in hopes of a slight catharsis https://youtu.be/Txq3kSKirDs?t=39m24s
Category: War, arms trade, and all that nasty shit
America’s assumptions about our threats may be very outdated. WE are seen as the enemy by most. (Even most allies, now.)
“”…it’s time we stopped willfully misunderstanding the situation we are in and the leverage we no longer have.
The world is uniting against us with stunning rapidity.
I am not a spy
So, as a non-Russia hating, radical, subversive hacker whose formal education was in Chemistry, speaks the wrong languages, thinks Israel commits war crimes and that America does as well, is embedded in the center of the proving grounds of the Military Industrial Complex and whose entire life was spent under the tutelage of a father that essentially made the Surveillance State possible, I just want to say, for the record: I am not a spy.
Starts as an excellent lecture on McClellan and Lee by Dr. Rafuse & quickly veers into “Give ‘Em Hell, Harry!”
A really excellent talk on by Ethan S. Rafuse on McClellan and Lee, and the gentlemanly/outdated West Point notions they brought to the Civil War. (Which, by the way, didn’t hamper Robert E. Lee from fighting in the way it did McClellan.) As a University of Missouri alumnus – where I was born – as…
The South – Grant – and what about the cotton strategy?
What about the South choosing to starve the global cotton market instead of flooding it? Because that was incredibly stupid.
Vicksburg – well, first, Grant more broadly – (and an amusing time-traveling sidetrack to Gettysburg)
So I really want to concentrate on Vicksburg but because Vicksburg was really about long, difficult, and seemingly endless preparation and because in that situation the purely personal relationships are key – and because Steve Knott’s Army War College lecture is so good – I’m going to put it up first so that at least…
“Well, you’re looking at the wrong guy” Bacevich on the Middle East
A. (Andrew Bacevich): “US policy was both contradictory and incoherent… worse still, they put that ignorance on display for friend and foe alike to contemplate. The US looked both stupid and untrustworthy.”
Q. (Mark Kukis): “I need cheering up.”
A. (Bacevich): “Well, you’re looking at the wrong guy.”
Nazis Make a Lot of Sense – Military Theory Part II
We need brute force to keep our drones. We certainly cannot lose them to the enemy. For our drones we need Germany. We are not leaving Germany to chance. Oh, say, you know who’s good at that? Nazis. Yesterday’s forward.com article written by Lili Bayer was featured on today’s Democracy Now! and Forward reporter Larry Cohler-Esses made a surprisingly devastating case that Sebastian Gorka, Trump’s “chief counter-terrorism consultant,” is…
The Strait You’ve Never Heard Of
“The Red Sea, with the Suez Canal in the north and the Bab el-Mandeb in the south, is one of the most vital sea lines of communication and a critical shipping link between our Pacific and European allies … Since a significant part of USCENTCOM’s forces would deploy by sea, ensuring these waterways remain open…
Some more 5th Fleet action: NAVCENT
Found this one on Saudi-US Information website listed under the hashtags #nottrending #antiviral Lucky you have me, I guess. I was, perhaps, a bit defensive about one particular term chosen by Batmish for my otherwise ridiculously complementary bio page in his graphically extraordinaire Christmas “Art As Arson” publication; and that term was “arcane.” He called me a “dabbler in the arcane.” I’m…
Exact Words 