Affirmative Action Must End at Military-Service Academies
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