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Monthly Archives: March 2024
Foreign Forces
Todd Bensman (Center for Immigration Studies, Center for Immigration Studies (cis.org) has an article out in Imprimis, a publication of Hillsdale College with which many of you are positively familiar. The title of Bensman’s article is “An Immigration Crisis Beyond … Continue reading
Tyrant Jewelry
My wife and I just finished binge-watching all of the miniseries The Man in the High Castle. We thought it entertaining and oddly relevant to the current political condition. I have thoughts. One is that I was irritated to see … Continue reading
Nulandism
There was never any intellectual resistance among progressives to adopting the magical-realism style in fictional literature to political propaganda. The unstable but effective competitive advantage of narrative over accurate depiction invites progressives to favor even the most improbable untruths. That … Continue reading
Posted in Strategy, The War for America, Uncategorized
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Apologize to Criminals?
Hard to watch a president do that. (Biden apologized for having referred to the man accused of murdering Laken Riley as an illegal alien. José Antonio Ibarra, a Venezuelan national, is innocent until proven guilty — of murder — but … Continue reading
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What Geography is to Strategy
Geography provides us the best vocabulary and theory set for competent strategy making. Geography focuses on where and how far. Geography is the natural home of cartography and GIS. I mention this because too many of our military leaders are … Continue reading
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The SOTU
Joe gave a speech last night and I thought he got through it pretty well, cognitively speaking. The speech writer is no Shakespeare, but even there we need to give some leeway since these things tend to be hierarchical checklists … Continue reading
The Ukrainian Navy
Insufficiencies of the Ukrainian ground forces have been easy to spot, although given their disadvantages, they’ve been doing work slowing the Russians down and making them pay a toll for territory gained. An aspect significant to our military in the … Continue reading
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Colorado’s Progressive Lawfare
A good day for a political comment on things political. It’s Super Tuesday and it’s the day after the day before Super Tuesday. That is, the day after the Supreme Court of the United States published an emergency 9-0 ruling … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, Jurisprudence, Lawfare, The 2024 Elections, The War for America
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German Generals?
Really? We get to hear what German generals are saying in secret? That’s interesting as all hack, if true. (see what I did there?) Doesn’t sound good for the Ukes, but hardly anything does these days. Beyond that is a … Continue reading
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Regarding the War for America Map
I listened to mapper/commenter Willy OAM this morning for the first time. Interesting and useful map-based discussion of the Ukraine war. He gave considerable credit to a mapper called suriyak-maps. Dima at the Military Summary Channel also sites Suriyak often. … Continue reading