Several years ago, when I started a wargaming initiative at USNA, my staff from NHHC opposed it and some in leadership asked why we should pursue it when NWC already did it. This is one of the reasons: "PLAN leaders also believe that wargaming can help to strengthen leadership

Finishing the first draft of a chapter, for a collaborative leadership book, comparing the Naval Academy to Starfleet Academy, breaking with this from Federalist No. 10: "the causes of faction cannot be removed; and that relief is only to be sought in the means of controlling its

Former Aide to Hochul and Cuomo Is Charged as Chinese Agent nytimes.com/2024/09/03/nyr…

"charged on Tuesday with acting as an illegal agent of the People’s Republic of China for using her position to further the Chinese government’s interests, including by blocking Taiwanese officials’ access to the governor’s office."

Hooo boy……. How Navy chiefs conspired to get themselves illegal warship Wi-Fi navytimes.com/news/your-navy…

And....this... wired.com/story/us-navy-…

Almost like we need a dedicated legal effort to identify PRC interference in our country… Scary question is how widespread is this sort of thing?

Welcome to another day of American politics #StarTrek #DayoftheDove

Cast Season 33 of DWTS announced. 33 seasons without a single historian, author, or novelist. But they do have a "convicted fraudster."

Perfection

"Ms. Sun blocked Taiwanese officials from having access to the governor’s office, eliminated references to Taiwan and Uyghurs from state communications and quashed meetings with Taiwanese officials, all in an effort to bolster Chinese government positions."

5 SEP 1905 Treaty of Portsmouth, formally ended the Russo-Japanese War, and reshaped the world order at the time. Should we be studying this war more carefully? portsmouthpeacetreaty.org Claude Berube

Still the greatest scifi tv intro music and I'm still trying to master this on the bagpipes.

"China to give two warships to Cambodia in Pacific naval expansion" yahoo.com/news/china-two… via Yahoo News

The final scene of TOS "Day of the Dove" and why it's an accurate scene today's politics: Kirk: "And it goes on and on, the good old game of war, pawn against pawn." Spock: "Those who hate and fight must stop themselves." Kang: "Only a fool fights in a burning house."

Where we could have been in 1999...

"There can't be another country like this in the world...you can guess where people are from by their name particularly if you know some of the etymologies, but whatever name you hear [around the world] there's also a chance that they're an American." - Fr. Joseph Krupp

Coffee, fresh baguette, locally made chevre and a New England autumn day on the water. Berube's proof for the existence of God...

Sure the New Zealand army has its Haka Dance. But I grew up in a tough Franco-American town with a festival that featured "La Danse des Canards." Nothing was more terrifying than 300 adults under the tent dancing this one after a serious night of festival drinking. There's a