Military
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Rethinkings Out Loud
Anchors Away Nothing is more North Atlantic than Greenland. If the US siezes it, NATO will transform from an alliance to a war zone, where allies become combatants. Does anyone outside Trump’s amen corner want that? But what if the US buys Greenland from Denmark, like it bought the Louisiana Territory from France and Alaska Continue reading
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We’ll see
Daniel Barkhuff has a serious one-liner bio (“Husband, Dad, Emergency Medicine physician, Veteran”) and speaks with earned authority from all of them, especially the last two. His latest, On Living Memory, reminds me of two dads. One is my father, who re-enlisted in 1944 at age 35, because he wanted to fight in The War. Among other Continue reading
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Tuesday
Whatever, it's complicated. The Narrow Path Needs a Floorplan: What Happens When You Feed Tristan Harris’s Vision Into the Meta-layer. The path is between the DYSTOPIA of centralized control and the CHAOS of "unchecked decentralized" whatever. The path is called COORDINATION, and involves "global clarity & coordinated action," which is about "co-governance—a path where humanity chooses structure, Continue reading
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Puppet Tree
I guarantee insights and learnings. Great podcast interview with the world's leading authority on the puppets in Star Wars, and author of the book A Galaxy of Things. But… Japan? A leaked FSB email says Russia had a "maniacal desire for war" and that Ukraine was (or may not have been… unclear) its first choice. Continue reading
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Props to Pop on Memorial Day
Thinking today, with great appreciation, about my father, Allen H. Searls, who served twice in the U.S. Army, first in the Coastal Artillery and again in the Signal Corps, during World War II. As I put it in the caption under that photo, Pop hated not fighting in The War. So he re-enlisted even though he had Continue reading
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Desert warfare training in live ghost towns, seen from the sky
I’ve been fascinated for years by what comes and goes at the Fort Irwin National Training Center— —in the Mojave Desert, amidst the dark and colorful Calico Mountains of California, situated in the forbidding nowhere that stretches between Barstow and Death Valley. Here and there, amidst the webwork of trails in the dirt left by Continue reading