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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

From Spring To Run, To Alluvium, And To Sea

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 A civilization may be compared to a river.  It has an origin (a spring, or family of springs), it has a run (self-made) and it has a destiny (an alluvium and…

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…

Partnership With Russia And India: Three Brothers Doctrine

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 furious tenacity of irrational ethicists continues: Mona Charen is carrying the M249 SAW, so to speak, for the R wing of the D-R UniParty.  Scott Johnson addresses her 16-round burst.…

North Korea, Up Front And Fluid

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 North Korea situation is up front and fluid, and I am no expert on the area.  I think it is not a country, not a sovereign nation state, and I…

Thandava – XIV

  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 Kashmiri militant leader punished as Modi visits US General: US Pilots Made the Call to Shoot Down Syrian Aircraft Sebastian Gorka: Bashir Assad is “Cheap Theater”, A “Potemkin Villager” ……

Thandava – XIII

RAMANAM In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT My brother-in-law says that large-scale disquiet today is about religion.  I quite agree. Yet — one knew that was coming — something is missing in his observation, something larger picture: what…

MENA: A Momentous Turning Point

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 On 12 April 2017 I posted an essay — with bibliographies — titled The Theological Component In The Announcement Of Strategic War To Annihilate ISIL And The Salafi Jihad.  Here is an…