by Anonymous This first appeared in The Havok Journal on April 3, 2016. Police forces march in on crowds during the First Day of the Chinese New Continue Reading
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I am Afraid of What Comes Next “For Our Safety”
Canada became a nation on 1 July 1867. Some will dispute this and say that we weren't fully a nation till 9 Apr 1917, when under a new tactic of Continue Reading
U.S. Policy in the Western Hemisphere: a “Hole of Government” Approach
by LogCinco Since the 1980s, the Government of the United States of America has been asleep at the switch. Not everyone, of course: there are Continue Reading
Everything I Needed to Know About COVID-19, I Learned in Kindergarten
This originally appeared in The Havok Journal on April 21, 2020. Has anything changed a year later? “Wisdom from the mouths of babes.” In trying to Continue Reading
Putin Moves Thousands More Troops To Border With Ukraine, Because…
Russian "president in perpetuity" Vladimir Putin recently moved tens of thousands of Russian troops to his country's restive border with Ukraine in Continue Reading
When Life Gives You Idiots… Make Foreign Policy
I got my shot yesterday. No, not tequila, stop looking at me that way. I got my first COVID-19 vaccine dose, and man does it feel good to be Continue Reading
Modern Insurgency as a Lingering Effect of the Industrial Revolution
The Industrial Revolution, the late 1700s through the early 1800s, was incidental, if not intentioned, the result of the Treaties of Münster and Continue Reading
Divided Loyalty: The Immigration Dilemma
This first appeared in The Havok Journal on April 5, 2016. The topic remains just as relevant today. We face trying times where loyalty is the only Continue Reading
National Identity Crisis in the Gulf States? A Puzzle for the Future
In reading a chapter titled, “The Oil-Driven Nation-Building of the Gulf States After the Second World War” from The Emergence of the Gulf States, I Continue Reading
Wars of Inconvenience
I work very hard not to be the typical angry vet, but sometimes it is very hard and today was a special challenge. I have never wanted the power to Continue Reading
The Battle of Air Base 594: What War with Iran Might Look Like… On The Ground
by MAJ J.A. Lyons This first appeared in The Havok Journal on March 10, 2020. He lay prone on his back looking skyward with collapsing tunnel Continue Reading
Assessing Trust in the Afghan Peace Deal
This first appeared in The Havok Journal on March 9, 2020. The subject remains a relevant issue today. Trust. It’s a mysterious term and rarely Continue Reading
