Microsoft is now out to prove that Bastiat’s 1850 broken window fallacy (Ce qu’on voit et ce qu’on ne voit pas) is actually a great way to make money! (In other words, profit from waging expensively self-destructive cyber wars.) What do I mean by profit from broken windows? In a real-life example, scientist and environmental … Continue reading Bastiat Economics and Microsoft’s Broken Windows
The impressively huge Aircraft Carrier was a decisive platform in past wars and still gets a lot of airtime (pun not intended). …when word of a crisis breaks out in Washington, it’s no accident that the first question that comes to everyone’s lips is: ‘where’s the nearest carrier?’ However, I can’t help but think about … Continue reading The Future-Future of Aircraft Carriers
On the day of Tết (Vietnamese New Year) I encourage the reader to think about a 1968 Viet Cong breach of the US Embassy and how it relates to a violent 2021 Capitol Hill insurrection: En route to the American Embassy, the sappers were spotted driving without lights by a South Vietnamese civilian policeman. This … Continue reading This Day in History 1968: Vietnam Tet Offensive and Nixon’s Treason
People in information security circles tend to focus on the SolarWinds breach in a bubble, despite a far larger system integrity issue at hand in America. To paraphrase Deming’s “toast” analogy, US Police and Military have been for a long time been made wrong in ways that don’t just “scrape” off after society is burned. … Continue reading Removing Terrorists Who Infiltrated US Police and Military