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"This anarchy will not stand," President Donald Trump told his Fort Bragg, North Carolina, audience of Green Berets, Rangers and 82nd Airborne Division paratroopers -- the disciplined cadre of America's XVIII Airborne Corps sitting in the grandstands.

The anarchy Trump condemned is/was in Los Angeles, on the west side of America's fruited ...Read more

Bravo to Ukraine for its "New Model Trojan Horse."

Homer's Greek warriors slipped from a wooden horse to open Troy's gates and start the bloodbath that ended a 10-year war.

Ukraine cleverly and stealthily shipped wooden crates deep inside Russian territory, 1,500 kilometers into Siberia. The truck-borne crates were finally positioned a short...Read more

What does Russian dictator Vladimir Putin value?

My question's immediate frame of reference: Donald Trump says Ukraine war-waging, ceasefire-dawdling Putin is insane. Moreover, if Putin evades sincere peace negotiations, the Kremlin leader confronts "really bad things" and, ultimately, is "playing with fire."

"Really bad things" is a ...Read more

On May 14, Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick received a letter written by Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) and James Risch (R-Idaho) -- and co-signed by 11 other senators and four members of the House.

The letter is a big political punch with strategic information purpose.

Cotton chairs the Senate Intelligence Committee and Risch the Senate ...Read more

Commerce Over Chaos!

That's Donald Trump's MidEast strategy expressed as a peace and prosperity sound bite.

Will the sound bite bumperstick in reality?

Historical hint it might: ARAMCO: Arabian-American Oil Company (now Saudi ARAMCO, but, as Shakespeare asked, what's in a name?).

ARAMCO's a wealth and energy-producing historical stick that...Read more

In a column written this past February, I listed four unsettled wars "frozen" under a nuclear shadow: 1) India vs. China in the Himalayas. 2) North Korea threatening South Korea and Japan -- speculating South Korea and Japan could have their own nuclear weapons in 72 hours. 4) Israel vs. Iran. Israel's nukes will work. Tehran currently calls ...Read more

On April 28, a critical "instability" disrupted electrical power grids in Spain, Portugal and parts of France. Extensive blackouts lasted for hours.

Initial reports speculated over-reliance on intermittent wind and solar electrical technologies share part of the blame.

Whatever the cause, the widespread power loss in three first-world ...Read more

In a column published June 12, 2019, I wrote, "I think 50 years from now, historians will argue that between 2000 and 2016, communist China decided to target America as an adversary ... Beijing saw America in retreat and entertained visions of global dominance."

Examples of American retreat: 1) continuing to offshore manufacturing industries,...Read more

Our murky, blood-soaked moment in time demands a new look at geopolitics -- specifically, what constitutes a strategically valuable position that in human terms is worth expending immense wealth and/or using violence to obtain or deny.

Understand the violence option means risking soldier sons' and daughters' lives in the struggle. Post-...Read more

The best time to fight a war is when you can win it.

Believing America is still economically innovative and its domestic market the world's biggest, the Trump administration has declared war on Big Debt (U.S. national debt). It is simultaneously pushing for the rapid revival and "reshoring" of the nation's withered, spotty and dangerously ...Read more

In mid-February, a firm representing a Democratic Republic of the Congo legislator contacted several U.S. officials. The recipients included Secretary of State Marco Rubio.

The letter sketched a sub-Saharan version of President Donald Trump's Ukraine minerals peace initiative. Would the U.S. be interested in acquiring or investing in Congo's ...Read more

The news hook title isn't as crisp as World War II's "Loose Lips Sink Ships." It does send the relevant 21st-century message that digital communication systems have security flaws enemies can exploit to gather critical information.

WWII's brilliant rhyme warned that loose talk in a New York bar could tell Nazi spies where to position U-boats ...Read more