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April 2, 2017 Vic Socotra

Arrias on Politics: West Texas Foreign Policy

Editor’s Note: Remember, Arrias is a real human being and he writes powerfully. Under the hard country of West Texas and eastern New Mexico, Comanche country, lies a 70,000 square mile geological formation called the Permian Basin. Since the first commercial oil well in the Basin in 1921, approximately 30 billion barrels have been pumped, […]

April 1, 2017 Vic Socotra

April Fool’s Day 2010

(ADM Thomas Moorer in 1964. Photo USN). It was April Fool’s Day, 2010. The town of Topeka, Kansas had decided to re-name itself “Google” for some reason best known to the Mayor and the city council. Mac Showers was feeling a little housebound and was available to chat, and on a splendid day in the […]

March 29, 2017 Vic Socotra

Life & Island Times: It Is All on Us

Editor’s Note: This is, in the form of the mandatory disclosure, the fruit of the intellect of Marlow, a colleague of distant year’s past. It is his story, but we all have them, don’t we? Life & Island Times: It Is All on Us Last week’s imperial city healthcare follies stoked citizens’ fears over the […]

March 28, 2017 Vic Socotra

Vigilantes

(An RVAH-12 RA-5C beginning its reconnaissance run over Vietnam, 1967. Photo USN). Mac was waiting patiently at Willow, half way down the bar that Old Jim anchored at the Amen Corner. I was a little flustered. A subcontractor to us on a counterintelligence contract down at the Russel Knox Building at Quantico had some people […]

March 27, 2017 Vic Socotra

Space Age

Editor’s Note: We are still marching through the remarkable career of RADM Donald “Mac” Showers, which spanned the rise to zenith of The American Century. I will get us to Vietnam one of these days. But trust me, we are going to wrap this up in a month or two. – Vic (GRAB reconnaissance satellite, […]

March 26, 2017 Vic Socotra

Arrias On Politics: North Korea

Editor’s Note: Arrias is the pen name of a real human being with superior analytic and communications skills. It is not me. The thoughts and opinions expressed are his, and not necessarily those of Socotra House LLC, the Department of Defense, or the Hong Kong Fireworks Co., Ltd. His commentary is provided for the exclusive […]

March 25, 2017 Vic Socotra

Death and….

I got through most of the long list things to do in the blue notebook on my desk yesterday. I was fairly pleased with that- even found out that I could get a booster shot for TDAP- tetanus, diphtheria and pertussis- so I can meet the new Granddaughter without exposing her to any additional risk. […]

March 24, 2017 Vic Socotra

The Big Four-Oh

24 March 2017 The Big Four-Oh Screen Shot 2017-03-24 at 1.20.58 PM.png Gentle Readers, I would be remiss if I did not correct a tiny mistake in the story yesterday, the one about Marlow’s 68th anniversary on the planet. Marlow is a real human being- and by that I mean an author whose musings (along […]

March 23, 2017 Vic Socotra

Life & Island Times: 68: Skin Shedding

Today’s email inbox contained the above best wishes from one of the medical community’s specialists who have attended my needs. With the ongoing health care follies inside our nation’s imperial city, it should have made me a bit uncomfortable. Surprisingly, I am not yet uncomfortable despite turning 68 today. In snake terms, I have shed […]