“Our landings in the Cherbourg-Havre area have failed to gain a satisfactory foothold and I have withdrawn the troops. My decision to attack at this time and place was based upon the […]
Overlord
In Memoriam
Most of what I write here is written because I enjoy expressing myself in the medium of words. And I think that sometimes, the things I write might be worth the time […]
These 20 Years
20 years ago today I walked across the stage at Navy-Marine Corps Memorial Stadium in Annapolis and received my diploma and commissioning certificate from then Defense Secretary William Cohen. Tucked neatly inside […]
Winter is Over…
I didn’t start Watching Game of Thrones until it had reached its sixth season. Like many outsiders, I’d grown tired of all the cryptic tweets and Facebook posts and for years had […]
Some Thoughts on the Recent Alabama Legislation
The most commonly stated cases for either side of the pro-life/pro-choice debate do nothing to counter the most commonly stated cases for their counter arguments. That an unborn child has rights worthy […]
The New Risks of Integrated Competition
The curtain on the second act of the original American drama fell at Gettysburg. Four score and seven years earlier, the audience of history had been introduced to the cast of characters […]
The End Game
We can’t live without the stories we tell ourselves about our lives. That we tell them is as consistent across time, space and culture as the physical makeup of our biology. Our […]
Lies Matter
I had a classmate at the Naval Academy who once gave a less than honest reason for missing a class on the form they made us fill out whenever we missed a […]
The Future of Capitalism
Humans and other great apes share a common ancestor. Somewhere between four and 13 million years ago, a spread we could fit a few thousand western civilizations in, our species branched out […]
On Service
Early one morning in June of 2005 I received a panicked phone call from the wife of a friend of mine. She asked me if I had any information on the rumors […]
