I began blogging in December 2012. Although I have archive searches by month and category, here’s a listing of my posts on military issues and foregn policy.
2012 Blog Posts
December 20, 2012: Another Viewpoint from Gladius Maximus
December 21, 2012: KT McFarland Analyzes Benghazi Report
December 24, 2012: Suggested Reading
December 27, 2012: Link To Terrific Dave Grossman Article
December 28, 2012: A Conflict of Cultures or a Matter of Opinion: Arab Spring in Context by Gladius Maximus
December 30, 2012: Afghanistan: Already A Lost Cause
December 31, 2012: Obama’s Syria Policy (Or Lack Thereof)
2013 Blog Posts
January 1, 2013: New Year’s Challenge: How many Hillary Policy Successes Can You Name?
January 3, 2013: Multiculturalism My Way
January 3, 2013: A day late and a dollar short…..
January 4, 2013: Napoleon’s Footprints
January 5, 2013: Putin By A Mile
February 7, 2013: Who Is A Terrorist???
February 20, 2013: Military Expertise: Maybe Not So Much
February 20, 2013: Link To Opinion Piece: – “Women in Foxholes”
February 22, 2013: Remembering Why
March 4, 2013: Our Ever Useful Idiots
March 7, 2013: Soviet MIA Soldier Found Alive In Afghanistan
March 7, 2013: Hillary’s Top Achievements
March 13, 2013: Our Pacific Commander Prepares for Global Warming
March 20, 2013: As the world churns, where does the US stand?
April 3, 2013: A Few Links On North Korea’s Strategy
April 4, 2013: KT McFarland’s Excellent Analysis on the North Korean Crisis
April 9, 2013: Margaret Thatcher: a true transformational leader
April 10, 2013: Mark Helprin’s Excellent Article On Obama’s Foreign Policy
April 10, 2013: Equal Opportunity For Dummies, Courtesy Of US Army
April 18, 2013: Fearless reporting continues…. well, I’ll report and you can decide
April 27, 2013: Boston Marathon Questions Swirl
May 1,2013: Christians The Latest Obama Target
May 10, 2013: Just the facts, please….
May 25, 2013: America at the crossroads
May 25, 2013: Remember the cost of freedom
May 29, 2013: The Mom World Peace Solution
June 2, 2013: The GOP policy maverick rides again (unfortunately)
June 4, 2013: Military leadership 101: Set the standard
June 10, 2013: NSA Junk Mail Folders
June 17, 2013: The emperor and his metadata robe (Diana West’s perfect metaphor)
June 18, 2013: Global Zero: Another Nothing-burger Plan
June 20, 2013: Paving the path to Peace
June 23, 2013: Sweet land of liberty…..(or land of the gullible?)
June 28, 2013: Excellent opinion piece on our nuclear arsenal
June 30, 2013: The Pretty in Pink American Foreign Policy
July 9, 2013: The “zero option”
July 11, 2013: Beyond the long arm of the law
August 28, 2013: Our strategic-thinking deficit (Obama &the girls at work)
August 28, 2013: A Serious Strategic Question For the Iran Faction Proponents
September 2, 2013: Send in the clowns, oh wait, they’re here….
September 3, 2013: Stumbling upon some facts in less than 5 minutes…
September 4, 2013: Our flat on our back strategy
September 8, 2013: President Obama: Defining his foreign policy big picture
September 12, 2013: Institute for the Study of War fires Elizabeth O’Bagy
September 13, 2013: The journey continues
September 14, 2013: A face-saving exercise
September 15, 2013: Oh, those pesky “facts”
September 18, 2013: Stealing an Arkie blog post
September 18, 2013: Gladius predicts end game: Russia 10; US 1
September 19, 2013: Hillary might need to invest in a broom factory
September 22, 2013: Benghazi ARB Report: Bird Cage Liner or Probing Investigation?
