The past year now has seen the Federal government developing a refined interest in the investigation of Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP). More recently, the Senate is growing impatient at the Department of Defense’s initiative to establish a governmental organization tasked… Read More ›
Political Science
Lessons from the 600-Ship Navy — Station HYPO
The 1980s proved that great-power competition requires clear naval strategy and advocacy. By Lieutenant Joseph Sims, U.S. Navy The U.S. Navy of the 1980s provides a reminder what serious peer competition in the naval sphere looks like and the resources… Read More ›
Update (27 July 2022)
Today, I am going to be working on two posts which I intend to be completed before the end of the day. Besides those two, I am also going to repost the post of another Blog. Yesterday’s post about France… Read More ›
The Relation of Diplomacy to War – Antoine-Henri Jomini — Strategic Studies Book Club
Synopsis: The American military has long been bewitched operationally and strategically by Antoine-Henri Jomini’s formulaic approach to warfare. The universality of the Jominian consciousness is so well established other strategic schools usually operate beside it – or as a passing… Read More ›
On Russia’s Invasion of the Ukraine (7 March 2022)
The casus belli, the justification that Post-Soviet Russia is professing as its motive for invading Ukraine, is the “Denazification of the Ukraine.” The claim argues that because Ukraine is allegedly Hitlerist, Russia should invade the Ukraine in an act of… Read More ›
On Russia Invading Ukraine (5 March 2022)
Anyone reading The Fourth Estate may notice that I have not been posting as much as I used to lately. Between posting something new like Economic History Case Studies and Conservative Socialism or focusing on contemporary events, I felt that… Read More ›
On “Information Asymmetry”
Finding straightforward, unbiased media sources in the English-speaking world is difficult, if not next-to-impossible. It is even more troublesome in the German-speaking world, where certain Cognitive Biases prevail over the interpretations of past historical events from a distinctly West German… Read More ›
Third Place: Student Cooperatives and the 600-Ship Navy (Pt. II of II)
“The [Democratic-Republican Party] in the arena of world politics have gorged themselves in all respects. Although they can [afford untold sums of Kapital and Schuld], they do not possess top-notch statesmen, planners, military leaders, scientists, nor [an American] people willing… Read More ›
Preview of “Third Place: Student Cooperatives and the 600-Ship Navy (Pt. II of II)”
“The [Democratic-Republican Party] in the arena of world politics have gorged themselves in all respects. Although they can [afford untold sums of Kapital and Schuld], they do not possess top-notch statesmen, planners, military leaders, scientists, nor [an American] people willing… Read More ›
“Hamilton Takes Command!”: Student Codetermination of the Military-Industrial Complex?
In June 1775, the Continental Congress in Philadelphia chose Virginia delegate Col. George Washington as commander in chief of the Continental Army then surrounding British-occupied Boston. Hurrying north, Washington spent a day in New York City, where, on Sunday, June… Read More ›
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