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Fixed Values, Variable War: Clausewitz, Metrics, and American Campaigns from Vietnam to Iran
A few years ago I wrote the following comment out of an interest in the recurring disconnect in the American way of war: the gap between political aims, the force structures built to pursue them, and the financial costs those campaigns actu...
The Powell Doctrine, Exit Strategies, and the Limits of Expeditionary War
I first wrote most of this essay several years ago. The current situation in Iran led me to revisit those questions and reconsider my earlier conclusions. I have updated the essay to account for recent events.
Introduction
Wars are jud...
God’s Graces: Turning Relations of Destruction into Relationship Resurrection
I don’t normally make these kinds of posts, but I thought I would share a particularly meaningful experience that I had this weekend.
I don’t normally make these kinds of posts, but I thought I would share a particularly meaningful experie...
Book Review of “Crisis of the Common Good: The Fight for Meaning and Connection in a Broken America” by Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT)
In “Crisis of the Common Good” (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2026), Senator Chris Murphy offers a clear-eyed and morally urgent diagnosis of America’s deeper malaise. Donald Trump, he insists, is a symptom rather than the root cause...
Notes to Ambassador Michael McFaul Q&A, August 6, 2026.
In a Q&A with his paid subscribers, Ambassador Michael McFaul addressed a question I posed, one that begins with Carl von Clausewitz’s enduring observation from ‘On War’ (Book One, Chapter Two):
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Retired USAF; national security, foreign affairs, politics, etc. Only God can judge me, others don't waste your time. Renaissance man; sprezzatura; joie de vivre; forever young at heart.
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