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I have just seen a letter from the West Point superintendent about the open letter sent by retired LTC Heffington. Here is Heffington’s letter then the supe’s then my comments on both: Open Letter to Grads from LTC(ret) Heffington: (This was written by LTC (USA, ret.) Robert M. Heffington, as an open letter to graduates of the United States Military Academy at West Point. It has only been edited for format, and may differ in that respect from the original. My apologies to Lt. Colonel Heffington if this has been misrepresented in any way) Dear Sir/Ma’am, Before you read any...

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I just saw Max Cleland on the Vietnam PBS series. The Wall Street Journal recently said he lost an arm and both legs “in the fighting there.”No. He did not. He had the same job I had there: battalion communications platoon leader.He was in Khe Sanh and got a Silver Star. But he did not get wounded there. Or anywhere. He was checking out the suitability of a hilltop as a place for FM radios. The higher up they are, the greater the range.As he got out of a chopper, he saw a grenade on the ground, assumed it was...

We can probably destroy all North Korean aircraft and fuel storage tanks cheaply with thermite-grenade-delivering helicopter drones. We can shoot down all missiles shortly after launch with armed drones firing Hellfire heat-seeking missiles. We can sink all North Korean ships and subs with drone-delivered, expired, (i.e., cost-free) gravity bombs. We can take out all their tunnel artillery with satchel-charge suicide drones. That leaves them with infantry and tanks which have no ability to hurt South Korea or anyone else..Minimal US and allied casualties and minimal North Korean civilian casualties..No more talk. Act.

FL is a teaching moment for a number of things I have written about including Electromagnetic Pulse danger (North Korea has been threatening us with that) and empty store shelves (which happens in hyperinflation like currently in Venezuela). Electromagnetic Pulse There are now millions without power there and it is expected to take weeks to get power back. We are not sure exactly what an EMP would do to 2017 electrical devices, but the best guess is it would damage power lines and transformers and maybe things plugged into electrical outlets at the time of the high altitude nuclear explosion...