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What STARRS Accomplished in 2025 Because of You

2025 was quite a year with a new Administration and Pentagon leadership that had the same aims as STARRS: eliminate the...

STARRS and Remarks at the National Prayer Breakfast

The Commander-in-Chief, President Trump, gave remarks at the National Prayer Breakfast (see video below) and said some of...

Latest News on the CRT/DEI/Woke Agenda and the Military

Making the War Colleges Great Again

By ‘Cynical Publius’ (@CynicalPublius on X) Retired US Army Colonel As President Donald Trump and Secretary of...

U.S. Transportation Secretary Doubles Down on Purging DEI From Our Skies, Calls on Airlines to Affirm Pilot Hiring Is Merit Based

(DOT Press Release) U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean P. Duffy announced today the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is...

Military academies now accept Classical Learning Test as alternative to ‘woke’ AP exams

By Micaiah Bilger | The College Fix More university admissions offices are now accepting an alternative to the SAT and ACT...

Grand Jury Refuses To Indict ‘Seditious Six’ Democrats Over ‘Illegal Orders’ Video

By Ashley Brasfield | The Daily Caller News Foundation A D.C. grand jury declined to indict six Democratic lawmakers over a...

The Day the Fighting Cocks Died: How West Point Traded the Warrior Ethos for Political Safety

By Lt. Col. David T. Cloft, USA ret, USMA ’97 | AFNN There was a time when a group of young men at the United States...

Strengthening America’s Military with Amber Smith

By Col. Rob Maness, USAF ret, STARRS Board of Advisors interviews Amber Smith, STARRS Board of Advisors The US military has...

The American Left Is a Cult. I Have Receipts.

By Mike Bski, USA ret 23-year Army Combat Medic How a Science Teacher, Combat Medic, and Father of Four Accidentally...

House Passes Bill to Study VMI’s Academics, Military Training, and Diversity Efforts

By Abbie Coleman | News 10 House Bill 1377, sponsored by Delegate Dan Helmer (D–10), cleared the House with a 71–24 vote...

It’s Time to Purge the Poison from All Professional Military Education

By Col. Rob Maness, USAF ret STARRS Board of Advisors America’s military is the greatest fighting force in history because...

Interview with Maj. General Bentley Rayburn, STARRS Chairman of the Board

A fighter pilot’s logbook tells one story; the culture that shaped the pilot tells the rest. STARRS & Stripes host CDR...

Cultural War Briefing: STARRS Presentation of “American Creed Threatened by Radical Indoctrination”

STARRS leaders Major General Joe Arbuckle, US Army retired, and Colonel Ron Scott, PhD, US Air Force retired, give an...

‘Good Riddance’: War Dept. Cuts Ties with Ivy League ‘Wokesters’

By S.A. McCarthy | Washington Stand The U.S. military is cutting ties with one of the nation’s oldest and most prestigious...

Only Hegseth can save storied Virginia Military Institute from woke state lawmakers

By David Marcus | Fox News Opinion The last time that Virginia Military Institute was nearly destroyed was when Union troops...

Chief of Naval Operations Unveils “Fighting Instructions” at U.S. Naval War College

(US NAVY) The Navy’s 34th Chief of Naval Operations, Adm. Daryl Caudle, today released the United States Navy Fighting...

Chairman Pfluger Hosts Secretary of the Air Force at USAFA Board of Visitors Meeting in DC

(Press Release) United States Air Force Academy (USAFA) Board of Visitors (BOV) Chairman August Pfluger (TX-11) convened the...

Leadership Lesson for the Day (How to Defeat your Enemy or Countering Saul Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals)

By Lt. General Michael Flynn, USA ret Former Director, Defense Intelligence Agency In my time studying our enemies, there...

The Left’s Attack On VMI For Lack Of Wokeness Must End

By Col. Bill Conner, Esq., USA ret, The Citadel ’90 Chairman, STARRS Board of Advisors As happened with Joe Biden in 2020...

