To Xi or Not to Xi; That is the Question for the PRC (and the World)
Xi Jinping’s “historic resolution” bodes ill for Chinese citizens and the World
History
USMA Class of 1972: My Looking Back and Ahead 50 years. (Part 3 of 3)
My personal perspective on West Point, obviously, is mine alone. It’s aged over 50 years since graduation and informed by 65 years of reading history as well as over 2 decades working as an Army “Futurist.” I believe West Point should focus on creating the cadre of the “military priesthood” of the U.S. Army. I know such a shift would get mixed results, but 50 years from now Americans would know the Long Gray Line is about winning America’s wars above all else.
The System Works…
Two great rulings put restraint on one state’s abuse of power, and ended a judicial overreach. Hopefully this is just the start.
Post Modernism and the Commandments
A a person who torments you out of greed will be satisfied when he takes what is yours. A person who torments you for your own good will never be satisfied.
Settled Law…Isn’t
What some people refer to as “settled law” isn’t – it’s not “settled,” nor is it “law.”
The Ten Commandments Part II
Last time we met, we looked at the first three commandments that God gave to his people through Moses. For the purposes of better understanding western thought, it is critical to recognize that the Ten Commandants have been the bedrock of western morality for centuries. As we discussed, the entire law of Moses is predicated on two …
What Does “Cooling the Economy” Look Like?
Around 2028, when things are beginning to return to pre-COVID levels of prosperity, and some fool at the NIH wants to shut the economy down to “flatten the curve,” remember the true cost of the last shut down.
USMA Class of 1972: 50 Years Ago and Now. Why It Matters Is Why I Care (Part 2 of 3)
How my West Point Class of 1972 mattered to the Army is why I care about West Point today. That begs the question, “Why does West Point matter?” What matters today – for the Class of 2022?
Police and Professionalism
A urban fable that’s come up recently, is that being a law enforcement officer (LEO) requires less training than a beautician (although inaccurate, I must agree some states put ridiculous requirements on licensing to cut hair). The implication is that police are undertrained, or worse, untrained. To put it mildly, that is inaccurate. Liberals in …
Is America Becoming a Third World Country?
America today seems more like a hostile, chaotic, and untamed third-world backwoods than a sophisticated cutting-edge republic
Racism: A Final Look
Racism is insidious. One cannot do anything about the color of their skin. We can dye our hair, if we have any. We can change the color of our eyes with contacts. But we cannot change our skin color.
What Hath the CCP Wrought? (Part I)
America’s China policy objectives have been flawed for decades, resulting in the ascendancy of a hyper-aggressive People’s Republic of China
Racism: 4 of 4; How Did Systemic Racism Start?
World history is marred with slavery. The Egyptians and Babylonians enslaved the Jews. The Greeks and Romans had slaves captured in battle. Nomad cultures in the Middle East, Africa and America resulted in the enslavement of captured tribes. There is an old adage, to the victors go the spoils. The spoils were put to death …
USMA Class of 1972, Proud and True, 50 Years After (Part 1 of 3)
The West Point Class of 1972 entered at the height of the Vietnam War. We went, expecting to fight in Vietnam, when our generation and America was split in two. The War ended when the author was in winter Ranger School.
The Stoics Today
What were the lessons of the Stoics, why were they critical in Admiral Stockdale’s survival as a POW, and what can they tell us today?
Remember
“Go tell to Sparta, thou who passest by, that here, obedient to her laws, we lie.”
– Simonides
Ask Google and a Veteran the Importance of June 6, You’ll Get Two Radically Different Answers
One doesn’t have to be a history buff to understand the significance of June 6, the anniversary of the Allied liberation of Europe in 1944. The D-Day landings in Normandy, France, amounted to the largest amphibious assault ever executed in military history. It marked the start of the two-month-long Battle of Normandy and the eventual liberation …
Protecting Our Children
The left has been wanting to ban firearms, all of them, ever since I can remember.
Will We Keep Our Republic?
Benjamin Franklin. Image via Pixabay Ben Franklin famously said, “You’ve got a republic, if you can keep it.” That warning is particularly haunting now, because we seem on the verge of losing it – not from foreign invasion – not from revolution – but because we stopped caring about it. America was founded on …