An accounting of conventional and limited war in a nuclear age must take guerrilla warfare into account as well. In a sense, whereas one side of the overall warfare coin is conventional warfare when we take the wars of the late 20th and 21st centuries into account, the other side of the coin has very … Continue reading Guerrilla Warfare
Tag: Politics
Stockholm Syndrome
It follows that what is key and essential overall is to not lose sight of the broader war “for the sake of a fine experience.” And of course, allowing the stream to flow was intended to render it “captive” to the kind of frenzied and hysterical and neurotic “passion” that governs and rules over the … Continue reading Stockholm Syndrome
Infamous Liberalism
Liberalism – with its two most basic precepts or pillars of individual freedom on one hand and universal rights on the other hand – was the idea or the package of ideas that governed the political and social life of the modern West before it became tainted with crazed and frenzied money worship and brute … Continue reading Infamous Liberalism
The Making of Russian Strategy
The danger and risk in Washington at the present moment is very much over-expansion on one hand and under-balancing against the Russian threat on the other hand. Moreover, we can go as far back as the Soviet era to understand what Russian objectives and strategies are. Russian strategy possesses “a continuity and a coherence all … Continue reading The Making of Russian Strategy
Balanced Perspectives
For an expert take on what is perhaps the official Russian narrative or perspective, I often turn to Andrei Martyanov in addition to keeping an open ear to what actual Kremlin officials and Russian media have to say. Martyanov is an authoritative source on the official Russian narrative and perspective and an expert military strategist … Continue reading Balanced Perspectives