America Fractured: How the Obama Doctrine Fueled Division — and What Must Be Done

By Col. Jamie Williamson, USA ret | Proud American Studios I spent my career in U.S. Army Special Forces operating in...

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War Department Cuts Ties With Harvard University

By C. Todd Lopez | Pentagon News Secretary of War Pete Hegseth today announced the War Department would sever its academic...

Only a Conservative Military is Capable of Defending the United States

By Major Chase Spears, PhD, USA ret Last month a federal circuit court panel in Washington, D.C. upheld the Department of...

The attacks on Border Patrol and ICE agents copy and expand on the abuse heaped on Vietnam veterans

By John Lucas, USMA ’69 Army Ranger and Special Forces Green Beret Served with the 1st Calvary Division in Vietnam We all...

General Bishop: “Disappointed in how political our country has become”

By Lt. General Rod Bishop, USAF ret, USAFA 1974 STARRS Chairman Emeritus Given the controversy in the USAFA Association of...

The Left will go after the institution that will resist them the least, for the most impact: The Military

By Commander Salamander | CDR Salamander Substack Everyone and every institution has a role to play at a particular time and...

Back to Warfighting: The Hegseth Doctrine Takes Shape

By Victoria Manning | Restoration News Peace through strength is back, and DEI is on life support. In just his first year...

DEI’s ‘Divisive Ideology is Still Very Much Present, Just Lying in Wait’ for the Military

By J.M. Phelps | Gateway Pundit An insider, possibly a holdover from the Biden administration, might be pressuring...

Secretary Troy Meink announces Air Force Academy superintendent to depart

By Mary Shinn | Colorado Springs Gazette Secretary of the Air Force Troy Meink urged Air Force Academy leaders Thursday to...

USAFA Board of Visitors Meeting Video – February 5, 2026

The US Air Force Academy Board of Visitors held a meeting on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC and via Zoom with USAFA staff at...

An Insurrection Similar to 2020 We Cannot Lose

By Col. Bill Conner, Esq., USA ret, The Citadel ’90 Chairman, STARRS Board of Advisors In the summer of 2020, nationwide...

VMI cadets fight back as Virginia Democrats threaten to close historic military college

By Preston Mizell | Fox News Cadets at the Virginia Military Institute went to bat for the historic military college after...

Under Secretary of the Air Force visits Indo-Pacific to engage with Airmen, allies

(US Air Force) Under Secretary of the Air Force Matt Lohmeier arrived at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam Jan. 24 to kick off...

Vax Reinstatements, Remedies and After-Action Review Update by SecWarP&R Anthony Tata

The Under Secretary of War for Personnel & Readiness, retired Army Brig. General Anthony Tata, USMA ’81, made a...

FOIA Uncovered: DEI and The JAG Agenda

On retired Army intelligence officer Sam Shoemate’s podcast, he interviews Mason Weiss, a former JAG Officer. Weiss...

How TikTok’s Algorithm Poisoned the Minds of Young, Liberal Women

Everyone is writing stories trying to figure out why liberal women have become increasingly unhinged lunatics. All seem to...

Courage in the Ranks: Interview with Sam Shoemate

Chase Spears, PhD, a retired Army PAO, interviews retired Army intelligence officer Sam Shoemate, creator of Terminal CWO...

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...

Why America’s Colleges Are Far More Fragile Than They Appear

ROTC at colleges produce the largest source of military officers. By Greg Salsbury, PhD STARRS Board of Advisors and John...

USecAF Lohmeier visits Osan Air Base

(US Air Force) Under Secretary of the Air Force Matthew Lohmeier visited Osan Air Base, Republic of Korea, Jan. 30, 2026...

The Reinstatement of Troops Impacted by Tyrannical COVID Policies is Starting to Seem Like a Sham to Many

By J.M. Phelps | Gateway Pundit More than a year ago, on January 27, President Donald Trump enacted an Executive Order to...

