I never thought trading insults with friends as a teen while playing "Risk" would become America's political reality today. Thanks, Trump! Donald Trump, Insulter-in-Chief, by Bracing Views open.substack.com/pub/bracingvie…

$37 trillion and counting! Remember When the Balanced Budget Amendment Was A Thing?, by Bracing Views open.substack.com/pub/bracingvie…

The Mongol Military System open.substack.com/pub/technology…

Happy 4th of July, by Bracing Views open.substack.com/pub/bracingvie…

Let us speak of acts of nature, aggravated by man, not of acts of God. Catastrophic Flooding in Texas, by Bracing Views open.substack.com/pub/bracingvie…

Notes and thoughts about warfare in the Middle Ages Technology and Medieval Warfare open.substack.com/pub/technology…

Strange days in America "Jew-Hater", by Bracing Views open.substack.com/pub/bracingvie…

It's a ghastly truth that genocide can be profitable. "There is no America, there is no democracy", by Bracing Views open.substack.com/pub/bracingvie…

Orwell's "1984" wasn't meant as a how-to guide Appeasing the Military-Industrial Complex, by Bracing Views open.substack.com/pub/bracingvie…

Agincourt, a battle that proves that tactics and smarts often matter more than numbers The Battle of Agincourt open.substack.com/pub/technology…

Trump has not come to drain the swamp--he is the swamp. Trump Can't Drain the Swamp--He Is the Swamp, by Bracing Views open.substack.com/pub/bracingvie…

When neocons like Condoleezza Rice applaud your policies, watch out: smoking guns just may become mushroom clouds The Russia-Ukraine War Goes On and On, by Bracing Views open.substack.com/pub/bracingvie…

Nuclear disarmament, not rearmament, is the only sensible policy Trinity, 80 Years Later, by Bracing Views open.substack.com/pub/bracingvie…

It's so bloody awful The Gaza Catastrophe, by Bracing Views open.substack.com/pub/bracingvie…

America Needs an Intervention, by Bracing Views open.substack.com/pub/bracingvie…

Thoughts on the gunpowder revolution in warfare Siege Warfare and Cannons from c.1450-1789 open.substack.com/pub/technology…

Finally it's OK to say what was obvious in October 2023 It's Now OK to Say Israel Is Conducting a Genocide, by Bracing Views open.substack.com/pub/bracingvie…

Exactly what is wrong with the Democratic Party What a Mainstream Democratic Senator Talks Like, by Bracing Views open.substack.com/pub/bracingvie…

We can have nice things again--if we stop empowering the warmongers among us. Persistent, Pernicious, Perpetual, and Permanent War, by Bracing Views open.substack.com/pub/bracingvie…

Horrific and shameful. What's Really Happening at Gaza Food Distribution Sites, by Bracing Views open.substack.com/pub/bracingvie…