For U.S. imperial strategists, the notorious Afghan graveyard of empires is not an entirely deadbeat loss. As President Biden noted gleefully and cryptically this week, “China has real problems… it will be interesting to see what happens.” The United States may have suffered a shameful, historic defeat in Afghanistan, but there is still a silver…
We all remember 9/11 as we remember so many other days, the Challenger disaster, the Kennedy murders or, for me, the fall of Saigon. For me, 9/11 began a new journey. I had some years ago tried to move my own career from defense and intelligence endeavors to the sane and rational, real work with…
Their strategic partnership stood the test of “Israel’s” latest political transition because it’s mutually beneficial and has successfully diversified beyond the leadership level to encompass their permanent military, intelligence, and diplomatic bureaucracies (‘deep state’). The de facto Russian-”Israeli” alliance that can casually be referred to by the portmanteau “Rusrael” is still strong despite former Prime…
I’ve burned a lot of bridges in my life I didn’t intend to. To describe me as volatile and opinionated is a kindness. On the best of days I’m barely fit for human consumption. Looking back my life can best be described as a series of bad first impressions interrupted by moments of social competence….
Year after year, France suffers defeat in African regions. While still considering itself the rightful master of the continent, Paris cannot accept the fact of loosing control in various African countries. The methods have changed, but the main objectives – the exploitation of African resources and lands – remain the same. From Cameroon to Senegal,…
“The history of medicine is littered with wonderful early results which over a period of time turn out to be not so wonderful – or in fact even adverse…there are a whole string of recent examples where preliminary data led to a lot of excitement and caused changes in clinical practice and then eventually we…
