Category Archives: War Commentary

Business, History, Political Commentary, Space, Technology and Society, War Commentary

Trump’s Second-Term Space Policy

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Yes, it’s an ongoing mess.

[Wednesday-morning update]

Yes, putting a nuclear reactor (in fact, several of them) on the Moon is a great idea, but it’s out of context with the policy mess. If we want to put reactors on the Moon, we have to come up with a scalable, affordable transportation infrastructure to get not only them, but lots of things there. We don’t currently have one, and no one in the administration seems to be concerned about it.

General, History, War Commentary

Gettysburg

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Today is the anniversary of the third day of the battle.

Vicksburg fell the next day, on the Fourth of July, marking the beginning of the end for the South. Vicksburg refused to celebrate the holiday for seven decades.

History, Media Criticism, Political Commentary, War Commentary

Unconditional Surrender

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A history of our fecklessness since the end of WW II.

The problem with Trump is that, despite his talk about “getting tired of winning,” he, like the pseudo-pacifist Democrats (I say “pseudo,” because they aren’t really anti-war–they’re just on the other side) doesn’t want to win wars, but to “end” them. I get that he doesn’t like wars, but sometimes they are necessary, and the only way, ultimately, to end them is to win decisively, in a way that the combatants either no longer exist, or are no longer willing to continue to combat. It remains to be seen whether that’s the case in Iran, but I fear that they are just biding their time.