It remains too early to determine how the recent Hamas attack against Israel will play out. The end result won't be understood for months...

This post is a reaction to something I read on LinkedIn. I am posting a response here, to be later posted to LinkedIn, because there...

It's election season—a time for big promises, unending political ads, and saber-rattling. The target of this year’s saber-rattling is...

Where to begin with this extremely complex and important issue? I admit that I am not a journalist, a student of journalism, or a media...

I must apologize for not being on my blog for several months. I had a sudden illness and was out of action for a long time. It has taken...

In its simplest form the current drama surrounding TikTok, the wildly popular social media platform, centers on concerns over China's...

It is now twenty years since our ill-fated invasion of Iraq, a decent amount of time to begin seriously studying the events and outcomes....

Last Friday, March 10, 2023, Iran and Saudi Arabia signed an agreement to restore diplomatic relations after several years of suspension....

The recent kidnapping of four Americans in Mexico and the murder of two of those Americans has created a hue and cry in the United...

Coups, assassinations, clandestine radio stations, economic warfare, insurgency, and counterinsurgency are all the stuff of covert action....

Tenor As we enter 2023 we are focused and consumed by events in Ukraine, and rightly so. China and Taiwan also draw attention because of...

In the US we mostly think of WWII starting on December 7, 1941, with the attack on Pearl Harbor. Sometimes we realize that it officially...

iStockphoto Background I grew up with certain impressions of World War II in the Pacific. Paramount was the image of the evil Japanese...

I love history. I read a lot of it, so I thought I would do some posts on things that strike me as interesting from my readings and make...

Depending on your viewpoint, Taoism is a philosophy, religion, or both. A central tenet of Taoism is that Tao, the Way or the Path, is...

Time In 2022 there was a sharp escalation of politically motivated violence in the United States. There were numerous threats against...

As 2022 draws to a close and I look back at the year, I notice the increased amount of instability in many of the major world powers. The...

The United States has always had a two-party system, more or less. Although three have also been-and currently are-other political...

I write this the day before the midterm elections. It is not really about the midterms, though these elections will be extremely...

Our current political crisis continues to roll forward, picking up momentum like a snowball rolling downhill. The divisions in the nation...