“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.”

Guest Post: Tame or Be Shredded, by The Male Brain

Guest Post: Tame or Be Shredded, by The Male Brain

Our good friend from Israel, The Male Brain, has very kindly translated another post by a retired Colonel from the Israeli Defence Forces, Tal Braun, for our education and enlightenment. What follows is an abridged and edited version of Col. Braun’s comments on...
Jingoism cannot replace competence

Jingoism cannot replace competence

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...
Wolf law

Wolf law

No, I’m not here to talk about Wolff’s Law, which basically says that if you put the human body under stress in specific ways, the body will react and adapt to it and become stronger. (That, incidentally, is how powerlifters put on vast amounts of muscle...
Didactic Mind, Ep. 82: End of Empire

Didactic Mind, Ep. 82: End of Empire

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...
The great Izzlamic swindle

The great Izzlamic swindle

This week saw the one-year anniversary of the infamous “holes in the narrative” interview that rocked the Izzlamic world to its very core. Given that LRFotS Sasha Hrongmitts has been after me for a while now to follow up on my previous posts about Islam,...
The dragon’s downfall

The dragon’s downfall

If you’ve been paying much attention to the scourge of modrenity over the past few years, you might be forgiven for thinking that the Chinese are going to eat America’s lunch. The never-to-be-sufficiently-cursed whorenalists and presstitutes of the...
Cow-poop vs Kung Flu – WHO YA GOT?!?!

Cow-poop vs Kung Flu – WHO YA GOT?!?!

So there I was the other day, taking a bit of a break between running a bunch of M&A models and figuring out market segmentation for a client, when I ran across a couple of articles that made me sit bolt upright in my chair with shock. You see, there are quite a...
You can’t buy fighting spirit

You can’t buy fighting spirit

Remember what I wrote earlier about how the US military cannot win wars? That is because the US military is fundamentally unserious about the subject of warfighting. To demonstrate this problem, let us observe military recruiting ads from three different powers...