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Four important articles. More opportunities to get angry, and put America on path to reform.
Summary: While the news media lulls us into a stupor, the world moves on. Two Three Four articles from the front lines deserve your attention. Every day we slide towards ruin and tyranny, an ugly … more →
Fabius Maximus
Four important articles. More opportunities to get angry, and put America on path to reform.
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wrote 2 months ago: Summary: While the news media lulls us into a stupor, the world moves on. Two Three Four articles … more →
The Obama Doctrine: we will attack and destroy all non-nuclear rivals
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wrote 2 months ago: Summary: Obama announced a new grand strategy for America, and we didn’t notice (being in a d … more →
As we start new wars, let's see an expert at COIN review a classic textbook about COIN
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wrote 3 months ago: Summary: As our war against al Qaeda evolves into a worldwide war against insurgents who look Islam … more →
Realism and Realpolitik - Setting the Conditions for America’s Survival in the 21st Century
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wrote 3 months ago: Summary: Today we have a brilliant guest post by Franz Gayl (Major, USMC, retired) discussing Ameri … more →
The Fight for Islamic Hearts and Minds
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wrote 3 months ago: Summary: As our long war with Islamic nations spreads, its worth a moment to see beyond the fear and … more →
WPR: "Counterinsurgency in the Post-COIN Era"
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wrote 4 months ago: Summary: A special issue of World Politics Review reveals the key problems facing the US military. … more →
Some foes of the Republic revealed themselves by sponsoring the Enemy Expatriation Act
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wrote 4 months ago: Summary: The Republic is dying, its foundation whittled away by a thousand cuts during the past cen … more →
Let's look at ourselves in the mirror created by the conflict with Iran
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wrote 4 months ago: Summary: Knowledge is power, including knowledge about ourselves. One way to gain it is by looking … more →
Is Killing Iranian Nuclear Scientists Terrorism?
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wrote 4 months ago: Summary: Since our side has initiated assassination of Iranian scientists, we have a guest article … more →
What the conflict with Iran teaches us about modern State-to-State war
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wrote 4 months ago: Summary: The frequency of 4GW in the post-WWII war — insurgent and highly armed criminal synd … more →
Continuity and dysfunctionality in US foreign policy (lessons for our conflict with Iran)
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wrote 4 months ago: Summary: Today we gain some insights about ourselves from Cold War uber-hawk Colin Grey. Nations h … more →
"Lawfare" - using the law to undermine the Constitution (a powerful tool in the quiet coup now in progress)
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wrote 5 months ago: Summary: There are many ways to change a political regime. Fast and violent often works. Our ruli … more →
Fear the enemies within America more than those outside
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wrote 5 months ago: Summary: The Second Republic, our political regime build on the Constitution, is dying. Not from a … more →
The trinity of US tactics - a constant in our small wars but invisible to us. First, use massive firepower.
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wrote 5 months ago: Summary: Awareness of self is as necessary for war as for other aspects of life. It helps us see w … more →
COIN, another example of our difficulty learning from history or experience
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wrote 5 months ago: Summary: What is our military strategy in the 21st century? More foreign counter-insurgencies? Mo … more →
COIN - Now we see that it failed. But that was obvious before we started (when will we learn?)
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wrote 5 months ago: Summary: Now that the enthusiasm has passed for COIN as the tool by which foreign armies can defeat … more →
Another bill before Congress pushing the USA further into the dark of endless war, stripping away our liberties
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wrote 6 months ago: Summary: Every month seems to bring yet another assault on the Constitution, another chapter in a s … more →
Electromagnetic Pulse Weapons, generating waves of fear in America for 20 years
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wrote 6 months ago: Summary: We are afraid of so many things. That makes us so easy to control. A brave and skeptical … more →
No longer a danger, but a reality: bloodlust in our minds, an inevitable side-effect of a long war.
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wrote 7 months ago: Summary: The response of America to 9-11, encouraged by our leaders, was fear. Abject, bed-wetting … more →