September 24, 2013: The epitome of macho manliness
September 27, 2013: John McCain staff requirement – just be a liar
September 28, 2013: A strong tonic for America
October 4, 2013: Obama’s raiders launch firebombing campaign (laughter is the best defense)
October 8, 2013: General Hayden, what a laugh…
October 9, 2013: G. Murphy Donovan: “The Decline and Fall of National Security”
October 19, 2013: Following the map to American irrelevancy
October 21, 2013: It’s called the Second Oldest Profession for a reason
October 23, 2013: On the march with some old Romans
October 24, 2013: More of Malcolm’s links
October 28, 2013: Just because you can, doesn’t mean you should
November 5, 2013: Alas Babylon by Kinnison
November 11, 2013: Eggs Benedict
November 17, 2013: Educating Comrades
2014 Blog Posts
January 2, 2014: Interesting Stratfor Article
January 4, 2014: “the best opportunity to succeed” (code for lower standards)
January 5, 2014: Some more links
January 8, 2014: Sans context: America’s foreign policy adrift
January 11, 2014: Our Gumby really does have feet of clay…..
January 20, 2014: Israel hunkers down
February 8, 2014: One life
February 9, 2014: The Russians, the lone wolf brothers and the Wolves of Islam pack
February 11, 2014: Another Benghazi Report
February 14, 2014: A Map
February 15, 2014: Someone else says Saturday
February 16, 2014: Through a smudged looking glass
February 21, 2014: Just links
February 22, 2014: An outsider look at Ukraine
February 23, 2014: Connecting a few dots
February 23, 2014: Another dot
February 23, 2014: Max Fisher on Ukraine ethnic/political divide
February 26, 2014: In full retreat
March 1, 2014: Flubbering about on the world stage……again
March 2, 2014: Putin: the geopolitical adventure capitalist
March 8, 2014: Lord Tennyson’s famous poem
March 9, 2014: How to become a Ukraine expert in 5 minutes
March 10, 2014: Theodore Dalrymple’s Excellent Essay
March 11, 2014: Selfskies…..
March 11, 2014: Stratfor’s Geopolitical Weekly (Ukraine polarization)
March 12, 2014: A few US military funding links
March 20, 2014: Brain-sucking spiders
March 24, 2014: Who will defend our castle?
March 25, 2014: Just links
March 27, 2014: When in doubt, listen to George Friedman
March 27, 2014: The Orient Express….
March 29, 2014: A picture paints a thousand words….
April 3, 2014: Putin/Palin chat
April 6, 2014: Rainy day news
April 7, 2014: Stay tuned
April 22, 2014: News slop
May 2, 2014: Dude, this was like two years ago…
May 5, 2014: Quick Ukraine Update
May 14, 2014: #AmericanPaperTiger
May 14, 2014: You owe them your freedom
May 24, 2014: Reporting while under the influence….enter at your own rick;-)
May 25, 2014: We here must speak of heroes
May 28, 2014: Mr. President, “You didn’t build that!”
May 31, 2014: Repaid in kind
June 1, 2014: Obama’s Libyan circus caravan rolls on
June 1, 2014: “A good soldier in standing”
June 2, 2014:‘Working to free all Guantanamo prisoners’ tweet from account of released soldier’s father deleted
June 2, 2014: Don’t Back Down From The Sharks (Admiral William H. McRaven)
June 2, 2014: Reading the Three Cups of Tea leaves
June 2, 2014: Susan Rice: Bergdahl Served With Honor and Distinction / Weekly Standard
June 2, 2014: Ambassador Susan Rice: Libya Attack Not Premeditated
June 3, 2014: “Five-sided Kennel of Cowardice” by Russ Vaughn
June 3, 2014: Military jargon 101 or Portrait of courage (not)
June 3, 2014: The Bowe Bergdahl POW videos
June 3, 2014: Recommended reading: In From the Cold post
June 4, 2014: Another lie?
June 4, 2014: They embraced it
June 4, 2014: Undue Command Influence
June 5, 2014: The Choices We Make
June 5, 2014: A short piece by Stanley McChrystal
June 6, 2014: D-Day, 6 June 1944
June 7, 2014: Enemies, both foreign and domestic
June 8, 2014: Spin continues
June 8, 2014: Abandoned in Afghaistan?
