Security Of Base

Security Of Base

by | Oct 6, 2021 | Opinion, Politics

Most Americans are convinced the nation has gone off the rails. The proofs: a mountain of debt (with much more to come) with no Marshal Plan leaps over normal market evolutions to show for it (and with none coming); our political system devolved into tribal warfare...
Suicide By Sycophancy

Suicide By Sycophancy

by | Sep 13, 2021 | Opinion, Politics

How many articles predicting the ruin that became Afghanistan’s end-game have you read? I recently wrote one, and in all my study for it, I could not find a single source that forecast the speed of the Afghan National Army (ANA) collapse. In the many versions I...
Our Afghan Whipping

Our Afghan Whipping

by | Aug 16, 2021 | Opinion, Politics

Our Afghanistan project has failed. The Afghan National Army (ANA) has disintegrated, and as we leave, the Taliban fill the vacuum with breathtaking speed. What went wrong? The basic explanations are the only ones necessary. The first is that their holy book teaches...
The Great Firewall

The Great Firewall

by | Jun 8, 2021 | Culture, Economics, Election, Opinion, Politics

The Ascendancy of China in American Culture Few people would disagree that the last two years have changed American society more than any entire generation in our country’s history. In my opinion, that includes the decades of the Great Depression and World War...
Curated Outrage

Curated Outrage

by | May 28, 2021 | Culture, Opinion, Politics

Hamas, a terrorist organization committed to the end of Israel as a nation, started shooting rockets into Israel a few weeks ago. Israel responded. After a few thousand rockets and a death toll that, depending on who’s reporting, numbers from dozens to hundreds,...