Category: DailySocotra

Project freedom

Last week, the U.S. Departments of State and War announced plans to step up and share information among international partners to combine diplomatic action with military coordination to implement Project Freedom. US contributions to the effort will include guided-missile destroyers, over 100 land and sea-based aircraft, multi-domain unmanned platforms, and 15,000 service members. ADM Brad […]

Deirdre’s Maryland Crab Cakes & Other Current Affairs

The one above is the serious matter DoJ is pursuing. The campaign of weaponizing the Department to go after the people who weaponized it last time. This time it is JIm Comey who is going to have to dig in for some spare legal change, since he sent the image above as an Instagram post. […]

Anti-War Protestor Scales Bridge, Plans To Stay For Days

This is an ongoing story. A fellow named Guifo Reichstadter has done this before, in 2022. Police had closed two lanes of the inbound section of the bridge. There is no word on whether there are plans for Kentucky Derby watching from the spans. Police are telling folks to avoid the area, which could impact […]

NIP 2026 Spring Red Tie Award

The Staff at Army-Navy Country Club turned in one of their customary elegant backdrops for a dramatic iteration of the NIP Red Tie award that featured award of the Red Tie to revered Marine Vince Stewart with keynote remarks by LT GEN Jerry Carter, ODNI Director’s Advisor for Military Affairs. The tradition of the Red […]

Dierdre’s Cheesy Bacon Sliders

OK,OK, we had to get the Professionals article out of the way for Miles and the Boomers who went over to Army-Navy for the Spring Red Tie affair yesterday. They were slow out of the gate this morning since the luncheon led on to some other things and Dierdre saw a chance on getting one […]

The Pinglu Canal & The Red Tie Luncheon

If you want something to think about as we followed the passage of a single Saudi-owned oil tanker through the Strait of Hormuz, you will see how we wound up looking at major canal-digging projects designed to eliminate chokepoints to world and energy shipments. The Pinglu Canal is worth a minute of concentration over on […]

Vic and Dierdre’s Oven-Kissed Scallops

So, this edition caused a row in the Conference Room and you can imagine why. Dierdre was a Communications Department Major over at the George Mason University’s school for that sort of thing before she interned at Socotra House. With intelligence and energy she rose to serving in Direct Support to the Creative Section Daily […]

False Flags Flying (घटनाएँ)

We have just come through another week in which the phrase “false flag” was deployed almost instantly after a violent event. Before facts settle, before investigations conclude, the accusation is already airborne. घटनाएँ is the term the people of the sub-continent of India use for “events,” and the way their parts are characterized. Let’s be […]

Racial Gerrymandering Struck Down

This is one of those mornings when Dierdre did not have time to braid her hair. Holly was boisterous and some of the Salts had started their luncheon festivities early. The event in Washington about things in Louisiana will spill over in Virginia and Florida and all the other states that have embarked on state-level […]

Three Wars- Status

That thing in the Gulf? The hard-line Shia militarists in the Iranian Revolutionary Guard are under mounting pressure. We have supported the oil storage story for three weeks now. Technically, it holds. The Iranians appear to be running short of places to put the stuff, and they are improvising. They have guns, certainly, but they […]