Calls to the West for intervention to stop the spread of the Islamic State are louder than ever. The easy answer appears to be more tanks, guns, and boots on the ground. None of these are a bad idea but…
After the return of Bowe Bergdahl in exchange for 5 prisoners (combatants?) from Guantanamo Bay, Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel described this as a ‘POW’ exchange. As an analyst, I tend to be sensitive to how politicians describe such geopolitical…
About 35 years after their previous conflict, China and Vietnam are having another issue. Reports indicate that a couple thousand Chinese have evacuated back to the homeland while trains full of PLA soldiers, tanks, APC’s and artillery are being delivered…
What do you know about bonds? Two guys run two bond firms that equal the size of Germany’s GDP. Germany’s economy produces the fourth largest GDP in the world. Isn’t that a strange sentence? Two guys run a couple of…
So, there are three major historical forces that counterbalance human existence. Food, war and disease. War is awful but its death trend line over the last few hundred years declines. Any starvation is an avoidable tragedy at this point but…
Here are a few of my notes about the Ukraine, and why I think Russia is done invading nations for now. Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia are all proper members of NATO, EU and the Euro. That means direct engagement with…