Foreign policy

Western military leaders are doing a poor job of hiding their growing consternation about the progress of Russian in achieving the “de-militarization” of Ukraine. Following Poland’s announcement it was sending…

I am not sure if the media reports in the west claiming that Vladimir Putin is crazy is caused by gross ignorance or part of a desperate propaganda campaign. Just…

As Andrei Martyanov has frequently and correctly noted, the U.S. Army and its legacy officers are demonstrating remarkable incompetence in assessing the Russian military. The latest in this parade of…

The cards keep falling Russia’s way so far as it moves west to consolidate territory and the United States and some key members of the European Union backed away from…

The so-called Institute for the Study of War aka ISW (i.e. https://www.understandingwar.org/) has no sense of irony, especially with the name of its website–Understanding War. The analysts at this outfit…

Unless you are a student of the history of World War II, you probably do not appreciate the role that DECEPTION operations played in pinning down German forces and the…

It looks like Ukrainian officials are not blowing smoke on this. During the past 24 hours Russian military operations in the Donbas and in Western Ukraine have increased markedly. I…

I try to monitor Western media as one measure of how Russia’s war with the West is progressing. It is again a case of the dog that did not bark….

I stumbled across a video of Dr. Philip Karber, a former U.S. Marine and founder of the Potomac Foundation, briefing West Point cadets in April 2018 on the war in…