(This ad accurately reflects the “pros” and “cons” of “survival,” either way. Remember Civil Defense?) Seasonably cool and grey this morning in Virginia. A look at the information streams flowing off the flat-screen showed sharp dichotomies on what we are supposed to believe, several of them with potential consequences. Socotra House is an alert organization […]

It is a week featuring the exercise of power in this Vale of Tears. There is the anniversary of the land war in Europe, of course. That brings back recollections of two global conflicts, augmented by our own wars in MittleEurope. This week, China’s President Xi visited Moscow to assure Mr. Putin of his support […]

Admiral Elmo “Bud” Zumwalt was in the middle of a change in an old institution that in it’s time had some of the same reverberations we are experiencing today. The impact was profound on those who had served the old system as the one today. The Professional Organization to which some of us still belong […]

Subject: Re: Z-Grams Thanks for these memories Vic …… only had some 7 yrs in when this went down in 1970 and it was way above Lt. concerns ….. but interesting, and led to a beard…… One point of clarity however re …. ‘His service in Vietnam had included adapting a fighting force from a […]

We looked around the writer’s huddle on the Balcony with rain coming in. We have a crowd that has lived in multiple states, including the urban and rural areas of several. Both categories have commonality, though some of that seems to have become abraded in recent times. There is some discussion about what Rocket saw […]