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A military question that is about to be answered is the role of drones in modern combat between modern militaries. This may also be the end of tanks which I have said for years appears to be an obsolete fraud. We have a zillion of them. Might as well give them to the Russians. Even the marines are giving them all away to the Army, which does not want them. Give them to the Ukraines and train them to use them..Some readers say tanks are not yet obsolete. We’ll see..The impending battle may be like General Billy Mitchell’s demonstration to...

In spite of my forecasts that we may be on the verge of hyperinflation, the WSJ dollar index has been going up since I first started writing about inflation. When I started in 2010, it was around 73. Now it is around 93. That indicates that the value of the dollar has been going up compared to a basket of foreign currencies the WSJ has picked..I hasten to add that the basket is not the currencies  recommend. I think they pick theirs on market share. In other words, popularity. The WSJ index is composed of: Euro (EUR), 57.6% weight Japanese yen (JPY)...

Walter Russell Mead’s column in today’s WSJ (page A15) is fascinating. It may be nonsense. I have no expertise in the subject. Pending someone refuting it, it seems mandatory reading to me given that nuclear war is at stake..I have asked the question “What is all this talk that comes out of Putin about restoring Russia to greatness? Russia was never great. It is an imaginary past.” Mead’s column explains it not as a Putin delusion, but as a national delusion..If so, we may be in for a nuclear war because the entire Russian nation suffers from insane delusions of...

The biggest tank battle in history was the Battle of Kursk in 1943. Kursk is about 250 miles east north east from Kyiv. . Much talk about a repeat about to happen. . 1. They did not have Javelins and NLAWs in 1943. 2. Kursk is great tank country: flat farm fields, BUT NOT YEAR ROUND. That area has frozen fields in winter—fine for tanks—and maybe dry ones in summer—also good for tanks. The 1943 Battle of Kursk took place July 5th to August 23, 1943. In the SPRING, however, that area has epic mud. It is now Spring. ....

I got a notice to renew my drivers license. Don’t know why. It expires in 2028. Maybe my age. Had to do it in person because of eye test and written test. . I checked the hours. It is now at a local indoor mall. To my surprise, they open at 8AM there. . Relatively efficient for the DMV which is sort of the quintessential example of government worker sloth. . I wanted my veteran status in the license, but they said I needed a paper I never heard of to prove it. Never mind. . A year or so...