June 9, 2014: Bergdahl Could Receive 300K in Retroactive Pay/Military.com
June 9, 2014: Some VA information
June 11, 2014: Another Obama “ending the war”
June 13, 2014: Iraqi democracy project implodes
June 13, 2014: Worsening Violence in Iraq threatens Regional Security
June 17, 2014: Is it real or is it memorex…
June 20, 2014: Best advice on Iraq!
June 22, 2014: Obama offers 300 sacrificial lambs to Islamist radicals
June 29, 2014: One American Team
July 3, 2014: MERRY: Iraq’s stern rebuttal to a simplistic neocon vision – Washington Times
July 5, 2014: Bad news updates
July 25, 2014: Obama’s girls strike again….
August 6, 2014: American Dirge
August 6, 2014: Afghanistan to cost more than Marshall Plan- watchdog says-news-Stripes
August 6, 2014: Pentagon selling-and scrapping-equipment in Afghanistan – Stripes
August 6, 2014: Cowards!
August 9, 2014: Canaries in the mine shaft……still chirping
August 9, 2014: Iraq-ISIL/ISIS and the U.S. Humanitarian Aid Mission by Jim Waurishuk
August 9, 2014: Between 2011 (Libya) and 2014 (Iraq) Obama Appears To Have Found His Pen…
August 9, 2014: Weekly Address: American Operations in Iraq|White House
August 10, 2014: Worse than Nazis by Gene Schwimmer
August 10, 2014: Please define out broader strategy Mr President
August 16, 2014: Ebola update
August 17, 2014: Obama’s mercurial foreign policy
August 19, 2014: Three-star army general to lead legal team for Benghazi Select Committee
August 22, 2o14: Wonderings…
August 23, 2014: It IS what IS is (pssst a Caliphate)
August 23, 2014: A must-read Gates of Vienna blog post
August 23, 2014: We shall know them by their name (s)
August 26, 2014: Rick Moran article on Islamic State
August 28, 2014: Terrorism as Theater
August 28, 2014: The bodies pile up
August 31, 2014: More “experts”, please
September 1, 2014: Mission creep in Iraq continues as US launches airstrikes in Amerli – Threat Matrix.
September 3, 2014: Still mulling over my ISIS plan
September 4, 2014: Patrick Poole vets the Free Syrian Army….
September 6, 2014: Al Qaeda Wasn’t On the Run| The Weekly Standard
September 7, 2014: Let’s not keep shooting elephants to avoid looking a fool
September 11, 2014: As Caliphates Compete, Radical Islam Will Eventually Weaken
September 11, 2014: One hell of a mess
September 13, 2014: The leader from behind goes to war
September 14, 2014: The Kagan battle plan (the “moderate” delusion redux)
September 15, 2014: What generals are talking about
September 21, 2014: Dissecting Obama’s “comprehensive strategy”
September 24, 2014: President Obama Cites White House Legal Authority For War (107-40) Which He Asked For Repeal Two Months Ago…
September 26, 2014: Convenient optics of war
September 27, 2014: Seeking cover from air strikes
September 27, 2014: The Chechen contribution
September 28, 2014: Marching Into battle without foot soldiers….
September 29, 2014: Turkey Must Tread Carefully Against Islamic State
October 2, 2014: Ebola walks in
October 3, 2014: You can’t fool Mother Nature
October 4, 2014: Political potpourri
October 5, 2014: The ebola experts’ crisis response-lots of plans/little action
October 5, 2014: The impolite questions
October 6, 2014: Another Ebola victim – Spain
October 7, 2014: Islamic State expanding?
October 9, 2014: Islamic States used MANPADS to shoot down Iraqi helicopter near Baiji – Threat Matrix
October 10, 2014: Bergdahl update
October 11, 2014: Another half-baked cakewalk
October 12, 2014: Kobani questions abound
October 13, 2014: NBC’s health professional, LOL, OMG, or WTF?
October 17, 2014: Scary Thoughts
October 17, 2014: Is Foggy Bottom working to with terrorists to fight ISIL?
