Wealth In Geo-Strategics

As Is The Feeling,So Is The Result. The ability to produce, not properties or money in a bank, is wealth. This is why a poor man can become a rich man. One can make something from nothing, but a something is just nothing. Wealth is the ability to make, not the thing made. Power is…

COCOM Revisits

As Is The Feeling,So Is The Result. In the grasp and design of US Foreign Responsibility and Policy, I have focused on the importance of the Combatant Commands, aka COCOMs. I have been dissatisfied with both the demarcation and the composition of the present system of COCOMs. I remain so. While I believe the COCOMs…

Land War In China, A Rational Problem Set

The One Is Indivisible The Truth Is The Whole   SCMP used to be anti-Communist, now it is ChiCom Lite at least. Marine Littoral Combat Regiment? All this seems both forward-looking and also very amorphous.  It suggests ‘we’re adjusting our force mix to better face off against China, but we’re not sure quite how yet.’…

Hell-Raisers, Seditionists

The One Is Indivisible The Truth Is The Whole They should be arrested for disturbing the peace. And hauled up on charges of sedition. Observed at scale, several geo-strategic phenomena arrest one’s attention by way of their systemic import. One is the failure of the Trump administration, in the company of numerous and distinguished nation-states, so…

The Great Corsican

The One Is Indivisible The Truth Is The Whole A sweet man in any conditions, Scott Johnson commends a biography of Napoleon Bonaparte. I commented: Five images of The Great Corsican dominate my mind: 1- In the difficult art of war, the moral is to the material as three is to one. 2- He killed…

The United States Is A Pacific Power

AUM NAMAH SHIVAYA Good point, good article.  Emphasizing: vector of USA development is westward, not eastward, away from Old World snits (to include MENA), not towards them. Geo-strategically, water is wet land.  The same strategic rules that apply to land warfare apply to sea warfare.  The sea is wet land.  The air is thin land.…

Long-Range Army Planning

Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In nomine Patris, et Filii, et Spiritus Sancti.  Amen Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT Βασιλεία του Θεού Kingdom of God Update 1: Good point, good article.  Emphasizing: vector of USA development is westward, not eastward, away from Old World snits (to include MENA), not towards them. Geo-strategically, water…

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…

Washingtonian Vice Wilsonian Foreign Policy

Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In nomine Patris, et Filii, et Spiritus Sancti.  Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT Today, two experienced and estimable observers, Sundance and Don Surber, have disagreed on the significance of a specific political maneuvering that occurred yesterday in Washington D.C.  The disagreement compels my attention because, although,…

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…

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…

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…

Five Eyes

Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In nomine Patris, et Filii, et Spiritus Sancti.  Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT Today (06AUG18) I commented at my regular read, The Conservative Tree House, that this post of mine, Five Eyes, comprises an analysis of Five Eyes and a suggested remedy thereto.  The analysis is…

I Maestri Italiani: Giovanni di Pietro di Bernardone E Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli

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 Giovanni di Pietro di Bernardone (1181-1226) and Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli (1469-1527) are true Italian Masters of the Human Art.  And they are on the same page, so to speak.  The Man of God…