January 24, 2023 The finest modern military thinker, Maj. Gen J.F.C. Fuller, wrote “the true objective of war is not military victory but the peace that follows it.’ Amen. Besotted by tribalism and propaganda, we often forget why we are fighting and what changes the current war will bring. We […]
October 27, 2022 In 1799, Marshall Alexander Suvorov led a Russian army and all its cannons across the Alps in the dead of winter. A plaque near Gotthard still commemorates this epic military feat. In March 1814, Russia’s emperor Alexander I entered Paris at the head of his Imperial Guard, […]
PLAYING WITH MATCHES IS DANGEROUS Truth is always the first casualty of war – and no less so than the current conflict in Ukraine. Russia insists it’s a localized police action to uproot a new Nazi uprising. Ukraine, which has become a US protectorate, insists it’s fighting to halt Russian […]
