China Is Really Number Two

Monday, June 29th, 2009

China's coming on strong while our leaders chase the terrorists across the globe.
Recently much international press fanfare was generated acknowledging that China had replaced Great Britain as the world's fourth largest economy.
Nobody argues nowadays that China has the highest growth rate of industrialized economics posting annual growth rates in excess of 8.5 percent according to [...]

The Nuclear Option And The 4th Crusade

Sunday, June 21st, 2009

“American nuclear forces on global alert” is what CBS dished out as this author awoke on that chilly October morning in 1973 while attending Madison College in Virginia.
This was Nixon’s response to Brezhnev’s announcing the potential deployment of Soviet airborne troops into the midst of the Yom Kippur War in an effort to stop Israel’s [...]

Asymmetric Warfare And Apple Pie

Thursday, March 19th, 2009

Asymmetric warfare is as alien to average 21st century Americans as the Martian landscape.
Yet it is a term more readily heard in the media nowadays promulgated by the nation’s defense planners and used quite frequently in reference to the war on terrorism.
Asymmetric warfare is simply the application of unique, creative, and unconventional methods with the [...]

Why We

Wednesday, March 18th, 2009

While the western world media is focussing its attention on the battles taking place in Afghanistan and Iraq, Africa is being “eaten up” by our old enemies. Islam is forcing its way down from North East Africa towards the equator, while China is moving in from the East, South of the Equator.
In my last paper, [...]