by Didact | May 2, 2016 | Uncategorized
These days, it’s a $1.2 BILLION bomber I finished reading The 4th Generation Warfare Handbook by William S. Lind and Lt. Col. Gregory A. Thiele (USMC) a few days ago. It was a rather interesting distillation of wisdom and ideas from two of the finest...
by Didact | Apr 20, 2016 | Uncategorized
Of late, I have been fielding a bunch of requests from current and former students of my Master’s programme to share with them whatever pearls of wisdom I have picked up over my career. Most of this is of course opportunistic; the professional cynic in me knows...
by Didact | Apr 11, 2016 | Uncategorized
This here is a classic post that my Singaporean counterpart wrote up about three years back. It’s every bit as relevant today as it was back then, given what all has happened since the day that he wrote it. Since I do not have permission to reprint it in its...
by Didact | Apr 8, 2016 | Uncategorized
I do not often think upon death. Neither do most young men; after all, as our elders are so fond of reminding us, we think we are invincible. Yet, as a recent and rather good article over at RoK points out, the only absolute certainty in life is that we are all going...
by Didact | Mar 28, 2016 | Christianity, Uncategorized
After the Sabbath, at dawn on the first day of the week, Mary Magdalene and the other Mary went to look at the tomb. 2 There was a violent earthquake, for an angel of the Lord came down from heaven and, going to the tomb, rolled back the stone and sat on...
by Didact | Mar 24, 2016 | Uncategorized
Several years back, Bill Whittle produced what I consider to be one of his all-time classic video commentaries, on the difference between Alpha and Beta males. In that video, “Beta Nation”, he outlined precisely why it is that, no matter where you look, no...
by Didact | Mar 16, 2016 | Christianity, Uncategorized
LTC Kratman’s latest column is up at EveryJoe.com, and as usual he takes no (feminist) prisoners this time either: You see, it is the greatest mark of the intellectual inadequacy of the modern feminist that she, all intellectual-like, forgets or ignores...
by Didact | Mar 15, 2016 | Uncategorized
If you are looking for an entertaining “coming-of-age” story with plenty of crazy adventures, implausible characters, hot bitchy women, and gripping stories of what it means to take a flimsy little raft straight into the teeth of some of the scariest...
by Didact | Mar 14, 2016 | Uncategorized
Hopefully this will be as “New Age” as this blog EVER gets The ancient Greeks had a philosophical concept known as telos, which very loosely translated means something like “end”, “purpose”, or “goal”. Another way to...
by Didact | Feb 17, 2016 | Uncategorized
Am I the only one who notices the unnaturally gigantic head on that guy? You know how the Baby Boomer generation’s motto went something like, “Don’t trust anyone over thirty”? Well, as far as Millennials are concerned, the appropriate phrase...
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