American Civil Wars & Insurrections – Lessons Forgotten or Relearned?
Remember the American Civil War – America’s bloodiest war & greatest crisis of morality & will? Abraham Lincoln is now universally re...
Category: History
A US Withdrawal from Afghanistan? The Model Works
About seven months ago, we asked: “Remember how the US presence in the Vietnam war ended? In a final exit via helicopters just before the North Vi...
Trump-Comey – The Central Question
Among all the sturm & drang of this week’s Trump-Comey episode, the central point was postulated by Ian Bremmer of Eurasia Group on Thursday: i...
Longer the Base, Higher in Space?
The title, a well known dictum in technical analysis, is used to measure the breakout of an entity from its long term range. After a massive fall from its high,...
Health Care Bill – The Essence & Luck of Donald Trump
The House of Representatives passed their version of Obamacare Repeal & Replace bill this Thursday. Regardless of how this bill gets modified in the ...
History Reverses Itself – To Back Where It Began – US & Russia
We woke up today to the gruesome news of the massacre of over 140 Afghan soldiers in an attack by the Taleban in Afghanistan. This was an attack on an Af...
Client States & Their Patrons – Who Drives Whom?
Remember NaPakistan being lauded for decades as America’s ally and then as America’s critical partner in the war against terror? For decades ...
Rebuttal to Time Warner Board about CNN-Aslan Denigration of Hinduism
On March 18, we wrote an Open Letter to Time Warner Board of Directors about the willful & horrific denigration of Hinduism we saw in the CNN-Aslan s...
There is a Tide … Which If Taken …
There is a reason Napoleon preferred “lucky” generals to merely smart ones. Because he knew the big role luck plays in the success of leaders...
Happy Gudhi Paadvaa & Best Wishes for the New Year
We wish all readers a very Happy & Prosperous New Year on this Gudi Paadvaa, the first day of the month of Chaitra. It is the day Brahma, the Creator...