The Reading Junkie

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 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

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

I watched the Amazon’s Fallout series when it first came out and just now got around to reviewing it. Bottom line, it is a fun nostalgia trip for people who played the game but really has nothing to say. For readers who are unfamiliar, Fallout is based on the popular post-apocalyptic video game series of … Read more