RAMANAM
In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen.
Countrymen,
Dr. Marek Chodakiewicz discourses under this title for nearly two hour at The Institute Of World Politics in Washington D.C. The date is Friday 7 March 2014. Eminently worth the audit.
Update I: By John Lenczowski at NRO.
Update II: Considerations of further Russian action.
Update III: H. J. Mackinder, The Geographical Pivot Of History, Copyrighted by The Geographical Journal, April 1904.
Update IV: Professors Sebastian Gorka and Marek Chodakiewicz Advise On Ukraine.
Update V: US State Department announces grand strategy.
Update VI: EU to pay Ukraine’s gas bill to Russia.
Update VII: Is The Neo-Isolationist Moment Already Over?
Update VIII: Here they go again.
Update IX: An effort to see and conceive USA grand national strategic goal.
Update X: Here is Professor Dr. Marek Chodakiewicz addressing a stupid avidity of Pat Buchanan’s regarding Vladimir Putin, Russia and a delusion of American evangelicals.
Update XI: False East/West Paradigm Hides The Rise Of A Global Currency
Update XII: Marek Jan Chodakiewicz: Snowden Forever…and the situation is probably worse: not whistleblower, espionage agent.
Update XIII: On 04 February 2015, the 274th anniversary of the birth of Andrzej Tadeusz Bonawentura Kościuszko, Don Surber wrote appreciatively of General Kościuszko. Theological Geography has honored the great Pole and American of Polish descent in several posts. A friend of Theological Geography, Dr. Marek Jan Chodakiewicz, sent these bits of color in the picture of General Kościuszko:
Kosciuszko freed his serfs before he came to the U.S. So I doubt his reflex to help black slaves erupted suddenly because of the South.
The Kosciuszkos were from Merekowszczyzna outside of Minsk. That was about 500 miles away from Mscislaw (Mstislav), outside of which my family sat at the time.
Update XIV: On 27 January 2015, Marine GEN (Ret.) James N. Mattis addressed the United States Senate Armed Services Committee on the subject A New American Grand Strategy. At Hoover Institution, who published an adapted version of General Mattis’ address, I commented — with edits here — as follows:
Not that it matters, but, I both appreciate and despond over General Mattis’ address here. Appreciate because (1) as a genuine warrior he says what he sees and eloquently and (2) his heart is unalloyed courage and compassion. Despond because (1) his address reflects lack of situational awareness — half his auditors at least regard the nation state, including USA, as obsolete and perishing — and (2) his address, although latterly specifying or implying serious tactical weaknesses of current operations, transits the periphery of his title: grand national strategy.
It is rare for a military leader to grasp and execute the several strands — principally diplomatic, economic and military, but others as well — of grand national strategy sufficiently to create a rational grand national strategic *goal* that is also inspirational. It is rare for anyone to be able to do that. General David Petraeus has that ability, which is why the Anti-American, Globalist-partisan US Justice [so-called] Department is persecuting/prosecuting him. Asking Congress or a bureaucracy to develop that ability and execute with it compares with asking a herd of cats to organize an expedition to summit Annapurna. Distilling and serving a happy grand national strategic *goal* is a personal, leadership thing few can do, but some definitely can and do accomplish. Their thoughts merit discovery and attendance.
The cynosure of a nation is not her grand national strategy. It is her grand national strategic *goal.* Given what we see now, project and anticipate — always expecting the unexpected, as General Mattis mentions, thankfully, in his address — where and what do we want to be as a nation three, five, ten, etc. years hence? What is our goal? What do we really, truly — as a nation — want for and of ourself to be, to do, to think? What is our inner necessity as a nation? What are we on this earth to accomplish as a national presence? And why do members of Congress not live in the states from which they were selected for office?
Related: On 04 March 2015 Marine GEN (Ret.) James N. Mattis wrote for Hoover Institution under title Using Military Force Against ISIS. I commented:
I am content that GEN (Ret.) Mattis’ thinking, clear and compelling, be expressed in public. Thank you, General! Our countrymen are working their way towards how they will think and what they will do when they are quit of the hag riding their back. And they will be that. This exercise in preparation for the restoration of national sovereignty and wealth flowing from national moral and intellectual strength is what should be happening and what is happening. I am content.
Update XV: What is Putin about? And here.
Update 16: Ukrainians’ battle successes and skills, credit to
AMDG – VICTORY