DOW threatens ‘extraordinary’ action if Dems put Virginia Military Institute fully under VA control

By Natalia Mittelstadt | Just the News The War Department threatened to take “extraordinary measures” if...

Scouting America ‘on the clock’ to roll back DEI, War Dept says

By Stephen Sorace | Fox News The Department of War is moving to overhaul its partnership with Scouting America, saying the...

How The Military Gave A Homeless Lesbian’s ‘Minority Contracting’ Firm $19 Million

By Luke Rosiak | The Daily Wire Rhonda Valles is an aspiring California musician who once played in a band with her ex...

A Quarter Of ‘Minority Contracting’ Firms Banned After Refusing Anti-Fraud Check

More on the infamous 8(a) Program (as known in the defense industry as “Eskimo Contracts”) that Secretary...

Lloyd Austin’s COVID Tyranny Continues As Shadow Policy at the Department of War

By Major Chase Spears, PhD, USA ret Among Morton Blackwell’s laws of the public policy process is rule 26: Personnel is...

A nation cannot survive treason from within

By Col. Ron Scott, PhD, USAF ret, USAFA ’73 STARRS President & CEO Earlier this week, the spouse of a VERY high...

Signs of a Marxist Uprising

‘Made in America’ author Xi Van Fleet and ‘The Invisible Coup’ author Peter Schweizer discuss how Marxist/Maoist political...

BOOK REVIEW | The Truth: Stranger—and More Dangerous—Than Fiction

By Lt. Col. Eric Vogel, USAF ret, USAFA ’73 STARRS Ambassador and Connecticut State Leader Hey, I’m no f—ing criminal...

USAFA’s New Dean of the Faculty: Col. James Valpiani ’04

(USAFA Press Release) The Department of the Air Force has named Col. James M. Valpiani as the institution’s next Dean of the...

STARRS Releases Town Hall video: ‘The Threat of the Red-Green Axis’

COLORADO SPRINGS, CO, UNITED STATES, January 27, 2026 /EINPresswire.com/ — STARRS (Stand Together Against Racism and...

The Pentagon right to reassess women’s effectiveness in ground combat roles

By Michelle Thibeau, USMA ’14, served in Special Operations Command in Afghanistan and Amber Smith, Former Deputy...

Military intelligence officers warn: Minneapolis is an organized insurgency

By Eric Schwalm, Retired Green Beret (CW4), @Schwalm5132 As a former Special Forces Warrant Officer with multiple rotations...

Virginia Democrats blasted for threatening historic military college VMI with funding threat over DEI concerns

By Preston Mizell | Fox News Virginia Democrats in the state’s House of Delegates introduced a resolution on Tuesday that...

Navy Under Secretary Hung Cao says personnel discharged over vaccine mandate were ‘failed’

By Michael Sinkewicz | Fox News The Department of the Navy issued an apology letter Friday to former military personnel...

Report finds Air Force Academy should improve due process for those facing discipline

By Mary Shinn | Colorado Springs News Gazette The Air Force Academy does not provide consistent access to open hearings or...

Military Deep State and The Price of Speaking Out – With Brig Gen Chris Sage

On retired Army intelligence officer Sam Shoemate’s new podcast, he interviews Brigadier General Chris Sage, a...

Standing in Honor Against Tyranny

Retired Army Major PAO Dr. Chase Spears welcomes Air Force Reserve Major Kim Bitter, a 20-year veteran flight nurse...

DOW: 365 Days of Peace Through Strength

The Department of War has made an impressive multimedia webpage of the significant activities and accomplishments of the...

Dept of War 2026 National Defense Strategy

The Department of War has released its 2026 National Defense Strategy (pdf) From the opening memo from SecWar Hegseth: For...

Why the US Army must focus on winning the first battle of the next war

By Secretary of the U.S. Army Daniel P. Driscoll Cold, calculating, and ruthless adversaries do not hesitate. Hot, searing...

