Iran is allied de facto to the Russian Federation and the People's Republic of China, the latter of whom are both nuclear-armed states, Russia of the first order.

The academic literature is very clear on this point, that to show t00 much domestic Power Elite disunity is fundamentally dangerous when c… Read full post »

Clearly, "The Market" had some participants who had a bout of anxiety about four more years of Obama, if that seems overreacting to the author by a large measure, because the structure of the situation facing whoever takes office, absent actual hostility to the country, dictates a large measure of wh… Read full post »

It's not hard to connect dots if one is ruthless about why they would be connected, and remembers an ancient rule of politics: the enemy of my enemy is my friend.

Thus, although Sunni extremists and Shia extremists like the Iranian Revolutionary Guard/Pasdaran cannot be said to like one another, they… Read full post »

Now this series isn't An Officer and A Gentleman, but a take on life in America in Atlanta, Georgia, where the professor has spent the last four months working as a landscaper, usually doing maintenance on Connor Group apartment complexes on what is known as Loco Mike's route, Loco Mike being… Read full post »

Now it's certainly true that the number of vessels across time should be considered in the context of tonnage, per last night's Presidential debate, if the President in effect did that in terms of carriers; fair enough.

On the other hand, some have thought that carriers are vulnerable to missile fire… Read full post »

That Romney didn't talk about "Throughput," the term invented by Alfred Chandler in his wonderful history of modern large scale business enterprise, The Visible Hand, was unfortunate, if understandable.

It's understandable because it would probably go over about as well as You Know Who's use of the w… Read full post »

That was an interesting question, as to should the United States guarantee Israeli security as it does Japan, in which the candidates answers were only semi-answers, if that is for understandable reasons.

Of course, given Zionist and Evangelical constituencies in the United States, they practically f… Read full post »

That was an interesting question, as to should the United States guarantee Israeli security as it does Japan, in which the candidates answers were only semi-answers, if that is for understandable reasons.

Of course, given Zionist and Evangelical constituencies in the United States, they practically f… Read full post »

The most important question is a simple one: "Do you think more along the lines of Jeffersonian-Wilsonian-FDR Liberalism or more along the lines of Hamiltonian-TR-Nixon Realism, and why?"

Once you know the answer to that question as it is explained, if Obama is clearly a Jeffersonian and Romney a Ham… Read full post »

Motto White Squall: "Where we go one, where we go all." 

If you have worked with the Migos, no offense to the whites and the blacks I have been lucky enough to work with as a landscaper for the last four months in Atlanta, you would see that there is a… Read full post »

 This is based on academic training and research conducted on an independent basis, sometimes discussed with formal institutions at their request, implicitly and more directly, if the analysis remains that of the author.

History can be used and misused in many ways, if obviously one would prefer… Read full post »

It is recorded in Herodotus The Histories, and other ancient sources, that the Spartan King Leonidas, upon hearing the demand of Xerxes ambassadors for the sign of submission, filling his jars with Earth and Water, responded by pitching the Persian ambassadors into a well to their deaths.

Why did Leo… Read full post »

Por Honduras Lee, y nuestra discussion de ayer a la respuesta de su pregunta sobre los asuntos del programa nuclear de Iran, en que Lee sabia que Israel no ha firmado el tratado de non-proliferacion de armas nucleares, y en realidad es un estadoa de armas nucleares, entre 100 y 400.… Read full post »

The author was trained in Game Theory by Stergios Skaperdas at the University of California, Irvine, and has conducted independent mathematical and more importantly qualitative research into the subject for the last twenty years, if the conclusions are his own as to how Game Theory ironically if pred… Read full post »

It's hard not to like Bo, which is why... he's Bo.

Now as an economist, it's refreshing to see a President use a much beloved word of economists: optimal.

That also presents what the President might call a teachable moment.

Now to an economist, with the President's teachable moment, optimal means… Read full post »

In 1993, General Garrison requested AC-130 Spectre gunships for a raid on associates of Muhammad Farah  Aidid, as well as light armor.

The request was denied, and what ensued was what one surviving Delta Force member called "...as great a performance by American light infantry in history," also… Read full post »

For Megan, Barry and Eric Rich. 

What Felix Baumgartner did today in leaping from a balloon from an altitude of 128,000 feet, 24 miles, was truly inspiring, and a landmark for showing something really cool to look forward too, and  herefore live to see, almost really as a metaphor for a… Read full post »

For Mark and Dennis Sims, and everyone at Procare, to be introduced to tell a story that I think the most important tale I shall ever write, and the funniest. Dennis is on to something as to a reality show, if the main focus is about the fluid, if imperfectly so,… Read full post »

There were economists associated with "right-leaning" schools of thought, if it was mainly about mathematics, who had predicted the nature and timing of the financial collapse rather precisely as of 2005 but who nonetheless out of a sense of broader non-partisan duty offered advice as to the bud… Read full post »

La Raza es una cultura y a punto una raza, la ultima solamente en el sentido del sentamento de etnico commun, y La Raza solamente existe porque el viaje de Columbus que nos celebramos hoy.

The Raza is a culture and to a point a race, the latter only in the sense… Read full post »

 Por my hija Megan.

President Obama does pretty well on TV, or he wouldn't be President, but it's not the same thing as being a teacher as to be a television personality, and it is a teacher which is what the President used to be, and once that's in your blood,… Read full post »

What was curious about the debates to the author wasn't the arguments, as they need to argue about something pretty much, but the stipulated agreements.

That's good news actually, as to the American Power Elite having a clue, if, they have almost talked themselves into certain ideological boxes that… Read full post »

What was curious about the debates to the author wasn't the arguments, as they need to argue about something pretty much, but the stipulated agreements.

That's good news actually, as to the American power elite having a clue, if, they have almost talked themselves into certain boxes that would be cat… Read full post »

 For MEB, forever and ever.

It's really not very nice to score political points off a dead Ambassador, if that is inevitable to some extent.

He's dead, and is a symbol of potentially awesome consequences, since to kill an American ambassador is an act of war: period.

If Iran turned out… Read full post »

 For Megan, Eric, and Barry Rich.

It's easy to make fun of the United States Postal Service, unless you think about the constraints they operate under as to politics.

USPS is actually very respected in the field of operations research, as to generating patterns of activity that are carefully opt… Read full post »