“We are Forerunners. Guardians of all that exists. The roots of the Galaxy have grown deep under our careful tending. Where there is life, the wisdom of our countless generations has saturated the soil. Our strength is a luminous sun, towards which all intelligence blossoms… And the impervious shelter, beneath which it has prospered.”
Touching on the legacy of September 11, 2001, is likely a sore subject for many of my readers, and I wouldn’t blame anyone for reacting negatively for the fact that I’m posting eye-candy the day before the 20th anniversary of the single worst domestic...
Our good friend, The Male Brain, sent over a very interesting article in response to my previous post about how the West can conceivably win against guerrilla warfighters. Below is his translation of an excerpt from an article written 6 years ago by Brigadier General...
Anyone who has ever visited Singapore knows that it is a truly amazing place – which, by rights, shouldn’t exist. It is an island basically without resources which is essentially just “a pimple on the arse-end of Malaysia”, as my high school...
The image that you see above is iconic because it shows everything you need to know about guerrilla warfare in a single picture. Guerrilla wars demonstrate better than any other the three levels of warfare identified by Martin Van Creveld, William S. Lind, and other...
The Didactic Mind podcast is finally BACK – after a 3-week or so delay, much to my regret, due to various (quite pleasant, actually) circumstances in my personal and professional life. The elapsed time has, however, proven fruitful, because a number of...
It is Monday again, and where I am, the summer weather has FINALLY woken up and realised that it is, in fact, time for the Sun to shine and temperatures to rise. This, after many weeks of weather that ranged from mild to miserable. We’ve got one last gasp of...
A few years back, our good friend The Male Brain brought an internet flame-war to my attention that I thought merited its own post. Normally, I could not care less about such silliness. But the flame-war in question concerned a man who used to be a pretty big deal in...
This week’s Scripture selection comes to us courtesy of our good friend, The Male Brain, who sent over this classic passage from Deuteronomy and provides us with clear instructions as to our primary focus in life: 11 “You shall therefore love the Lord your God...
Gentlemen, this has been a difficult week for those of us who believe in truth, honour, and basic decency. We are watching the world as we knew it, collapsing before our eyes. I have often wondered what my Russian friends must have felt, watching the Soviet Union...
The legendary atheist scientist, Stephen Hawking – y’know, the chap who invented time – prefaced his most famous book with an old story about how people can’t see the truth even when it stares them in the face. Here is the version of the story...
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