How The Biden Admin Tried To Keep The VA Woke After It Left Town

Grokipedia profiles STARRS Chairman Bentley Rayburn

Close Woke War Colleges?

MacArthur Society Commanders Call: The Classic Learning Test and West Point

USMA Board of Visitors Meeting Feb 23, 2026 in Washington, DC

STARRS Announces New Appointments to the Board of Directors and Advisory Board

It was just yesterday…

The Democrats’ Coup 2.0 Agenda Demands Accountability

Our Service Academies Are Infected With Marxism

Air Force Blocks Retirement of Exemplary Officer and Discharges Her Over Lawful Objections to Vaccines

Pagans in the Military Chapels

A Salute to Military Wives

Athletics Exception To Merit-Based Admissions Should Be Removed

Bad News and Good News for Taiwan

Lester Gabriel interviewed on Voices of Freedom

Should the Military Mandate Vaccines?

VMI targeted by Virginia’s new radical leftist government

Paganism Must Be Rooted Out of the Military

Fired Professor Exposes DEI Fraud

DoD Restoring America’s Fighting Force Task Force (RAFF-TF) – Initial Report to the Secretary of Defense

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STARRS Podcasts

Woke Policies are Destroying the Military from the Inside Out

STARRS recently held a Joint Town Hall with the MacArthur Society of West Point Graduates and the Calvert Task Group. The...

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...

Upholding the Warrior Ethos in the Military: Interview with MOH Recipient Drew Dix

STARRS & Stripes host CDR Al Palmer, USN ret interviews retired Army Special Forces Major Drew Dix, Medal of Honor...

Flying the F-14 Tomcat: Lessons in Leadership and Camaraderie with Navy Commander Dave Baranek

Ever wonder what it takes to fly one of the Navy’s most iconic jets? Join STARRS & Stripes podcast with host CDR...

Interview with Charles Love

Dr. Ron Scott, STARRS VP and Board of Directors Vice-Chairman, interviews Charles Love. Mr. Love is the Executive Director...

Interview with Author Jason Hill, PhD on CRT

“Intellectuals” podcast host Dr. Ron Scott speaks with Dr. Jason D. Hill, PhD., DePaul University Philosophy Professor, one...

Interview with retired Air Force Colonel and author Tracey Meck

STARRS President, Dr Ron Scott interviews retired Air Force Colonel and author Tracey Meck (STARRS VP Digital Media, USAFA...

Major General Joe Arbuckle on Meritocracy, Accountability and Military Reform

What does it take to rise from a private to a Major General in the U.S. Army? Major General Joe Arbuckle, US Army ret, joins...

Exposing DEI: Understanding the Strategy Behind Institutional Indoctrination

A lot of important, eye-opening information in STARRS July Town Hall with guest speaker Dr. Stanley Ridgley, a former Army...

DEI’s Impact on Military Unity, Readiness and Historical Lessons for Today

Are our military forces less prepared today than they were after World War II? Join us as Commander Al Palmer, USN ret, and...

STARRS Town Hall with Guest Speaker Rick Addante: DEI is NOT Dead at the Department of War

At a STARRS Town Hall held on 18 September 2025, Dr. Rick Adante, a former tenured professor, reveals how universities...

Interview with LTC Darin Gaub (USA, Ret) Of Restore Liberty

Dr. Ron Scott speaks with LTC (USA, Ret) Darin Gaub, the executive director of Restore-Liberty.org.

Interview With Elaine Donnelly, Center For Military Readiness

STARRS Vice President and Board of Directors Vice-Chair, Dr. Ron Scott interviewed Elaine Donnelly, from the Center for...

A Conversation with USAF Brigadier General Christopher “Mookie” Walker

In this episode of STARRS & Stripes, host CDR Al Palmer, USN ret, talks with retired Air Force Brigadier General...

Left-Wing Brainwashing in the Military and Academia with Dr. Stanley Ridgley and Dr. Ron Scott

This important episode of STARRS & Stripes looks at the radical and dangerous left-wing ideological influences and...