October 20, 2014: “Ebola and the Centers for Dissimulation and Confusion” from the American Thinker
October22, 2014: “A riddle wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma” (the Obama war plan)
October 23, 2014, Evaluating Ebola as a Biological Weapon
October24, 2014: Jihadist training camps proliferate in Iraq and Syria – The Long War Journal
October 25, 2014: Fallout from Somalia still haunts US policy 20 years later – News- Stripes
October30, 2014: Thomas Lifson – On the Natanyahu/Obama kerfluffle
November 5, 2014: U.S.-Armed ‘Vetted Moderate’ Syrian Rebel Groups Surrender, Defect to Al Qaeda
November 16, 2014: Asking the right questions
December 1, 2014: Militarization in America, except for the US Armed Forces
December 7, 2014: President Obama releases more terrorists
December 19, 2014: Not so fast on bashing Sony
December 21, 2014: Another lone wolf home-grown terrorist?
December 22, 2014: “Pyongyang Accepts Hollywood’s Surrender” by G. Murphy Donovan
2015 Blog Posts
January 12, 2015: Journalists and Jihadis at the American Thinker
January 13, 2015: A “counter-narrative”?
January 13, 2015: Rewriting the “counter-narrative”
January 17, 2015: Military justice takes a long winter’s nap
January 21, 2015: A Naked Phrase Goes Clothes Shopping
January 25, 2015: The Yemen “Success” Story in Flames
January 26, 2015: New York Times Discovers Yemen’s “Death to America” Houthi Rebels are Moderates and Possible U.S. Partners
January 27, 2015: Bowe Bergdahl to be charged with desertion
January 28, 2015: “A Tale of Two Soldiers: Benjamin Netanyahu and Caroline Glick” at The American Thinker
January 30, 2015: Truth in advertising…..not
January 31, 2015: Seeking “clarity”
February 4, 2015: The Age of Musterbation
February 5, 2015: A view from across the pond
February 6, 2015: No, Putin Does Not Have Autism
February 7, 2015: Dishonoring a real war hero – another Obama narrative
February 11, 2015: Muslim Brotherhood Official Says White House Official Was Present During Meeting With State Department…
February 11, 2015: The palace guard revolts
February 11, 2015: Hillary Clinton Libya war genocide narrative rejected by U.S. Intelligence – Washington Times
February 16, 2o15: Another excellent GMD analysis
February 21, 2015: Libertybelle learns the rules of the game
February 22, 2015: #Nothing-burger Plan
February 27, 2015: More answers to why jihad
March 12, 2015: GMD breaks down the Islamic threat (a must read)
March 19, 2015: GMD’s latest pearl of wisdom: “The Faces of Foreign Policy Failure”
March 20, 2015: A city-by-city Iraqi mirage
March 27, 2015: Russ Vaughn: “Grounding Bergdahl’s escape turkey”
March 30, 2015: Getting to know “them”
March 30, 2015: Rick Moran: “How screwed up is Obama’s foreign policy”
March 31, 2015: Cultural relativism run amok
April 3, 2015: The new mob rule model
April 7, 2015: All in for “moderates”
April 7, 2015: Top Spy: Hillary’s Emails ‘Likely’ Hacked by China Russia, Iran| The Weekly Standard
April 12, 2015: What happened to the Ebola crisis?
April 17, 2015: Hail to the chief….
April 19, 2015: A real discussion on ISIS
April 21, 2015: Calling for a time-out to regroup
April 21, 2015: Suggested Reading
May 6, 2015: A Short Foreign Policy Primer For Dummies
May 8, 2015: Free thinking: the key to defeating radical Islam
May 8, 2015: I Support Free Speech, but….
May 9, 2015: From the American Thinker: Embracing dhimmihood
May 9, 2015: Cliff Kincaid: “Liberal Media Work With Jihadists
May 9, 2015: Huma Abedin’s Muslim Minority Affairs: Not Just a Journal
May 10, 2015: Follow the money
May 11, 2015: Wise Mom delivers alarming message
May 11, 2015: The dark cloud of agendas and money
May 11, 2015: The “vetted-moderate Syrians” myth exposed
May 11, 2015: Patrick Poole – what an investigative journalist should be!
