
Don’t read a news article or blog post if you don’t want to, but don’t “TL;DR” it just because you’re too much of a lazy asshat to bother.
Don’t read a news article or blog post if you don’t want to, but don’t “TL;DR” it just because you’re too much of a lazy asshat to bother.
Aggression by a state, once considered just an act of war, ultimately became viewed as a pathological act. I’ve been re-reading Sir Lawrence Freedman’s landmark work The Evolution of Nuclear Strategy (Third […]
America’s permanent war policy is a reflection of WWII movies, which offered an unrealistic vision of war’s motivations, consequences My Depression-born parents raised me in a rural idyll during the Eisenhower years. […]
Apparently Hitler seems to have forgotten that eliminating Jews would cause a crippling brain drain from Germany. There are many parallels between Hitler and Stalin. On the personal level, they both liked […]
Starting on November 17, the British launched the single most intensive bombing attack on a city in World War II. Despite the lack of a world war since and the Nuremberg Trials, […]
Why did the United States feel the need to admit Baltic and Eastern Europeans who at times exceeded the Nazis in brutality? Lost count of the sordid episodes in America’s past? In […]
Mental Illness a Prerequisite to Run for Public Office It’s unbelievable what people would do to be in power. I know: It happens everywhere. I can’t believe that normal people in their […]
As landlocked as it is, some 650 miles from the Atlantic and 1830 miles from the Pacific, Indianapolis isn’t the first place I think of when I think of battleships. Then again, […]
Today is the day we honor the men and women who died in our nation’s wars. I’d like to honor three very different World War II vets today by telling you my […]