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    Seapower and National Security

    by Navy Capt. Peter O'Brien On the north side of a runway, at an airfield about 60 miles west of Gdansk, Poland, about 10 miles...

    Victory Planned

    by Navy Capt. (Ret) Peter O'Brien President Zelenskyy has now briefed President Biden, former President Trump, Vice President Harris, most of the heads of state...

    Unambiguous Ambiguity

    Tsar Vlad I is in the news again, talking about nuclear weapons. The news media reports he has changed his nuclear policy but I...

    To Amend #2

    by Navy Capt (Ret) Peter O'Brien Here are two more amendments to chew on (you have only one more week to suffer through this). I...

    To Amend

    by Navy Capt. (Ret) Peter O'Brien I have a good friend, a very smart good friend, who suggests that we as a nation are unlikely...

    Tim Wilson Discusses Security Issues on Epoch TV’s International Reporters Roundtable

    Project Sentinel Distinguished Fellow Tim Wilson joined Epoch TV's International Reporters Roundtable on July 28th to discuss Security issues after the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump at a public rally in Butler, PA as well as major breaches with the Olympic games in Paris

    Strategic Lessons

    Ukraine has the simple and horrible problem of geography. Strictly speaking, it's not a strategic mistake as much as it is just an uncomfortable fact. If you wander through history you will find that countries without hard borders - a nasty mountain range, a raging river, perhaps an ocean - always have troubles with neighbors.

    Place Your Bets

    The attempted assassination of former President Trump has now had a chance to settle in just a bit, and in capitals around the world I would suspect that there are senior planning teams taking out their portfolios and looking at their assumptions.

    More Lessons Learned

    We are 120 weeks into the war in Ukraine, a peace conference begins in a week in Switzerland (at which only one side is represented), and the war continues to evolve.

    A CENTURION’S CENTENNIAL

    May 19 marked one hundred years since the passing of a great Jewish scholar and poet, Abraham Elijah Kaplan (1891-1924). His father had been a celebrated scholar, who had passed away in his 30s, leaving young Abraham fatherless. His father’s best friends was Rabbi Isser Zalman Meltzer (1870-1953), who saw to it that the son was well educated in the schools of Lithuania. Abraham studied under great Jewish thinkers and by his late 20s and early 30s he had written several beautiful essays in scholarly journals.

    Yangtze Patrol – Memorial Day 2024

    Memorial Day is the day we stop and think about the 1,355,000 Soldiers, Sailors, Marines, Airmen, and Coast Guardsmen who have died while in service to the nation. But, one of the things about Memorial Day that always bothers me is that, while the Soldiers and Sailors and Airmen and Marines who died in the major wars are remembered (though even then the focus is on the major battles, not the lesser known ones), the casualties in lesser wars and skirmishes are mostly forgotten and the Sailor or Marine who dies in some skirmish outside of a war is nearly completely forgotten. 

    Strategic Bombing and Gentle War

    Much of the modern way of war springs from the writings of 4 men from the 1920s: Gen. Giulio Douhet, LtGen. Walther Wever, Marshal Hugh Montague “Boom” Trenchard, and of course, Col. Billy Mitchell.All were believers in “strategic bombing,” the idea that bombing the right targets would destroy morale while also destroying industrial capacity and disabling lines of communication, and drive any nation to surrender.Over the years the theory, particularly in the west, has undergone some modifications

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