May 11, 2015: Justice Department link
May 15, 2015: Good news: We might have found copies of Hillary’s emails! Bad news: Foreign governments have them?
May 16, 2015: If we build it; we can fix it
May 18, 2015: Let me count the reasons why….
May 18, 2015: Benghazi/Syria gun-running update
May 18, 2015: Another sighting of Lenin’s ghost
May 19, 2015: In Wake Of Fall Of Ramadi, White House Calls ISIS Strategy A Success – Truth Revolt
May 20, 2015: President Obama……lied again
May 22, 2015: FBI admits Patriot Act snooping powers didn’t crack any major terrorism cases – Washington Times
May 23, 2015: Ralph Peters: Bin Laden Documents Meant To Distract From Ramadi, “Look At Timing”
May 24, 2015: Remembrance
May 25, 2015: #MarieHarfHistoricalFacts
May 25,2015: About the sacrifices
May 25, 2015: ‘Solemn ceremony’: Guess how Hillary paused to reflect today
May 26, 2015: No easy road ahead
May 28, 2015: Report from The Long War Journal
May 29, 2015: A SSI paper on defeating the Islamic State
May 31, 2015: A report on life in the new caliphate
June 7, 2015: Winning my heart and mind
June 13, 201: Lily pads…..
June 14, 2015: Martin van Creveld weighs in on Syria
July 8, 2015: Jade Helm 15 Update
July 11, 2015: Daily Mail report on female ISIS
July 13, 2015: Let’s keep pretending
July 14, 2015: More on transgenders in the military
July 16, 2015: Wolf Blitzer Makes a Fool Of Susan Rice On Iran Funding Terrorists
July 17, 2015: Awaiting the fairy tale White House narrative
July 18, 2015: Has the CINC called the families?
July 19, 2015: Patrick Poole schools the media
July 28, 2015: The Syrian moderate mirage again
July 29, 2015: Patrick Poole’s – Part 2
July 29, 2015: No sacred cows in America
July 31, 2015: Senator Cotton – WOW!
August 5, 2015: A short Mugabe primer
August 8, 2015: Iran: The Big Sell|Foreign Policy Research Institute
August 14, 2015: Cherry-picking intelligence
August 16, 2015: White House Played Role in Iran Deal Letter Signed by Former Flag Officers
August 25, 2015: You’ve got mail… problems
August 25, 2015: What a tangled web we weave
August 28, 2015: The Obama Narrative continues
August 30, 2015: Ex-Army Chief in Britain declared Cameron lacked “balls” to defeat ISIS
August 31, 2015: Wikileaks is a Front for Russian Intelligence
September 1, 2015: What Russian Intelligence Knows About Hillary Clinton
September 7, 2015: Beware of US government and religious charities on refugee crisis
September 8, 2015: A revamped Refugee Resettlement Program needed
September 9, 2015: Who are the feds’ “private contractors” for refugee resettlement?
September 10, 2015: US will take 10,000 Syrian refugees
September 13, 2015: Revisiting the “best opportunity to succeed”
September 14, 2015: Next will be quotas
September 16, 2015: Austin: Only ‘Four or Five’ US-Trained Rebel Fighters Remain In Syria
September 16, 2015: Liars and damned liars!
September 18, 2015: Lunatics running the asylum
September 22, 2015: Birds of a feather and “The Polish Plan”
September 22, 2015: UK Telegraph report
September 24, 2015: Senator Cotton asks the right questions
September 26, 2015: Putin begins his PR campaign
September 26, 2015: Explaining Russia’s True Presence in Syria
September 27, 2015: Charlie Rose interview of Putin
September 27, 2015: No they didn’t; yes they did
September 28, 2015: We’re led by the Captain of the JV team
September 28, 2015: The largest power vacuum in the world
September 29, 2015: I’m shocked I tell you…..
September 30, 2015: Another Russian charade
September 30, 2015: #Hands up, Don’t shoot Vladimir
October 1, 2015: More Obama administration pretzel logic
October 2, 2015: Put on your thinking caps, America
October 4, 2015: Ahrar al Sham claims rocket attacks on airbase where Russians are stationed|The Long War Journal
October 4, 2015: Al Qaeda brigade claims attack on Russian forces in Syria|The Long War Journal
October 4, 2015: NY Times on training foreign fighters
October 5, 2015: Defining the American strategy: REGIONAL STABILITY
October 5, 2015: My bare-bones plan
October 6, 2015: Propaganda at work?
