Category Archives: Strategy

Guerrilla War

Posted on April 23, 2024 by Holmes Oliver

OK, this post also refers to someone else who knows more. Frustrating how many of those there are.  Willie OAM, on this very April 24, 2024 (15) UA Withdraws As RU Exploits An Opportunity – Can This Be Overcome? – … Continue reading →

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How We Got Into the War with Russia

Posted on April 23, 2024 by Holmes Oliver

This is another post that refers you elsewhere, this time to the estimable James Howard Kunstler The Bad Faith Olympics – by James Howard Kunstler (substack.com)  I think his is as reasonable and succinct an explanation of how we fell … Continue reading →

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Cromulent

Posted on April 23, 2024 by Holmes Oliver

Yup, that word was used today in the lead article at Ace of Spades HQ (Ace of Spades HQ (mu.nu) in ‘The Morning Rant’ of 23 April by J.J. Sefton.  We are obliged to normalize-mainstream the term. It means good … Continue reading →

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Niger and Strategic Competence

Posted on April 22, 2024 by Holmes Oliver

Sometimes we need to just wait and see. One unfortunate aspect of extant strategy grammar is the presumed, even glorified, carte blanche it gives to governments to hide details from their publics. Secrecy in international dealings kinda makes sense, doesn’t … Continue reading →

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Risk Distance and the Vantasner Danger Meridian

Posted on April 7, 2024 by Holmes Oliver

We decided to binge-watch the television series “Patriot.” The show introduced, as one of its unifying themes, a thing called the ‘Vantasner Danger Meridian.’  After not finding enough about it on plain old Google, I figured I’d talk it up with ChatPGT-4.  … Continue reading →

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Don’t Be a Climate Denier

Posted on March 31, 2024 by Holmes Oliver

Don’t let them label you a skeptic, either. That’s just another syntactical ploy to steer away from the truth of the matter. Be an accuser. Be a punisher. Climate alarm and carbon-blaming is a theft scheme, a fraud, a scam, … Continue reading →

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Ukraine Opinion Update

Posted on March 31, 2024 by Holmes Oliver

My relatively ignorant uninformed take: Darkening prospects for the survival of Ukraine. Slow, grinding, accelerating Russian progress all along the front. The Ukrainians have done amazingly well in slowing the advance. The Ukrainians have mounted a combination of competent coup … Continue reading →

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Israeli and World Geography

Posted on March 29, 2024 by Holmes Oliver

I offer this small geographic note to any among my legion of fans who might for whatever reason find themselves in a friendly, open, intellectual exchange regarding the country of Israel and its future. I ask that you begin your … Continue reading →

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On the War for America in 2025

Posted on March 28, 2024 by Geoff Demarest

Tip to Citizen Free Press and X. (8) End Wokeness on X: “All hell breaks loose at an airport in Paris as illegals try to stop a deportation: https://t.co/8sxKK72q0z” / X (twitter.com) The video purportedly shows a group of illegals … Continue reading →

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Things Are Messed Up

Posted on March 26, 2024 by Holmes Oliver

A couple of news items drag me in today. One is the cargo ship hitting Key Bridge in Baltimore.  Not all details in yet, but already easy to compare to the Ukrainians (with our help I assume) trying time after … Continue reading →

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