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Weaponized Chaos: How Unpredictability Became America’s New Deterrent

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We’ve seen this movie before, and the lesson was written in blood during the Vietnam War. The United States didn’t lose because it ran out of bombs, bullets, or body armor. It lost because it ran out of public will. The battlefield shifted from the jungle to the living room, and once the American people stopped believing, the strategy collapsed under its own weight. Since then, every adversary worth their salt—from insurgent groups to near-peer competitors—has studied that vulnerability like it’s the Rosetta Stone of defeating the United States: fracture the narrative, erode domestic support, and time will do the rest.

Renaming Greenland – Trumpland: The Arctic Now Belongs to the Hegemon

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Let’s stop pretending this is a seminar where everyone raises their hand and waits to be called on. The United States is the global hegemon. That’s not bravado; it’s the rebuilt operating system. When America “consults,” it’s being polite. When America decides, the rest of the world updates its talking points.

Sometimes you just have to be an [insert slang term for the rectum here] to do things right

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My good friend and occasional blog pinch hitter William Teach noted that Luke Broadwater of The New York Times was apoplectic over the hardball that President Donald Trump played during the Government shutdown: The government shutdown is already the longest in American history. But it’s also perhaps the most punishing, in part because President Trump …

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