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The Administration Seems to Have Learned a Very Hard Lesson About War

Finally it Looks like ATACMS Will be Sent to Ukraine

A Senior Republican Speaks About the GOP and Ukraine

Weekend Update #77: Ukraine Aid Passes the House!

Episode 13: US Aid is (finally) about to be approved.

Europe Needs its Own Nuclear Deterrent: Part 2

Europe Needs to Look to Its Own Nuclear Deterrent: Part 1

Weekend Update #76: A Tale of Two Raids: Ukraine Has No Nuclear Weapons So Must Suffer

How to Lose a War: Lessons from the Pentagon

The United States: Powerful and Weak at the Same Time

Weekend Update #75: The Russian Campaign to Kill Kharkiv

A Choice Between Weakness and Evil

Ukraine Attacks Russian Shahed Manufacturing in Tartarstan

Weekend Update #74: Ukraine is Holding with a Major Ammunition Shortfall

Episode 12: Ukraine's Strategic Air War--which the US wants to stop

Part 2: Strategic Bombing Update: Are We Seeing 'Bomber' Harris versus Carl Spaatz?

Strategic Bombing Update: Are We Seeing 'Bomber' Harris versus Carl Spaatz?

The Nuclear War that Never Was

Weekend Update #73: Strategic Airpower Becomes the Focus of the War

Ukraine: The View from Europe

Can either side actually advance faster than a human can walk?

Weekend Update #72: The Weimar Triangle

Episode 11: Europe Seems to be Waking Up

Ukraine is Waging a Strategic Air Campaign Against Russian Oil Production

We Need a New Language to Discuss Air Power

Weekend Update #71: Was this the Week Reflexive Control Broke?

This Should be the UK's Moment to Lead

Nuclear Weapons--The Good News and the Bad News

Weekend Update #70: Reflexive Control and Putin's Nuclear Threats

Episode 10: Situation on the Battlefield with Ukraine on the defensive

European Troops in Ukraine--Dont Rule it Out

Direct Messages Now on Substack!

With Sweden Joining NATO, the USA has Won the Strategic War of the 20th and 21st Centuries

Weekend Update #69. Ukraine Does Better in South Carolina than Expected

Two Different Languages

US Opinion is Solid on Aiding Ukraine, But Where is the Aid?

Weekend Update #68. Ukrainians Withdraw from Avdiivka

Episode 9: Changes in Ukrainian Command,

The 2024 elections: Glass Half Empty or Half Full?

Ukrainians sink another valuable Russian warship

A Thank You to Subscribers

The Democrats Need to Make a Bold Move--Now

Weekend Update #67: Command Change

General Oleksandr Syrskyi

How Ukraine Can Win: Kamyshin Speaks

What Europe Must Do Now in 10 Steps

Weekend Update #66: Its always been about Ukraine--Not the Border, Not Spending Cuts

Episode 8: Command Crisis, the state of the war, Americans telling Ukraine what to do

Supreme Command: Its not a Celebrity Contest

AI and Victory in the Ukraine War

Weekend Update #65 Crunch time gets Crunchier

AI and the Future of War (even in Ukraine)

AI is starting to Rule the Battlefield

Weekend Update #64: Crunch Time in Washington

Episode 7: How is Active Defense working for Ukraine

Why can Ukraine win? Because its military is (at least) 3 times as efficient

Ukrainians have shot down two valuable Russian aircraft

Weekend Update #63: 3 months of Russian Avdiivka Assaults

Is it time now for Europe to go its own way?

The Historical Exceptionalism of US Escalation Policy and the War in Ukraine

Weekend Update #62, The Return of Strategic Bombing

Episode 6: What are Russians and Ukrainians attacking? Ukrainian Strategy, Reporting on the war

Why would I write that WSJ article?