National Security And National Sovereignty: #5

Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT At Rantburg today, a regular contributor and commenter using the handle Besoeker (means visitor in Dutch when spelled Bezoeker) wrote two comments that bear upon USA grand national strategic objectives, to include…

11 September 2012: Benghazi

Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT He is a blogger who goes by the name Sundance and owns the website The Conservative Tree House / The Last Refuge.  I think he has his sensitive fingers, somehow, on…

Christianity And Socialism

Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT The Rev. Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s ruminations on religionless Christianity I shared recently with a clerical friend. The friend replied: I like his thought that the Church stands not where the human powers give…

Baghdad, Damascus, And IO Operations

Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT The door to the Middle East has two hinges: Baghdad and Damascus.  The weight of the door rests on those hinges, has for millennia and appears destined to continue doing so.…

Multi-Religious Nations: The Spirit Of The Age

Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT POTUS Trump’s basic campaign concept in re MENA — and to include Israel — is that USA has no strategic interest there, especially now with energy independence cum supremacy, unless someone…

The Totalitarian Ambition

Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT IMHO, the most significant and impelling fact to emerge inside the predictable flooding of Houston this past week is that authorities and officials requested and welcomed voluntary citizen assistance, with their equipment, comprising…

Who Are These People?

Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT Who are these people? Hinderaker yesterday: If the Republicans stop reading the Washington Post and the New York Times and get on with the business of governing, the Democrats have no…

To Annihilate Political Subversion

Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In nomine Patris, et Filii, et Spiritus Sancti.  Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT Joshua Philipp: On Marxism in America, the Communist China Threat, Unconventional Warfare and Hong Kong Dated 03 August 2019, Superb Hour-Long Video Interview Busy-bodies are not trying to regulate, they are trying to…

POTUS Trump’s Speech On Pakistan

Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT 4K is a BCT equivalent, I would guess Light Infantry or Stryker (INF or CAV).  Or, a mix of SOF units to approximate that 4K number. Loosening the ROEs is the…

Leave The Door To Strategic Unknowns Ajar

Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT If we want to solve a problem that we have never solved before, we must leave the door to the unknown ajar. Richard Feynman Useful thinking on the subject, thanks.  I…

The Rich Higgins Memo

Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT Foreign Policy has published the memo, by Rich Higgins, which, by all accounts, occasioned H. R. McMaster’s dismissing him from the National Security Council.  Foreign Policy is owned by Graham Holdings…

It Was Brennan All Along

Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT George Neumayr: Even lefty Seymour Hersh agrees that the Russian fable beg[a]n in the mind of [The Fraud’s] CIA director.  More here. … the ruling class and deep state, which are composed largely of aging…

Monsters In Bespoke Suits

Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT The insanity of thrashing about in this jejune triviality whilst great matters of state and religion overbear the nation presses itself upon me with insistent vigor of late.  What nation can…

National Security And National Sovereignty: #4

Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT If SecState’s discourse here were an elaborate ruse to keep from talking about what is really happening, especially conceptually, I would say it is brilliant.  I’m sure some of that purpose…

Angelo M. Codevilla: Advice To War Presidents

Chaitanya   Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In nomine Patris, et Filii, et Spiritus Sancti.  Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT Angelo M. Codevilla is justly esteemed a political philosopher of the first water, of the highest translucence.  I consider him the peer-successor of his countryman (of birth) Niccolò Machiavelli. Political philosophy (statecraft) always has been…

Stability Is Not An Objective

Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT Looters want stability.  Builders want opportunity. Allowing Syria to become a launching pad for Iranian aggression is not the way to achieve stability.  Israel and the U.S. will be conferring closely…