The Constitution Comes First: How Our Military Legal System Lost Its Way – Judge Bruce Tucker Smith

On this episode of STARRS & Stripes, host Al Palmer talks with Judge Bruce Tucker Smith, a 21-year veteran JAG officer...

Interview With Dr. Carol Swain

Dr. Ron Scott interviews Dr. Carol Swain. Dr. Swain is a former tenured professor of political science at both Princeton...

Mike Rose: Fighting for Justice and Integrity in the Military and Service Academies

In this episode of STARRS & Stripes, prepare to engage with a riveting conversation on the intricate landscape of...

Interview with Matthew Lohmeier

Air Force Academy graduate and former US Space Force Lt Col Matthew Lohmeier was relieved of his squadron command for...

Interview with Dr. Zuhdi Jasser

Dr. Ron Scott hosted an interview with Dr. Zuhdi Jasser on CD Media’s series, “The Intellectuals.” Dr. Jasser is a first...

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...

Journey to Chief: Rod McKinley on Military Service, Standards, Families and Leadership Values

STARRS & Stripes host CDR Al Palmer, USN ret, interviews STARRS Board of Directors member Rodney McKinley, who served as...

Shifts in Military Culture: Insights from Lt General Rod Bishop

Is the U.S. military compromising its unity and readiness for the sake of progressive ideologies? Join STARRS & Stripes...

Interview with Author Rebecca Friedrichs on the Far Left Control of our Schools

Dr. Ron Scott, Col, USAF (Ret), STARRS Board of Directors Vice Chairman, interviews Rebecca Friedrichs, author of Standing...

Are the Motivations to Serve Missing in Today’s Military? A Conversation with Three Leaders

STARRS & Stripes Host CDR Al Palmer, USN ret, was joined by the presidents of three veterans organizations who are...

What it’s REALLY like living in a Communist country under Marxist ideology

A voice that lived through Marxism can strip away illusions in seconds. STARRS & Stripes host Commander Al Palmer, USN...

Reviving Warfighter Culture by Removing Divisive DEI – With Brig. General Chris Petty, USA ret

In this episode of STARRS & Stripes, host CDR Al Palmer, USN ret, interviews STARRS Board of Directors member retired...

Cognitive Diversity and Constitutional Values in Today’s Military: A Conversation with Navy Veterans from the Calvert Task Group

STARRS & Stripes host Commander Al Palmer, USN ret, leads a thought-provoking discussion that challenges current...

Interview with Kendall Qualls

Intellectuals Host Ron Scott talks with Kendall Qualls about the problems facing the republic. “We will be victorious...

From USAFA to Air Force Leader: Discipline, Mentorship, and Duty with Colonel Ron Scott

STARRS & STRIPES Interviews: Meet STARRS President and CEO Col. Ron Scott, PhD, USAF ret, USAFA ’73 — his...

What STARRS Accomplished in 2024 Because of You

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Air Force / Air Force Academy

Tuberville’s proposal for academy athletes to go pro undermines duty

By Lt. Col. Ken Segelhorst, USA ret. Sen. Tommy Tuberville recently said he would pursue new rules in this year’s National...

Congressman reveals after F-16 ride why Trump’s leadership is already paying off for military

By Andrew Mark Miller | Fox News Fox News Digital spoke to GOP Rep. Abe Hamadeh about the state of the U.S. military after...

Conscientious Objector USAFA ’23 Grad has to pay back $150K

DEI in military academies is ‘corrosive’ to national defense

Biden Administration Orders Ideological Purge Of U.S. Military Academies

Air Force Backtracks on Banning Personal Pronouns from Email Signatures because of NDAA

Army / West Point

Your Mother Wears Combat Boots

By William Thibeau | Claremont Institute The American military is widely seen as the last bastion of institutional...

The President Dismisses Board of Visitors for Service Academies

This morning, President Trump posted on his social media his plans for the Board of Visitors of the service academies while...