Memorial Day Weekend of Lockdown
I will leave the artistic ruminations of this day to others better suited than I.
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Category: Foreign Policy
How to play 5 Dimensional Chess
First, you will need:
– A peyote plant (available from the SugarFree merch store)
Making War Ethically: To Bomb or Not to Bomb
There are entire degrees to be obtained in studying and arguing about theories of warfare, what constitutes sufficient causus belli, and under what circumstances nuclear and/or total warfare might even be considered.
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On the Composition of the US Military and Being a World Power
I’ll let the Glibertariat hash out the details and point out the flaws in my thinking in the comments.
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My Friend, I want you to be my special friend, my friend.
Somewhere in the Arabian Peninsula…
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This [REDACTED] is [REDACTED] as [REDACTED]
And IRAN. IRAN so far away….
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South China Sea: Fair Seas or Foul Weather? Part 2
The much-anticipated Part 2 of dbleagle’s informative post.
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South China Sea: Fair Seas or Foul Weather? Part 1
dbleagle explains what is going on in the South China Sea and why we should care.
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Stone Wall and Sudley Ford: A photographic tour of Manassas Battlefield National Park
trshmnstr invites us along for a tour
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Beyond the Pale
Suthenboy looked, and behold, an ashen fence… You know the rest, right?
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Glibertarians: Circa 1783
Ev’ry Thursday, publish’d in this Gazette, a weekly description of Wenches of the Thicc of whom suff’rd no visible blemish of the Pox upon their fair countenances.
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The Insidious Dr. Fu-Manchu and the Birth of Neoyokelservatism
“Many there are, I doubt not, who will regard the Eastern girl with horror. I ask their forgiveness in that I regarded her quite differently. No man having seen her could have condemned her unheard. Many, having looked into her lovely eyes, had they found there what I found, must have forgiven her almost any crime.” –Dr. Petrie
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Afghanistan – Growling and Flirting
A short background and observations on the current Afghanistan situation, as it involves Pakistan...
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An Apologia for the Non-Interventionists that Voted Trump
Just Say’n on the good, the bad, and the Trumply.
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Not again… in Kabul. A short impression of recent events.
Not again, please.
Read MoreSyrian Gas Attack – an analysis by Sargon of Akkad
This is a long video – 90 min or so, but Sargon makes some good points in this video (some of which have been echoed here on other threads)
Read MoreAn Example of Counter-Counterinsurgency
What the bad guys did was cheap, easy and it worked. Not a repeatable trick, but a good one, nonetheless.
Read MoreA Good Example for Counterinsurgency (or policing)
How some Virginians, Afghans and a Soviet tractor showed me the way. And kept me from blowing a leg off.
Read MoreDo We Owe Anything To The Afghan Dead, Opportunist or Brave?
In 2004-2005 I was part of the long and latest version of the wars in Afghanistan. I was the Civil Affairs Officer for one of the two Task Forces running around Parwan, Kapisa and part of Kabul province. My job – Go make...
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