World War III Watch: It Could Still Happen if People Get Stupid.

It was only a couple of days ago that the democratic West was buoyed by Ukraine’s deep strikes into Russia. From The Washington Post: Ukraine’s drones disrupt Russia with airport closures, internet blackouts As Ukrainian drones strike deep into Russian territory, they are disrupting day-to-day life and reminding Russians that the war is not confined …

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From CW2 Cube to Culture War 2.1: How Matt Bracken’s Theory Evolved into Today’s Fragmented America

In the early 2010s, retired Navy SEAL and political novelist Matt Bracken published a provocative essay titled “CW2 Cube. In it, he proposed a three-dimensional model for understanding how a second American civil war might play out—not along neat geographic lines, but via complex interrelations of race, ideology, and allegiance to government authority.

Shattering the Old Lie: General Patton’s War Wisdom and the True Duty of a Warrior

Poets and propagandists have long clung to the ancient Latin phrase: “Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori”—“It is sweet and proper to die for one’s country.” But by the time the industrial slaughterhouses of World War I had chewed through millions of lives, that “old lie,” as poet Wilfred Owen called it, rang hollow.

Erwin Rommel: The Desert Fox, His Defeat by Patton, and His Tragic End

Few generals in history have commanded both the admiration of their enemies and the fear of their superiors quite like Erwin Rommel, the legendary “Desert Fox” of World War II. A master of mobile warfare, Rommel became Germany’s most celebrated general for his lightning-fast tactics in North Africa, where he routinely outmaneuvered larger Allied forces. …

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