ArcaMax

Donald Trump's media genius strikes again, this time calling national and international attention to two slowly developing but strategically treacherous threats to North America's military and economic security: 1) Russian and potentially Chinese military and commercial encroachment on the North American Arctic; and 2) an enemy physically and/...Read more

In January 2022, I wrote my first formal annual Strategic Challenges column -- a quick assessment of what I called "strategic challenges to the post-World War II international order." That column listed four Strategic Challenges (big problems). 2023's essay listed five. 2024's added a sixth.

About a month after I wrote the 2022 column, I ...Read more

The Great Drone Hysteria first afflicted New Jersey and New York -- with maybes from Maryland and Virginia. Then California and Nevada residents reported odd airborne night lights -- flickering, hovering, then disappearing.

Airplanes, helicopters and/or authorized drones flying in the night sky?

The WhatEverTheyAre -- these lights and noises...Read more

On July 13, 2024, as he turned to consult a chart, an assassin's bullet grazed the presidential candidate's right ear.

A half-inch to the right -- to be graphic, the bullet hitting the human being's head -- and 2024's biggest news story would be the history-destroying murder of Donald Trump.

The bad guy missed. Instead, we witness the ...Read more

In late summer 2012, Syrian Prime Minister Riyad Hijab denounced his boss, dictator Bashar al-Assad, and fled to Jordan. Hijab also pledged allegiance to what diplomats called "the anti-Assad rebellion," a jumble of ethnic, religious and political groups that actually reflected the fragmented Levantine demographics that breed friction when Syria...Read more

During its Baltic Sea transit, the Chinese merchant ship Yi Peng 3 dropped an anchor -- or at least dragged an anchor-like device with slicing effectiveness.

According to Reuters, the Chinese bulk carrier left a Russian seaport on Nov. 15 and "was responsible for severing the two undersea cables in Swedish economic waters between Nov. 17 and ...Read more

Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy -- at the request of President-Elect Donald Trump -- are looking for high-IQ Americans to address the strategic security threat of Big Debt.

The EV dynamic duo can start with Dwight Eisenhower -- former president of the U.S.

EV: Forget electric vehicle. Elon-Vivek. Far more energy and economically efficient.

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Pete Hegseth has a very fine mind -- a mind strategically informed by a superb military combat record and some 20 years of active duty and reserve Army service. Dodging bullets and crawling through mud at 0200 hours are physically grueling and mentally sobering experiences. A soldier learns firsthand spinmeisters in Congress and the faculty ...Read more

Prepare to toss the common peace negotiation recipes, ceasefire artifices and usual foreign policy nostrums out the window.

When asked about Donald Trump's Ukraine peace plan, that's my hunch in a sentence.

Henry Kissinger said that politics is the art of the possible. The businessman's art of the deal is to create a win-win out of no win. ...Read more

In a recent post discussing shifting U.S. domestic political views, John Hinderaker of Powerlineblog.com noted "that many conservatives have changed their ideology ... in response to events. Pretty much all of us grew up as doctrinaire free traders, but events since the 1980s have convinced many -- including me -- that while free trade is the ...Read more

It's simple, and everybody with common sense gets it. A national border isn't a line on a map. A border is a door -- a door to your nation. Your nation is your home in the broader sense of the term, especially if you respect your state and national laws.

The door to your home, in commonsense terms, means you -- the homeowner with loved ones ...Read more