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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Making a Simple Healthy Sandwich Our pal and Old Salt Santa rang the chimes on us early this afternoon. You know how these things go. We are proud to be consuers of good beef. Vic worked on a rnach raising Charlolais cattle for beef production, so we have some in-house experience in raising good animilas, […]

(Clockwise: portrait of Captain John Paul, later Rear Admiral John Paul Jones; daguerreotypes from the 1905 exhumation at the paved-over Cimetière des Protestants Étrangers; and the final crypt at Annapolis.) The Forgotten Admiral There is a bunch going on overseas, and America’s ships are enforcing sanctions and maintaining blockades. We will know more about how […]

This was not in the production plan but it turned up in the transition of MIle’s old MacBook Pro to the new one. The sandwich below is one of a string of outstanding roast beef sandwiches Tracy O’grady would do at her fabulous Willow Restaurant on Fairfax Drive in Arlington. Kate Jansen is responsible for […]