“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.”
If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every...
Commenter Sasha Hrongmitts had a rather interesting follow-up question to my last post about the early history of Islam: Are you sure the Persian Empire used Arabs as troops against the Byzantines? I could be mistaken, but I thought one of the reasons the Arabs were...
Monday is here again, and as usual it’s just SUCKAGE. But one good thing about Mondays is, of course, the fact that it allows us all to indulge in the Great Mondaydact Browser Buster. As longtime reader lynch once told me, he enjoys seeing whether or not his...
This week’s podcast is up, and once again I got the track number wrong right at the beginning of it, but we shall carry on regardless. This is Episode 46, not 45, and it’s all about 4th Generation Warfare as applied on the streets of America: As always, if...
5 For we know that if the tent that is our earthly home is destroyed, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens. 2 For in this tent we groan, longing to put on our heavenly dwelling, 3 if indeed by putting it on[a] we may not be...
This Friday is a rough one for Men of the West everywhere. As I said in my earlier post, the world as we knew it ended 19 years ago today. We’ve been living with the consequences ever since. The price paid in blood and treasure since 9/11 has been horrifically...
September 11th, 2001. Quite literally the day that the world, as we knew it, ended. Think of where you were on that day. Every single one of you older than the age of about, oh, 8, will remember perfectly. If I ask you what you thought on that day, 19 years ago, you...
In his dialogue “De re publica,” Marcus Tullius Cicero explained, through the fictionalized voice of Scipio Africanus, that there are three basic types of government. The first is the monarchy, in which the king rules. The second is the aristocracy, in...
Listeners to my podcast will recall that I did a two-part series a few weeks ago called “One Man, One Book”, examining the historicity of the so-called “Religion of Peace”. I did it a bit bassackwards, and I’ll cop to that without...
There is an old story about NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, which I might have mentioned somewhere on the blog before – I can’t remember exactly when or where, that does tend to happen when you’ve written something approaching 3,000 posts...
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