It was cheerful anarchy at Willow last night. Partially Australian anarchy, though the group was civil even as it became more lubricated and efficient. It was a George Costanza episode of Seinfeld- the one in which worlds collide. There were senior Naval Intelligence People, and the 18 bright and personable students from Down Under, and […]

I would really like to escape this sorry century and get back to something with a heroic scope and real consequences. I am on pretty solid ground so far, but I need additional information my Great Great Grandfather’s whereabouts after the Union humiliation at the Battle at Brice’s Crossroads, where the family DNA was saved […]

(Chinese computer experts at work. Image from China Defense Mashup). Sorry- I can’t quite seem to let this thing go about the Chinese gaining access to my government security files. I tossed and turned in the night, and had a dream in which a laser dot was playing around on my chest, and I did […]

As you are probably aware, I am not shy about sharing my opinions about things- realizing that opinions are like sphincters and everyone has at least one of them. I rose at the farm today, a bit late, since I was beat from cutting the pastures and lawn and trimming the brush back from the […]

This life thing is kind of ephemeral, you know? We all got dragged into cyber hell yesterday, the political circus, all that. Time to carpe diem- seize it with both hands and wring all the life out of it while we can. But for all that, there are some things that seem to transcend it […]

Friday was a big day at the Pentagon’s JCS J-2 Spaces, and I thought I would pass this along. I want to ensure that you know that one of our best is facing the fight of his life, and as he always does, he is taking it with upbeat optimism. It was the occasion of […]

(Press Secretary Josh Earnest does damage control on the OPM data breech that left a lot us breeched). I would have returned to writing about the 72nd Ohio Volunteer Infantry wandering around Tennessee and Mississippi a century and a half ago this morning. It is much safer back there, but my attention was drawn to […]

“Can see the dead wagon loaded up with twenty or thirty bodies at a time, two lengths, just like four foot wood is loaded on to a wagon at the North, and away they go to the grave yard on a trot. Perhaps one or two will fall off and get run over. No attention […]

(Map of the encounter between the forces of Nathan Bedford Forrest and Samuel Davis Sturgis at Brice’s Crossroads, MS, on 10 June 1864. The position of the 72nd OVI is along the line of retreat at the upper left center. Map Civil War Preservation Trust). I don’t necessarily disbelieve in co-incidence- but the battle that […]

(Union Troops destroying railroad track by heating and bending them around trees. They became known as “Sherman’s Neckties” during the destruction. Image Library of Congress). Oh, man, this could be dry as hell, but it is required for the set-up for what happened to GG Grandfather and the 72nd OVI. So, bear with me. What […]