I share a lot of memes I made on Facebook, maybe I should go back to sharing them here too.
Lessons From Ukraine’s August “Incursion” – Blitzkrieg Died At Kursk (Again)
I finally decided to write something in detail about the Ukrainian “incursion” into Kursk, as Wikipedia is calling it (bad guys do “invasions,” good guys do “incursions” and “interventions”). Nine days into this thing, what can be learned from publicly available information? What’s most interesting to me is that I actually predicted such a northward … Read more
The Ten Commandments Is a Great Movie, But Does the World Need It?
The 1956 Charlton Heston movie The Ten Commandments is one of the greatest spectacles to ever grace the silver screen and is indisputably a great work of art, but did it have a positive effect on the world? I’m not so sure. Special effects-wise, the movie aged so well in large part because a lot … Read more
The Myth That Insurgencies Are “Harder” Than Conventional Wars
Almost daily I get comments on social media that guerrilla wars are the “Achilles’ Heel” of American forces. We are the greatest military force to ever exist in human history, but enemies keep insisting on using unfair tactics. I hate to break it to you, but “conventional” nation state enemies are not easier to beat … Read more