Intro Shortly after starting my posts about the Russo-Ukraine War, a friend of mine asked me if I would like to participate in his website, realcavsfans.com, as a guest poster on the political thread. Of course, I said, “yes”. One of the threads he posted was a Q&A thread, and below…

Before you spit out your coffee, give it second, and keep reading. In the not so distant past, there was a country with a significant migration problem. People with one linguistic, cultural and religious tradition settled a frontier region belonging to a country with separate linguistic, cultural and religious traditions…

Medium.com is an interesting platform. In addition to providing a pretty easy blogging platform for writers, it has all of the Twitter-esque trolls and Facebook-like rants one could ever want. So, just as on the larger social media platforms, there is a war of public opinion playing out on Medium…

In Part 1 of this series, we began to address the invalid comparisons of the NATO training missions in Afghanistan and Ukraine, and discussed reasons why the training mission in Afghanistan was a resounding failure. In this part of the series, we’ll discuss many of the differences between Afghanistan and…

So, I delayed this update for two reasons. First, the status of the Makarov was still unknown, despite the Ukrainian MoD claiming that they sunk it. Second, today was the much anticipated Victory Day Parade in Red Square, and the world has been holding its collective breath to see what…

This may come as a shock to some, but Ukraine is not Afghanistan (if you are here and reading this, you probably already know that). While this is a statement of the grotesquely obvious, it seems to need repeating for the pundits who are marveling at the success of US/NATO…

Fifth Gen war will be fought with the best Third Gen weapons money can buy. Overview Here is the latest ISW assessment for 1 May 2022. The bulk of the fighting remains centered around Donbass, Mariupol and Kershon, and there is some lingering Russian presence around Kharkiv. A Ukrainian rocket strike…

Note: this is a somewhat shorter update than I had originally intended due to work and personal commitments. Overview: Here is the ISW assessment for 25 April. So… Russia is still doing Russia things and doing them badly. At this point the only thing surprising about this is how often we…

Overview: Here is the ISW assessment for 15 April. Eight weeks into the war and things have gone from bad to awful to terrible to catastrophic to $%@#&#!!! for Russia. There are so many things happening with the war at the moment, and with so much to sift through, this…