On The Line Of Fire

Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In nomine Patris, et Filii, et Spiritus Sancti.  Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT Some direct hits: David Blackmon: BOOM! The White House Strikes Back. – (PDF) Michael Anton: Tucker’s Right – (PDF) Michael Van Der Galien: Bannon: ‘Monday Was the Most Important Day of Trump’s Presidency’ Outcome: Sundance:…

Penta-Force

Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In nomine Patris, et Filii, et Spiritus Sancti.  Amen Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT A PDF version of this post concludes it. Multi-Domain Operations is today the rallying point, the main theme of USA military leader thought.  Multi-Domain Battlespace and Multi-Domain Warfare are parallel themes. Comme il…

INDOPACOM

AUM NAMAH SHIVAYA Viewing INDOPACOM as a whole, these total/joint — Diplomacy, Finance, War-Fighting — force posture necessities should be noted: 1- INDOPACOM is an Army show because the Army is the lead component of the total/joint force — which includes also State and Treasury Departments– facing the region’s chief hegemon, China. Every COCOM is…

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…

Contemplating Land War In China

AUM NAMAH SHIVAYA The leverage available for war-making: Air – Finance Water – Transportation Food – Industry Without air, one dies in three minutes.  Without water, one dies in three days.  Without food, one dies in three weeks.  This is the Rule of Threes.  It is the same in war.  Without finance, an armed force…

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…

Bracketing

Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000   RAMANAM In nomine Patris, et Filii, et Spiritus Sancti.  Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT I suggest the concept of bracketing trouble-makers/hegemons (China, Iran, NORK, Salafis) with the geo-strategic weight of fresh arrays of significant allies.  The allies are those under threat who can be made to…

Thandava – XXI

Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In nomine Patris, et Filii, et Spiritus Sancti.  Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT Democrats: A plague on the nation Leading Catholic Jesuit magazine retracts endorsement of Judge Kavanaugh The Indestructible Lie: WaPo Congressional Reporter Blames Right-Wing Mobs For Inspiring Gabby Giffords Shooting Inside The Deluded & Desperate…

Strategics First, Then Tactics

Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In nomine Patris, et Filii, et Spiritus Sancti.  Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT USA General and Flag Officers engage in dereliction of duty, again. They treat strategic problems as tactical problems in order to avoid responsibility commensurate with their rank and mission. Avoiding responsibility for strategic…

Eyes West

Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In nomine Patris, et Filii, et Spiritus Sancti.  Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT … that energy extraction strategy alone would have put Papadopoulos in opposition to the interests of Obama, Clinton, Turkey, Qatar and ultimately Iran and Russia. Clinton/Obama/Alexander Downer all were involved in the rival…

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…

COCOMs And The Global Allied Force

Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In nomine Patris, et Filii, et Spiritus Sancti.  Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICITSOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT Paul Tillich Shrine, New Harmony, Indiana, Thanks To Jane Blaffer Owen This post comprises the stub of an idea and a few more and less related pithy sayings. The idea arises from my observing…