SPEAKERS
Major General Joe Arbuckle, US Army retired
STARRS Vice Chairman Emeritus Maj. General Joe Arbuckle, USA (Ret.) graduated from college in 1968, and entered the Army in 1969 as a private. Following training as a combat engineer, he was later commissioned upon graduating from Engineer Officer Candidate School in 1970. Having volunteered for duty as an Infantry Officer, he served a year in Vietnam on Advisory Team 22, embedded with the South Vietnamese Army. He has commanded at every rank from Lieutenant to Major General, specializing in the missile field. During later years, he served in various capacities as an Army strategist and became an industrial base expert, playing a major role in the DoD “Revolution in Military Logistics” campaign. He was inducted into the Army OCS, Engineer, Ordnance and AMC Halls of Fame. General Arbuckle retired after 32 years of commissioned and enlisted service.
Donald T. Critchlow
Arizona State University (ASU) Katzin Family Professor of History Donald T. Critchlow is founder and director of the Center for American Institutions. An American political and policy expert historian, he is the author of numerous books and was awarded the 2021 Zebulon Pearce Distinguished Teaching Award in the Humanities. Critchlow has appeared on C-SPAN, NPR, BBC World News, Fox News Digital, and many talk radio programs. He has written for The Washington Post, The New York Observer, New York Post, NewsMax and National Review, and has lectured in Europe, China, and Brazil. He also serves as the editor-in-chief of the Journal of Policy History , published by Cambridge University Press.
Colonel Ron Scott, PhD, US Air Force retired
Col. Ron Scott, PhD, USAF (Ret.) is the President and CEO of STARRS, a non-profit organization that works to eliminate anti-American ideologies in the US Military and promote the return to a warfighter ethos of meritocracy, lethality, readiness, standards, accountability and excellence in the military. He is a 1973 graduate of the United States Air Force Academy. He has over 30 years of leadership experience in the Air Force, including command at all levels from flight to wing, senior policy positions at a major command and at the Pentagon, combat as a command pilot with flight time in the OV-10, F-4E, and C-130E/H, and overseas assignments in Europe, Asia, and Southwest Asia. Ron has a master’s in psychology from the University of Northern Colorado and a PhD from Arizona State University.
Emcee: Dr. Martha Ostrom, PhD
Dr. Martha Ostrom, PhD, is President and CEO of Foundation and Fundraising Consultants, LLC and serves on the STARRS Board of Directors and Development Committee. Martha currently serves on The MacArthur Society Board of Advisors. She brings over 40 year’s experience as a leader within various organizational sectors, e.g., as a private business owner, Office Chief at The Arizona Department of Health Services (ADHS), entrepreneur, justice system court-appointed facilitator, and nonprofit organization (NPO) CEO and consultant. Her doctoral degree is in Public Administration.
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