October 6, 2015: Grenada tourist map from 1983
October 6, 2015: More on Hillary’s Libya campaign….
October 7, 2015: The “Bosnia Plan” is a bust
October 8, 2015: Another ISW map
October 8, 2015: My Plan for the Syria mess inches along
October 9, 2015: Wandering in circles in the desert
October 10, 2015: Ideology breeds lies, deceptions, delusions
October 12, 2015: An idea takes hold…. imagine that
October 14, 2015: Another comment
October 15, 2015: Tried the Left
October 15, 2015: “A prudent and practical measure”
October 16, 2015: Our Generalissimo….. (Lord, help us all)
October 16, 2015: At last: A voice of reason in the strategic wilderness
October 17, 2015: Charles Krauthammer stuck in neocon strategic quagmire
October 17, 2015: Another comment at National Review
October 19, 2015: What’s old becomes new again: REGIONAL STABILITY is back in style…
October 22, 2015: Ambassador Stevens met with Al Qaeda affiliate
October 28, 2015: Obama’s turbulent Mid-East magic carpet ride
October 30, 2015: Mutually assured destruction?
November 3, 2015: Some loose foreign policy threads
November 3, 2015: Adding it up
November 5, 2015: News from amongst the Syrian rebels
November 13, 2015: An ominous bellwether
November 13, 2015: FBI Has Nearly 1,000 Active ISIS Probes Inside U.S.
November 14, 2015: Dead wrong…again!
November 14, 2015: The Barbarians Are Inside The Gate And There Are No Gates
November 14, 2015: Known Wolves Involved
November 17, 2015: The Islamic Civilization Circle of Life
November 19, 2015: Bloomberg’s Carlson: Maybe Terrorists Here Will Become Americanized and Not Kill Us| Truth Revolt
November 22, 2015: Just a matter of time
November 22, 2015: Al Qaeda has not been neutralized|The Long War Journal
November 22,2015: Answering the Syrian refugee question
November 24, 2015: Another tale from the Obama Chronicles
November 24, 2015: Mapping the dots
November 25, 2015: An ambush, not a defensive reaction?
November 29, 2015: Thinking aloud on radical Islam
December 1, 2015: A “get real” approach
December 3, 2015; Just Get Real!
December 6, 2015: Ralph Peters unloads
December 8, 2015: A niggling incongruent bit of information
December 9, 2015: What he should have said
December 16, 2015: Some good reads
December 21, 2015: Inciting terror…
December 26, 2015: Muslim Immigration is Exactly What ISIS Wants|Frontpage Mag
2016 Blog Posts
January 13, 2016: America on its knees
January 16, 2016: The plot thickens runaway narrative, or fatal system error
January 16, 2016: Iran: ‘American Sailors Started Crying After Arrest’
January 16, 2016: America taken for a Persian magic-carpet ride
January 16, 2016: The other side of the “swap”
February 2, 2016: Committing crimes isn’t “great”
February 5, 2016: MORE Chinese Infiltration
February 6, 2016: A Cautionary Tale
February 9, 2016: We still have The Constitution as our rule of law!
February 9, 2016: LB’s guide to profiling
February 11, 2016: Pretty lame propaganda gambits *yawn*
February 16, 2016: When new information comes to light
February 24, 2016: Some global hotspots
March 2, 2016: Update on Navy investigation into captured US sailors
March 5, 2016: Trump “war crime” policy heard around the world
March 6, 2016: An American wake-up call
March 8, 2016: Clinton Hacker Extradited to the U.S.
