[October 24, 2026] Your clothes are not exactly for you; they’re more for other people. In any social setting, your clothing is a gesture of respect to others. You certainly don’t want to look like someone who would have people run away from, who see you for the first time. The Rule is to dress well. Dress well… Read More »
[October 22, 2026] In our modern society, we hear talk that wives should never “submit to” their husbands; and that those who do are acquiescing to a form of “slavery.” The implication would be that wives are inherently subordinate or inferior to their husbands. That’s a modern, feminist exaggeration, and it misreads both biblical text and history alike.… Read More »
[October 21, 2026] Failure is not the enemy. That statement runs against the grain of how most people actually live. They treat a defeat as a catastrophe to be avoided, or as proof that their entire enterprise was mistaken from the start. The practical consequence is that they keep their aims deliberately vague. If the target is never… Read More »
[October 20, 2026] As noted in earlier articles (links here and here), I’m laying out the major elements, strategies, and inner-workings of the Iraq War as we approached the “Surge.” We were undergoing Base Development for a large increase in troop and equipment strength. The idea is that I will later turn this into a manuscript or book.… Read More »
[October 19, 2026] The first time you make your mother cry, something has shifted in you. It is not just that you feel bad. Feeling bad is easy, and most of the time it changes nothing. What has happened is that you have registered, for the first time, that your actions directly affected someone else; the person who… Read More »
[October 17, 2026] Unpredictable events, good or bad, hit people, organizations, and whole societies harder than anyone planned for. After the fact, someone always calls the outcome destiny. That is hindsight talking. We cannot predict these events. But we can build habits and systems that let us absorb the bad ones and use the good ones. Nassim Nicholas… Read More »
[October 13, 2026] I finally decided it was time to review my time in the Iraq War, during the most contentious and most successful part during the war: late 2006 to 2007. Today, my subject will be the organization called MNSTC-I. “One advantage of hindsight is being able to pull current historical documents and align them with what we… Read More »
[October 10, 2026] The fool is the humble beginner willing to look stupid, make mistakes, and start anew. It’s the predecessor to mastery, transformation, and the hero/savior; the opposite of hedonistic avoidance. Be willing to look stupid. “[The trickster] is a forerunner of the saviour… He is both subhuman and superhuman, a bestial and divine being, whose chief… Read More »
[October 9, 2026] One advantage of hindsight is being able to pull current historical documents and align them with what we thought we knew in the past. I am compiling a collection of notes on the Iraq War “Surge,” and I’ll later publish them as a manuscript. That publication is targeted for next year, 2027. In the meantime,… Read More »
[October 8, 2026] Victor Davis Hanson’s September 28, 2026 commentary for The Daily Signal, “If Iran Cracks, the World Will Never Be the Same,” has a number of interesting ideas about our war with Iran. And, yes, it is a “war.” Because of its length, his core ideas and my analysis will run in two parts. Today, in… Read More »