By Lt. General Rod Bishop, USAF ret, USAFA ’74 STARRS Chairman of the Board From part of an email sent out by General...
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Stop talking past one another on the topic of diversity and inclusion
Our Service Academies Must Discard Race-Based Admissions
By Lawrence Purdy, USNA ’68 Eliminating racial discrimination means eliminating all of it… [T]he Equal Protection Clause …...
West Point Grad: Diversity chief who espoused anti-American ‘Marxist dogma’ will ‘destroy the State Department’
USMA 1986 grad Mike Pompeo (#1 in his class) on the State Department–which represents America to the...
USAA Shuts Down Bank Account of Trump Lawyer
USAA increasingly getting even more politically partisan and left-wing. See our articles on USAA here. Upset about USAA...
Senator: Service Members are Disgruntled About DEI
(Press Release) U.S. Senator Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) questioned Secretary of the Army Christine Wormuth and Chief of Staff...
Senator to SECAF: Fire all DEI positions in the Air Force, every single one!
At a recent hearing, Senator Schmitt told the Secretary of the Air Force DIE is divisive and cultural Marxism, and that to...
CMR Statement to DoD: Reassess and Revoke Harmful DEI Policies
By Elaine Donnelly President, Center for Military Readiness The Center for Military Readiness (CMR) has submitted a formal...
Congressman: “Even as Americans have pushed back, the DOD continues its focus on DEI”
“The backlash is real.” (Press Release) U.S. Representative Jim Banks (R-IN), Chairman of the Military Personnel...
SecArmy Can’t Explain Why Race Should Be A Factor In Recruiting
By Micaela Burrow | The Daily Caller News Foundation Secretary of the Army Christine Wormuth could not explain in a hearing...
Mandatory DEI Statements Are Ideological Pledges of Allegiance. Time to Abandon Them.
Harvard Professor: “By overreaching, by resorting to compulsion, by forcing people to toe a political line, by...
Pentagon’s Austin pressed on whether DEI hiring freeze has harmed national security
By Cami Mondeaux | Washington Examiner A congressman is pressing the Biden administration to explain how the creation of...
Trans military chaplain suspended over alleged sexual groping comment
Weirdness from up north in the Canadian military: A military chaplain man who thinks he’s a woman wanted to group...
Ridding America of CRT/DEI: Target the Budget
By Richard Kline, USMA 1967 Served in the US Air Force, Senior Executive Service in the govt The battle to rid America of...
West Point ’64 grad says ‘Duty, Honor, Country’ saved him and his soldiers in Vietnam
By Dan Chalk | Midland Daily News In the view of retired U.S. Army Captain Michael Miller of Midland, the late Gen...
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Open Letter to Classmates, II
By Col. Ron Scott, PhD USAF ret, USAFA ’73 STARRS President Follow up to Open Letter to Flag Officer Classmates In an...
Biden Is Building A Military Based On DEI And Wokeness — We Need Merit And Preparedness
By Will Thibeau, Army veteran | The Daily Caller News Foundation The military is rightly understood as an apolitical...
Veterans Speak Out Against Military’s DEI Advisory Group
By J.M. Phelps | Epoch Times Veteran advocates are speaking out against a group of civilian leaders that provides the...
Our Time To Choose: The Institution or The Constitution
On the Rob Maness Show, interview with Commander Rob Green and Vice Admiral William “Dean” Lee, USCG ret: Description: The...
Where is the Warrior Ethos?
By Col. Michael J. Martini, USAF In the earlier part of my 23-year Air Force journey there was an emphasis on the Warrior...
DACODAI Public Meeting: 2-3 May 2024
The SECDEF’s senior DEI advisory committee (DACODAI) will be holding a public meeting at the beginning of May in...
Congressman Demands Pentagon Hand Over Stats That Could Debunk COVID-19 Vax Argument
By Micaela Burrow | The Daily Caller News Foundation Rep. Jim Banks of Indiana demanded the Pentagon give updated data on...