March 23, 2016: Just some links
March 30, 2016: Cutting through the “fog of war”….maybe
April 8, 2016: Obama’s Syrian refugee program on steroids
April 10, 2016: Obama’s kind of “surge”
April 15, 2016: Another dire U.S. military readiness warning
April 29, 2016: Pentagon Warns of Conflict OverChinese Buildup Over Disputed Islands
April 29, 2016: What wins wars
April 30, 2016: Another Cry In The Wilderness
May 30, 2016: A day to remember
June 8, 2016: More on the “great” General David Petraeus
June 8, 2016: The winds of war blow hotter
June 19, 2016: Obama’s final “transformation”
July 5, 2016: Oh, those “what ifs”
July 12, 2016: More Obama “fundamental transformation”?
July 12, 2016: Escalation of tensions…
July 25, 2016: Putin moves?
July 25, 2016: Happy Trails
July 26, 2016: Does anyone remember Soviet disinformation campaigns?
July 30, 2016: The Pieces of the Media Messaging Puzzle
July 30, 2016: Geesh, Russian active measures….
August 1, 2016: Amen, General Dempsey!
August 7, 2016: #PurpleHeartDay
August 25, 2016: While America watches the 2016 Reality TV Show….
August 30, 2016: French beach police…. but no secure borders….
September 5, 2016: The Russians are coming?
September 15, 2016: What to tell Putin
September 16, 2016: Out of the Mouths of Babes
September 29, 2016: Where do you report a suspicious tweet?
October 4, 2016: The Russian Big Picture (Part 1)
October 11, 2016: Scorched Earth: The Death Match Edition
October 13, 2016: Meow…
October 20, 2016: Repetitive Messaging
November 20, 2016: Obama Pentagon used plagiarized Wikileaks info in report
2017 Blog Posts
January 19, 2017: Russia continues playing chess
February 21, 2017: Speech by Lt. Gen. H.R. McMaster
March 8, 2017: Info War… Russian-style
March 18, 2017: Having your cake and eating it too
March 31, 2017: Learning From Mistakes
April 8, 2017: Coughing up catchphrase strategic hairballs
May 16, 2017: Afghanistan questions
May 17, 2017: Perfect Timing
May 18, 2017: Putin diagnoses “political schizophrenia” in America
May 24, 2017: Information Warfare, both foreign and domestic
June 17, 2017: Nothing new under the sun
June 29, 2017: Easily manipulated or 12-dimensional chess?
August 10, 2017: Tough talk is not strategy
August 12, 2017: No Good Options
August 24, 2017: All leadership boils down to trust
October 11, 2017: The Russians again
October 19, 2017: Mutually Assured Destruction
November 8, 2017: Seeing Russia through your “Windows”
November 25, 2017: “A few leaves of grass” for remembrance
2018 Blog Posts
January 27, 2018: Another Obama national security fail
January 29, 2018: Just a couple links
February 13, 2018: Define “imminent threat”
April 17, 2018 Interesting list of strategic assumptions
June 12, 2018 Trump Sells “North Korean Deal” Snakeoil
June 13, 2018 Trump: Our Russian messaging czar & most useful idiot
June 19, 2018 The smell of a manufactured crisis
July 7, 2018 The odds of Trump making a great deal with Russia
July 15, 2018 Putin already won
July 18, 2018 You ain’t seen nothing yet
July 20, 2018 Interesting read
July 21, 2018 Putin might end up asking for his ball back…
July 22, 2018 A few foreign policy links
October 2, 2018 A few Cyber & Defense links
October 11, 2018 Quest for common American values
November 12, 2018 Veterans Day thoughts
November 16, 2018 Military readiness report raises serious concerns
2019 Blog Posts
February 12, 2019 Color me a skeptic
April 3, 2019 The privacy concerns metastasize
May 27, 2019 Our American Heroes
2020 Blog Posts
January 6, 2020 Trump gives “conventional wisdom” the boot
January 9, 2020 A quick Trump score card on the Iran crisis
August 10, 2020 China’s AI quest fueled by global data acquisition
2021 Blog Posts
May 23, 2021 Is AEMO another Army boondoggle?
May 31, 2021 Proper Respect
August 23, 2021 Biden Afghanistan crisis team same as Obama Benghazi team
October 1, 2021 Social media creates another instant political hero
October 4, 2021 A few more thoughts on the Scheller situation
To be continued…