April 2, 2025 The US is clearly massing military forces for what many experts believe will be a full-bore attack on Iran. The big question, is this a part of President Trump’s usual negotiating strategy of bluff and bluster or the opening moves in a major war campaign against Iran? […]
March 24, 2025 Switzerland. ‘Fight to the last cartridge, then use your bayonets!’ Gen. Henri Gulsan So warned the retired US general Ben Hodges in an interview with the newspaper SonntagsBlick. Hodges was the former US military commander in Europe. Before frightened Swiss start moving their gold and cows to […]
March 7, 2025 Professor Parkinson was so right. In the 1950s, a mild-mannered British naval historian named Cyril Northcote Parkinson stuck a devastating blow against bureaucracy. His crucial analysis is even truer today than when The Economist published it in 1955. Work (in government) expands to fill available time for […]