Pentagon Won’t Respond To New Research Casting Doubt On Studies Supporting Military’s DEI Push
By Micaela Burrow | The Daily Caller News Foundation The Pentagon failed to respond to questions about a peer-reviewed...
Gender and Resilience Wargame hosted at NATO HQ
What?? At first this looked like a headline from the Babylon Bee, but no, it’s actually from NATO, yikes. Oh the days...
Short Takes, Part 1
News and articles too short for a post or a bit out of our military lane: In a DOD news article interview with the Director...
Stop Debating on the Left’s Terms!
By Christopher Skeet, former US Marine | PJ Media Whoever controls the language of the debate controls the debate...
Flag Officers 4 America Summary of Letters
They warned and predicted all that’s happened. From Flag Officers 4 America, retired U.S. Generals and Admirals...
Around the Naval Academy
The U.S. Naval Academy hosted all the Supes at the annual Conference of Service Academy Superintendents (COSAS) with tours...
30-Year Naval Academy Teacher Details Depth Of DEI Rot In America’s Military Institutions
By Shawn Fleetwood | The Federalist It’s no secret the Biden administration has “reimagined” the U.S. military into a left...
Pete Hegseth’s ‘The War on Warriors’ examines how the military was ‘manipulated into going woke’ by the left
Pete Hegseth’s latest book, “The War on Warriors,” was a passion project for the Fox News host who says the Army...
Analyzing the Decline: How ‘Woke’ Trend is Taking Military Recruitment to Historic Lows
A political scientist is blaming the unprecedented shortage in military recruitment in the government’s decision to turn...
New Book–“Earthquake”: Brig. Gen. Robert Titus, Fighter Pilot
Bill Scott, former Bureau Chief for Aviation Week, has written a new book about Air Force fighter pilot Brigadier General...
STARRS President Ron Scott interviewed on Voice of Freedom
STARRS President Ron Scott was interviewed on the Lee Elci – The Voice of Freedom radio show, 94.9 talk radio in Connecticut...
The Playbook and its Players
By Scott McQuarrie, USMA ’72 Leader Quality Matters Who would continue DEI training/indoctrination when the majority of the...
Who Will Lead?
By Scott McQuarrie, USMA ’72 President, Veterans for Fairness and Merit If we fail to reverse our present course, our...
An insider explains what has gone disastrously wrong with Boeing
By Chris Rufo | City Journal Boeing is—or was—a great company. From its manufacturing plants in Seattle, it produced the...
NextGen Marxism: What It Is and How to Combat It
(Daily Signal) What has happened to America? How did it become a land where teachers tell students they may have been born...
Truth and Myths About The Vietnam War
The Atlanta Vietnam Veterans Business Association Foundation is proud to present a new 47-minute documentary film, entitled...
House Republicans urges Secretary of Defense to Address Left-Wing Extremism in the Military
(Press Release) Today, Congressman Derrick Van Orden (WI-03) sent a letter to Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin requesting...
The Elite 1 Percent Behind the Cultural Civil War: The State is god
“Rasmussen’s identification of the elite 1 percent begins to explain the depth of the tension between most Americans...
Pentagon Used Debunked McKinsey Studies To Justify DEI In The Military
By Spencer Lindquist | Daily Wire The Department of Defense leaned on debunked McKinsey and Company studies touting the...
The Failure of DEI in the U.S. Military
By Gary Beatty, Vietnam War Veteran The United States of America, as a political entity, came into existence in 1787. For...
New Study Shows McKinsey’s Studies Promoting DEI Profitability Were Garbage
Yet the Navy used it as justification for DEI in their Task Force One report By Tristan Justice | The Federalist...
Correcting The Air Force Academy’s Accountability And Transparency Problems
By Scott Sturman, USAFA ’72 Who in the profession of arms possess the requisite courage to storm the beaches of...
Open Letter to Flag Officer Classmates
By Col. Ron Scott, PhD, USAF ret, USAFA ’73 STARRS President and CEO Dear Esteemed Flag Officer Classmates, I hope...
If ‘Diversity Is Our Strength,’ Why Is Our Military So Weak?
