Paradigm Shift: Dependence To Independence

Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In nomine Patris, et Filii, et Spiritus Sancti.  Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT The international order (paradigm) constructed by allies victorious in WWII had as basic assumption that USA, being strongest and most prosperous country in world — The Soviet has capable military but is not…

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…

The God Of Time And The Gods Of Space

Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In nomine Patris, et Filii, et Spiritus Sancti.  Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT I have quoted Tillich on this subject before now.  I return to it as a strategic opportunity in view of the grand conflict playing out in front of us, within us, and for…

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…

50th Reunion At The Union Theological Seminary In The City Of New York

Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In nomine Patris, et Filii, et Spiritus Sancti.  Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT In 1969, I graduated with the degree of Bachelor of Divinity at The Union Theological Seminary In The City Of New York.  2019 is the 50th anniversary of that occasion. Last week I…

The Church Is Exclusive, Not Inclusive

Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In nomine Patris, et Filii, et Spiritus Sancti.  Amen Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT Thou shalt have none other gods before me. Deuteronomy 5:7 The Church includes those called by God to be Her children.  The Church comprises God’s children. The Church excludes those not called by…

Thandava – XXIII

Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In nomine Patris, et Filii, et Spiritus Sancti.  Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT David R. Graham Roger locates the socialist virus in our educational system, and I think he is right about that, too. I would go farther and finger the teachers’ unions as the number…

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…

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…

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 – XX

Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In nomine Patris, et Filii, et Spiritus Sancti.  Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT Academic Activists Send a Published Paper Down the Memory Hole Accelerating Multi-Domain Operations: evolution of an idea VDH: Are We on the Verge of Civil War? PROFILE: Facts about the leader of the Muslim…

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…

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…