Essentials Against Potentials

Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In nomine Patris, et Filii, et Spiritus Sancti.  Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT US Armed Forces as a whole and as units thereof propound vision statements.  These often contain the phrase anytime, anywhere to indicate intention regarding readiness for operations.  They do not, usually, contain phrases declaring a…

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…

The INDO-PACIFIC Region Is A Land-Based Problem Set

AUM NAMAH SHIVAYA When admirals’ ships are crashing about and generals’ fighting formations are losing wars as well as battles, the premise(s) from which their proceedings proceed are false.  Events such as these indicate the presence of more and deeper irresponsibility than can be adduced from an incidental mishap. In the case of US armed…

Washingtonian Vice Wilsonian Foreign Policy

Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In nomine Patris, et Filii, et Spiritus Sancti.  Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT Today, two experienced and estimable observers, Sundance and Don Surber, have disagreed on the significance of a specific political maneuvering that occurred yesterday in Washington D.C.  The disagreement compels my attention because, although,…

USA SitRep And Prognosis

Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In nomine Patris, et Filii, et Spiritus Sancti.  Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT 1- The Red Army owns most large USA institutions. 2- The American Army owns USA land, families, and Constitution. 3- Land, families, and Constitution are stronger than institutions. 4- The Red Army’s strategic…

Freedom And Reactionaries

Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In nomine Patris, et Filii, et Spiritus Sancti.  Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT History moves on.  Socialists are reactionaries. Cortez, Obama, Harris, et al are not keeping up with history.  Like Buckley before them, and his heirs Kristol, Goldberg, Podhoretz, Mirengoff, so-called Libertarians, and the mountebanks…

Five Eyes, Reconfigured

Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In nomine Patris, et Filii, et Spiritus Sancti.  Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT In the movie Patton, George C. Scott, playing General George S. Patton — addresses a gathering of ladies at an English village.  He announces, among other things, that England and The United States…

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…

US Foreign Policy/Military Establishment Zero

Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In nomine Patris, et Filii, et Spiritus Sancti.  Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT Super Bowl III: Right Click, Open In New Tab The question of national interest, or as I call it, rational USA grand national strategic objective, is treated by several commenters, all implicitly or…

Americans

Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In nomine Patris, et Filii, et Spiritus Sancti.  Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT This speaks for itself: Baruch Pletner: The Hi-Tech Traditionalist: Judge Sullivan Was Right There is something unseemly, obscene, and yes, treasonous in a three-star general, a senior intelligence officer in the US military, engaging…

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…

Bill McRaven: The Showboating Admiral

Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In nomine Patris, et Filii, et Spiritus Sancti.  Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT Yesterday, Admiral (Retired) William McRaven, delivered of himself a taunt to POTUS Trump: put me in solidarity with John Brennan, remove my security clearance. There is a trend among senior military leaders, whose…

Piercing Eloquence: Three Brothers Doctrine, Three Eyes

Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In nomine Patris, et Filii, et Spiritus Sancti.  Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT DATELINE: The White House 23 September 2018 Transcript: POTUS Debriefs Nobody Present: POTUS Trump, VPOTUS Pence, CoS Kelly, Ivanka Trump, Nobody POTUS: Thank you for coming, Nobody.  I know the trip is difficult…

Army Recruiting

Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In nomine Patris, et Filii, et Spiritus Sancti.  Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT Abnormal Conditions, Causing Recruiting Crash Strategic Vacuum Lethality Disconnected From Geographies Killing Disconnected From Rational Objective National Asset Deployment Disconnected From National Interest GO/CSM Silence Regarding Grand Strategic Thought And Counsel Claiming non-responsibility,…

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…