By Elaine Donnelly President, Center for Military Readiness STARRS Board of Advisors Our military is in trouble. Chronic...
Oppenheimer and The Manchurian Candidate
By Capt. Tom Burbage, US Navy ret, USNA ’69 Hollywood is often a great escape from the realities of life. Sometimes...
Military chaplains appeal to Supreme Court over COVID-19 policies that forced out religious objectors
A group of military chaplains is urging the Supreme Court to stop the Department of Defense from enforcing policies that it...
STARRS Announces Appointment of New Board of Advisors Member Dr. Lani Kass
Stand Together Against Racism and Radicalism in the Services, Inc. (STARRS) announced today that Dr. Lani Kass has been...
Senator continues to demand answers on DOD abortion policy usage
(Press Release) The Biden administration has stated that the abortion travel regulations would have a significant effect on...
VMI’s Elephant in the Room
Many of the experiences of cadets at USAFA (as seen in this recent post “USAFA Cadet: “I came here to be mentally and...
Everything is Wonderful at West Point
By pyrene, a USMA grad On 11 March 2024, the Superintendent of the United States Military Academy at West Point, NY sent a...
What exactly are “Army Values?”
By Capt. Gene Thomas Gomulka, US Navy ret In 1992, while serving as the Deputy Chaplain of the U.S. Marine Corps, I was...
USAFA Cadet: “I came here to be mentally and physically challenged, not be constantly told “I’m the victim”
Recent post on Service Academy Forum by a USAFA Cadet: “Disclaimer: This might not represent the views of the Cadet...
VMI Board of Visitors struggles with politics and free speech
The importance of attending Board of Visitors meetings: By Cody Bartmann and The Cadet staff | The VMI Cadet The Cadet...
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Air Force / Air Force Academy
What the Secretary of Air Force’s Political Commissars Office is up to
A press release worthy of Pravda in glorious terms! SAF DI leadership breaks barriers at AFA By Capt. Shane Ellis Secretary...
Gold Star Widow, Dana Lyon and USAFA Coach Faces Termination Action
The following comments may be attributed to Lt. Gen. USAF (Ret.) Rod Bishop, President and Chairman of the Board of STARRS...
Army / West Point
Not the 82nd!
Woke mind virus hits the 82nd Airborne, using the Left’s weaponized “nice” words. Why someone’s...
Army: An Alternate Opinion of its Readiness
By LTC Tricia Vinson, US Army ret My topic is the COVID-19 vaccine mandate and potential impacts on the military’s readiness...
Navy / Naval Academy
The U.S. Naval Academy is Adrift
By J.A. Cauthen, USNA ’02 Taught in the History Dept at the Academy America, it would seem to some, is irredeemably...
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...
CG/Coast Guard Academy
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After Coast Guard Academy ‘Excommunicated’ Cadets For Refusing Vaccine, Pleas For Reinstatement Go Unanswered
Judicial Watch Sues on Behalf of Concerned Military Group for Air Force Academy Critical Race Theory Records
Situation at US Service Academies
Coast Guard Academy Gives Seven Cadets 24 Hours to Get Off Base After Denying Vaccine Mandate Appeals
STARRS MG Arbuckle on military current events
Interview with Space Force Lt. Colonel Matthew Lohmeier
Military’s crusade for ‘diversity’ a delusion, says vets group
DEI Policies at Air Force Academy Harming Cadets’ Development: Retired Lieutenant General
Unvaccinated Air Force Academy Cadets Cleared For Graduation But Not Commission
STARRS Press Releases (click here for all)
DACODAI: A Little-Known Cultural Agent Pushing the CRT/DEI Agenda in the Military
STARRS Concerns About Growing Transgenderism Policy in the Department of Defense
Current World Events as Backdrop, Reminds Americans and Former Senior Military Officers of Purpose of STARRS
STARRS Explains the Impact of America’s Red-Green Axis During the Current News Cycle
American Citizens Should Support the NDAA
STARRS Releases Position Paper on DOD Transgender Policies
STARRS Reacts to USAA‘s Expanding DEI Role