Since I was a teenager I’ve preferred watching non-American movies because they aren’t saddled with the boring good/bad split. Drama becomes exceptionally lame when you are told who is good, who is bad, and then you take an obvious side and wait out the inevitable results. Nothing is at stake. This was always one of … Continue reading What If There Was No Good/Bad Split in Narratives?
You have to appreciate the rich irony of people trying to sway opinion in PsyOps (information operations) failing to do so at home and instead installing a crude political shortcut to push operations faster without convincing anyone… It is easier to get permission to put a Hellfire missile on the forehead of a terrorist than … Continue reading Pompeo Tried to “Fast-Track” PsyOps to Avoid Having to Sway Opinion
See what I did with the title of this blog post? In the famous Pulitzer-prize winning book “The Guns of August“, the author applies some colorful language to illustrate WWI and Imperial Germany. Barbara Tuchman framed the German march, for example, like mindless predator ants: (page 251) The German march through Belgium, like the march … Continue reading The Talented and Beautiful “Night Witches” of WWII
A nicely written summary of the attack on Fort Sumter can be found on the Smithsonian’s page called “The Civil War Begins” In December 1860, a little more than a month after Lincoln’s election, South Carolina’s secession convention, held in Charleston, called on the South to join “a great Slaveholding Confederacy, stretching its arms over … Continue reading This Day in History 1861: Confederacy Starts War With United States to Force an Expansion of Slavery