An American tourist in Russia
In light of present and recent circumstances—the ongoing war in Ukraine, the decades-long expansion of NATO, and the many claims of Russian interference in American elections—Russia and her actions (as well as the Western reactions to them) might seem to be of the most obvious interest to would-be prognosticators intent on envisioning the world of … Read more
Chinese Mandarins, American Knights: Law and the Matrix of Values Development As important as the values of a nation are, equally significant is the mechanism by which they evolve. In this section, we will examine the different matrices of values development in the United States and China. More specifically, we will consider them within the … Read more
In March 2021 I declared that President Biden is destroying the US military, and offered some speculation as to why he would want to do that. Today, every military branch is gripped by a recruiting crisis, so apparently I was right. But I don’t want to gloat because the true answer is a bit more complicated than that.
In 1989, a group of military theorists (including the famed William Lind) penned an article for the Marine Corps Gazette titled The Changing Face of War: Into the Fourth Generation. Over the next 30 years, this “Fourth Generation” would shape American and NATO’s entire philosophy toward warfare. There was just one problem, it was disastrously wrong.
