Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In nomine Patris, et Filii, et Spiritus Sancti. Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT The terms liberal and conservative have the declamatory puissance of a rabbit addressing an elk convention. Military, diplomatic and financial assets are useless without guidance from a rational grand national strategic objective (RGNSO), of which…
The aphorism literary form always has appealed to me as suitable for what I want to say or write. The reason why, I am not sure. The Biblical Prophetic couplet, possibly. Shakespeare, possibly. Pascal and Wittgenstein, possibly. Sathya Sai Baba, probably. Strictly and loosely, over the years I repaired to the aphorism literary form, under…
The One Is Indivisible The Truth Is The Whole There should be a rational grand national strategic objective (RGNSO) justifying the deployment or maintenance of US assets of statecraft (aka US citizens’ persons and wealth) outside US borders. Those assets are three in number: Diplomacy, Finance, and War-Fighting. Wanting to be somewhere is insufficient reason…
