“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.”
Most of you are old enough to remember exactly where you were on this day, 20 years ago. It’s not difficult for you to cast your mind back to that awful day. You remember what you felt, and what you saw, and how it seemed as though the entire world had turned...
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 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...
Fred Reed’s columns are often good fun to read, as he has a rather acerbic and highly entertaining style. For those who don’t know anything about him, he is quite a prolific writer. He is a US Marine and Vietnam veteran, who was severely wounded in the...
Former Task Unit Bruiser commander Jocko Willink put out a video recently in which he pretended to be the Commander in Chief of America, and framed a hypothetical correct and proper response to the catastrophe in Afghanistan: View this post on Instagram A post shared...
The Didactic Mind podcast is back to something approaching a sort-of-regular schedule again, and this week’s episode is all about the sudden and quite dramatic collapse of America’s failed Syracuse Expedition in Afghanistan. I talk about the roots of its...
If you attempted to access the website of Our Beloved and Dreaded Supreme Dark Lord (PBUH) Vox Day the Most Merciless and Terrible, you will undoubtedly have noticed the graphic above when you land on his page. Special thanks to reader and friend JohnC911 for bringing...
This Sunday I spoke with an old friend and longtime reader, JohnC911. He had asked me to make another guest appearance on his podcast, and I was of course very happy to oblige. We spoke for about 2hrs on a wide variety of topics, and honestly we probably could have...
The Didactic Mind podcast is BACK!!! And for this week’s episode – the first in 2 months – I have a highly relevant series of topics lined up to discuss, including: What it is like to have the Coof, or something like it;How to confront the lies of...
I’ve been banging on for a while now about how the US military couldn’t win so much as an egg-and-spoon race at this point, much less an actual shooting war with China or, especially, Russia. Few, if any, of my readers disagree with me – including...
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