How To Elude And Avoid Hysteria

The old standards are still the standards.Fundamentals have not changed, only incidentals. We go here and there looking for God.Truth is, we are ever only looking right at Him. I write: As I see this CJCS, I am reminded of how GA MacArthur dressed when he addressed a Joint Session of Congress after being relieved…

Heads Up, Guam, Chinese Netting Warfare

The One Is Indivisible The Truth Is The Whole Background: I wrote here that The CCP is throwing a snit fit over having been forced by POTUS Trump, through trade agreement, to abandon fleecing Americans.  Dynamics we see today follow upon that snit fit but also precede it, as discussed in the following. Caveat: Most…

The Chinese Communist Snit Fit

The One Is Indivisible The Truth Is The Whole TEACHERS URGE GOVERNMENT TO REOPEN SCHOOLS BEFORE STUDENTS LEARN TO THINK FOR THEMSELVES If the WWW is thought of as an ocean, one can observe that CCP aim to own it the way His Majesty’s Royal Navy owned the seas, at least awhile.  Ditto space. DJT…

Presidential Executive Order, 10 September 2019

AUM NAMAH SHIVAYA Executive Order on Modernizing Sanctions to Combat Terrorism Good, the EO I mean.  State and Treasury ordered to work to the same end as DOD and just as assiduously.  Exceedingly late but happily received news.  That rationality can do wonders.  Diplomacy, Finance, and War-Fighting are the three assets of statecraft. (I know,…

Pacific Pathways Bullet Points

AUM NAMAH SHIVAYA Pacific Pathways is a strategic path-finding and proof-of-concept operation exploring ahead for multi-partner, multi-domain comms freedom across the Indo-Pacific engagement space. At its heart, Pacific Pathways contemplates a transition of US statecraft asset deployment — diplomacy, finance, war-fighting — from a strategic posture of defensive crouch to a strategic posture of confident…

Thandava – XXV

AUM NAMAH SHIVAYA John Hinderaker: These days, it seems that pretty much all of our cultural indicators are pointing downward. I commented: Perhaps.  Seems is a caveat, as you know.  More than that, The Almighty’s arithmetic is not the same as ours and He is unaccustomed to miscalculating. What was the line, a step or…

Notes Made At A General’s Talk, Early 2017

Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In nomine Patris, et Filii, et Spiritus Sancti.  Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OVDs_z1G95c Political Situation 90 days into USG decapitation, 4k out of jobs, will take a while to recover.  This is normal every 4-8yrs. The Defeat ISIL plan DOD was to give POTUS was a…

Cool Sense And Iran’s Mullahs

Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In nomine Patris, et Filii, et Spiritus Sancti.  Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qUB3zLtPcgI Counselor Paul Mirengoff today commits signature hand-wringing as a post titled Trump’s Dilemma.  As is often the case, creative response occurred: David R. Graham commented This reasoning ricochets about endlessly under the…

Feedback On A Military Unit’s Draft Mission Statement

Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In nomine Patris, et Filii, et Spiritus Sancti.  Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT Thanks, looks quite good.  A bit of fuzzy jargon here and there but overall clear and meaningful. The use of the words compete and adversary to describe basic posture towards an enemy or potential enemy implies…

The Importance Of Institutions

Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In nomine Patris, et Filii, et Spiritus Sancti.  Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT There has been discussion in Russian channels, long standing, regarding the importance of institutions for keeping a society and nation intact.  Even as Communists, Russians were in the position of asymmetry vice USA…

Crying Of The Heart

Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In nomine Patris, et Filii, et Spiritus Sancti.  Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT Jeffrey A. Friedberg, wrote an essay.  It is more rhetorical than I would make it, but I take his points because they are true: “We do not want the word to go out that…

Forever Wars

Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In nomine Patris, et Filii, et Spiritus Sancti.  Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT VDH on the Syria pullout Rogerjb comments: God, are these Forever Wars in fact going to last forever?  Syria is a country of no significance to American interests.  But neocons are happy to…

Who Is Right And Who Is Wrong? — Take Two

Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In nomine Patris, et Filii, et Spiritus Sancti.  Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT Democrats cannot gain power without lying, cheating, and stealing. Republicans cannot maintain power without prosecuting Democrats. Who is right and who is wrong? Democrats make war. Republicans prosecute war. Who is right and…

Benghazi: The Explanation

Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In nomine Patris, et Filii, et Spiritus Sancti.  Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT Paraphrasing Julius Caesar’s famous announcement, Hillary Clinton infamously declared regarding Muammar Gaddafi, We came, we saw, he died.  She could have declared, We came, we saw, we lied. Early in 2011, and under orders from their…

Artificial Intelligence, National Sovereignty, And War-Fighting Capability

Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In nomine Patris, et Filii, et Spiritus Sancti.  Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT This essay is a spread of observations launched against idolators, those who claim for something status it lacks, who claim ultimacy for something not ultimate, who seek to extract money and prestige from…