There has been a continuing conundrum here at Socotra House about how many times we have been around the world. For a crowd composed of students and military retirees you can imagine it is a widespread assortment of jogs and flights and white water under the bows of warships. But connecting the various dots has […]

Air Force One turned back today due to a minor electrical fault, returning to Joint Base Andrews to switch aircraft. The presidential Boeing 747s have been in service since the mid-1980s, raising the quiet question of whether replacement is overdue. At an estimated $200,000 per flight hour, even short detours add to the broader maelstrom […]

(Photo Socotra, we think, 1965). This sculpture is the Unisphere, a monumental stainless-steel globe Installed for the 1964–65 World’s Fair in New York City. We believe the image is from the Chairman’s personal collection, rights owned by him, since the family’s trip to New York City brought back his folk’s time, engaged and wed in […]

(Dr. Anthony Fauci. Photo HHS) Well, this morning started out with a bang. There wasn’t an actual detonation, mind you, but with the number of geopolitical hot-spots on active boil at the moment (Venezuela, Cuba, Iran, Taiwan, et alia), it was a muffled sort of explosion. Part of the underpinning of it is the plague, […]

There are two Acts under discussion this morning and we will talk about both of them in traditional numerical order. The Insurrection Act of 1807 naturally came first, since there aren’t enough numbers in the title. The Posse Comitatus Act seems older. since it uses Latin in the title, using a classic tongue to provide […]

The President had some strong words for the Mullah in Tehran the other day, so we assume that means something much is going to happen, since the Mullah may have noticed that something strong happened the last time the President had some increase in the rhetorical intensity and volume. We admit we may be losing […]

The present -day Indo-Pacific Fleet is not bounded by the vast ocean for which it is named. When Iranian militants seized American hostages in November 1979, the U.S. Government decided to establish a continuing presence in the Indian Ocean as a means of demonstrating resolve and ability to project military power. Although that ocean is […]

This week, President Donald Trump and SECWAR Hegseth put on a double team effort to highlight shortfalls in America’s defense- budget, one of nine still unfunded and which could cause a shut-down in three weeks. Wait, Is that ‘defense’ or actually the ‘WAR” budget? The routine news from the Hill this morning highlights what is […]

(This is the General Dynamics sales brochure of their new ballistic missile submarine. It is a pricey beast, with a dealer tag of nearly $9 billion—nearly the amount of fraud found so far in the Minnesota day care system. But check the subtitles: it is a diligent handmaiden—guarding against the fires of hell while retaining […]

We spent the beginning of lunch with the Governor of Minnesota. It had been an interesting morning filled with angry white women and former Vice Presidential candidates. The discussion was animated ad filled with the imagery of N utomobilie being put into “drive” and striking a Federal Law Enforcement officer. As a group, we took […]