Trapped people. 2.5 million refugees. Mass graves. THIS IS 2022. This is human atrocity. And, the US watches Ukraine resist while straddling a line between humanitarian support and proxy engagement. Is this sustainable? And, how long will Ukraine exist? Tonight, Ukrainians batten down the hatches in Kiev as the clock…

The Battle of Bull Run- July 21st, 1861- the first big battle of the Civil War.

Security is achieved not only by military means but by the whole of the American economy. In national security, the economy is both the enabler and the constraint. -Congressional Research Service, 2011 3/9/22: Debt = 30 trillion dollars Inflation = 7.5% Gas = $4.26 a gallon A 2011 paper by…

The Economic Impact of a Plague Bizarre how pandemics alter the universe. Exhibit A: The United States, April 2020 *Exhibit B: The US, September 2020 *A: The price of crude oil = negative $37.63/barrel *B: September= roughly $43/barrel *A: US total deaths from COVID-19 =17,229 *B: September=177,177 *A: US unemployment = 18% *B: September=8.4% *A: US…

This past month, the funeral of Queen Elizabeth II displayed the sacrosanct traditions of the British monarchy to billions of viewers around the world. From the sacred music to the formality of those 140 sailors pulling her coffin down the road to Windsor, the event celebrated a queen whose seventy…

Today, the nation remembers 9/11. The attacks were the catalyst for the twenty year War on Terror that is the longest war in US history. The conflict played out across the globe in places like Iraq and Afghanistan, the latter where over 800,000 military men and women served during the…

Adolph Hitler said, “Demoralize the enemy from within by surprise, terror, sabotage, assassination. This is the war of the future.” How to restore order in a post-pandemic America is the question of the hour. A global pandemic expanded federal authority, eclipsed civil liberties, canceled culture, unschooled children and killed millions…

Tonight is President Joe Biden’s State of the Union address. With the shadow of Ukraine looming over the speech, social media is lit up with support for the nation’s struggle against the Russian invasion. Draping lawns with Ukrainian flags, liking hundreds of posts about Ukrainian patriotism, and posting endless tiles…

The Impact of a War — The Civil War (1861–1865) ripped the nation apart and cost over 620,000 lives, approximately 2% of the population (what today equals six million people).