For a few hours this week, it sounded as though the Strait of Hormuz might reopen. An unnamed senior Iranian official told Reuters that Tehran could restore passage within seven days if the United States eased military pressure and began lifting its blockade of Iranian ports. The proposal, the official said, had reached Washington through […]

  The historical irony here is almost too loud to ignore, so why don’t you come on in and snuggle up and enjoy some of it with us? The Opium Wars are back! It is what China wants to do to us by self-driving cars as we have done to them in other generations- by […]

“Operation Argument” was the name of the military operation launched by the United States Army Air Forces, supported by the Royal Air Force’s Bomber Command, against Nazi Germany in February 1944. Airplanes loaded with high explosives were supposed to demonstrate the gravity of the discussion. The big argument in progress then, the biggest ever, was […]

The Conference Room was filled yesterday morning to see our President- a man arguably acting as the Chief Executive of a lot more territorory- told the Iranians he was prepared to annihilate them to make Iran a world-class state in the great tradition of Persian nations. He looks a little tired these days, and we […]

Orchard Owner William Tyson and His Corner, 1951 Peaches in a savory dinner? Yes, please! Our pal Amanda has a wonderful recipe for Peach Balsamic Chicken over at her Homestead Site. But hold on for just a second. Those of us who hang out in a Conference Room about forty feet on the diagonal from […]

Section Leader Miles asked me to do a quick line and block diagram on the new Department of War now that Secretary Hegseth has bolted on the new Space and AI wings onto it. That was done before lunch yesterday, but you can see there was some afternoon leakage over at Fort Meade, headquarters of […]

Well, as I explained this morning, you can see the new War Department block diagram had things pretty well laid out with the new Space Force shield entered in and the circles of authority all orbiting properly in their arcs around Secretary Pete. And all those other centers of gravity of with revolving careers and […]

We are way behind this afternoon with the announcement yesterday from Secretary lf War Pete Hegseth about the status of Pitiffuk Space Force Base, formerly Thule Strategic Air Command Base. up on Greenland’s upper west coast. Miles just asked us to do a quick line diagram on what the Department we served looks like these […]

The map was never supposed to actually be the territory in question. You can see how quickly we got off track this morning with the commotion over the relative size of the world’s largest island. The projection we are used to is the one above on the left, and if has places like New York […]

We used to know where ‘Thule’ was. It was a term used to describe a place so far away as to almost unimaginable. Then, they changed the name to one that sounds more like a car tire being chopped open with a hatchet. Anyway, it went along with some of the other noise on the […]