CIA / FPE / IC / Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi

AUM NAMAH SHIVAYA Upon occasion, in human affairs, it becomes necessary to remind the functionaries that they are not proprietors.  This observation has reference to that Euro-American mélange of colossal dummies who self-identify as the foreign policy establishment (FPE) and intelligence community (IC). Has anyone seen or heard from Abu Baker Al-Baghdadi — aka Ibrahim Awad Ibrahim…

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,…

Thandava – XXVI

AUM NAMAH SHIVAYA Everything will be wonderful after I have everybody’s money. Socialism is envy with a mouth and marketing. Joshua Philipp: On Marxism in America, the Communist China Threat, Unconventional Warfare and Hong Kong Dated 03 August 2019, Superb Hour-Long Video Interview Cults obey a definable pattern: a nub of truth and a monster…

Linked National Sovereignties Replace Containment

AUM NAMAH SHIVAYA The benefits accruing to systems upon a decentralization of their structures of command and control are oft-remarked and well-evidenced.  The diminishments visited upon systems by a centralization of their structures of command and control are, as well, oft-remarked and well-evidenced. Modern man, shot-through as he is with dazzlement before opportunities inhering in…

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…

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 Poise Of Tulsi Gabbard

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?=576&v=8w1zf3YyXRI Her central, and unique, focus is CIA running private wars and funding Jihad and other violent organizations — c.f., guys recently arrested in Haiti then released here — for CIA’s purposes rather…

Contemplating Positions On Chinese Flanks

AUM NAMAH SHIVAYA My entries below, dated 31JAN19 and 29JAN19, are thinking, not proposing, much less advocating.  Importantly, both entries assume that Three Brothers Alliance is operational.  I want to get started anticipating locations and military dispositions beneficial to the Alliance in view of its large, long-term objective of annihilating China’s hegemonic ambition and smaller-short-range…

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…

COCOMs, Independent Nations Treaty Organization, And A Grand Council Of Independent Nations

Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In nomine Patris, et Filii, et Spiritus Sancti.  Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT This post will explore structural renovation of US combatant commands, treaty organizations generally, and the so-called United Nations. The exercise proceeds from the observation that freedom of communication by sea or ocean presses…

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…

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…

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…

Put No Sticks In The Bear’s Eyes

Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In nomine Patris, et Filii, et Spiritus Sancti.  Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT FWIW, this nobody out in the provinces is in the strongest possible agreement with L. Todd Wood that it is insanity to expand NATO; putting sticks into the bear’s eyes, yet!  It is…

It Is Cold Outside The Constitution

Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In nomine Patris, et Filii, et Spiritus Sancti.  Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT The Constitution of The United States of America is the supreme law inside the borders of The United States of America.  Anyone inside those borders operating outside particulars of that Constitution is a…

Forgotten Treasure: The COCOMs

Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In nomine Patris, et Filii, et Spiritus Sancti.  Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT My idea at the moment is that this post initiate a series on the serendipitous presence and powers of the US Combatant Commands (COCOMs). While everyone — well, every American — knows the…