New at PJMedia VIP. The U.S. military said it is deploying “multidomain unmanned platforms” as part of ongoing operations connected with “Project Freedom” aimed at restoring freedom of navigation in the Strait of Hormuz. In plain English, this means it has deployed hundreds of robots that are now operating in the air, on the surface …
Author Archives: Richard Fernandez
The Islamic Republic’s Choice
New at the Belmont Club. Iran would be caught on the horns of a dilemma – the Horns of Hormuz as it were: to let the ships pass or by opposing them, give Donald Trump a 60-day renewable permit to pound the Islamic Republic into dust. Accepting either course would likely be fatal to the …
Made in Iran Vs Made in Japan
New at PJMedia VIP. China estimates than Japan has enough plutonium to make 5,500 nuclear weapons. Iran has potentially less than 1% of that. Why does the world not worry about Japan?
Memory
New at the Belmont Club. Saying hello or goodbye to people you once knew as the man you used to be.
Victory Is In The Mind
New at PJMedia VIP. Through history, events suggests that it’s not who wins battles, but who terrorizes the population that remains in control.
Defa-e Mozaiki
New at the Belmont Club. From decades of experience at fighting Israel, Iran’s Islamic Republic conceived of strategy to create a defense so deep, so redundant and decentralized that no decapitation or conventional attack could destroy it. They called it Defa-e Mozaiki, the Mosaic Defense.
Information is Surprise
New at PJMedia VIP. Why did Peter Thiel talk about the Antichrist in Rome? The optimists of the last century thought the future would bring them the answers only to learn that it brought even more puzzling questions.
Nudging History
New at the Belmont Club. With everyone afraid with good reason of attempting regime change, is there a way of altering hostile state behavior incrementally? Is there a way of remodeling enemy nations instead of demolishing and rebuilding them?
Changing the Way People Think
New at PJMedia VIP. Facing the daunting problem of fanaticism and radicalization. How many historical failures have survived as ideals? The ideas smashed abroad leave seeds that can grow again — even in your own backyard.
Monstieur
New at the Belmont Club. Why France is so touchy about suggestions there’s a left wing “invisible government” behind recent political violence.
Big China?
New at PJMedia VIP. The media reports that US allies are drifting closer to China. Is Beijing the wave of the future?
The Return of the Nations
New at the Belmont Club. Are the EU and US even on the same side? What is the game? Who is on first?
What’s He Up To?
New at PJMedia VIP. Even as the war in Ukraine goes on for longer than the Great Patriotic War, Putin remains quiet in the face of developments in Venezuela and Iran. Some might say, “too quiet”.
Seeing Things
New at PJMedia VIP. When artificial personalities, like machine intelligence and ideologies, actually believe their projections are facts, they are said to hallucinate. Nothing can dissuade them the iceberg is not there except painful collision with reality.
No Rear Area
Death stalks the former safe rear areas. “MOSCOW (AP) — A car bomb killed a Russian general on Monday, the third such killing of a senior military officer in just over a year. Investigators said Ukraine may be behind the attack.”
Battleship
President Trump announces a future battleship class in the navy. “Battleship!!” is in ways a marketing strategy. It appears to fill a role formerly met by retiring USN cruisers, the “arsenal ship” and the DD-21 “Zumwalt” land attack destroyer.
Watch Threats More Useful Than Watching Things
New at the Belmont Club. In New South Wales the main police database was built when Windows 95 was new and Netscape Navigator was king. It failed to link up different suspicious facts about the Bondi Beach shooters. If the Nationals and Liberal parties want a good solid public policy alternative to the reflexive gun …
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It May Not End Here
New at the Belmont Club: The Bondi Beach massacre. It’s not just what happened, but what might happen next.
In Memoriam
Four rushed the Bondi shooters, only one made it. A married couple about to celebrate their 35th anniversary and a 62 year old man didn’t quite.
Should we be gracious to the fallen foe?
The way in which people react to the defeat, death or misfortune of their foes is largely determined by who they are rather than what their enemies deserve. Should you gloat when a foe falls? You don’t have to be magnanimous, but you could be if you are. Shakespeare said it best: