It is a week featuring the exercise of power in this Vale of Tears. There is the anniversary of the land war in Europe, of course. That brings back recollections of two global conflicts, augmented by our own wars in MittleEurope. This week, China’s President Xi visited Moscow to assure Mr. Putin of his support […]

Admiral Elmo “Bud” Zumwalt was in the middle of a change in an old institution that in it’s time had some of the same reverberations we are experiencing today. The impact was profound on those who had served the old system as the one today. The Professional Organization to which some of us still belong […]

Subject: Re: Z-Grams Thanks for these memories Vic …… only had some 7 yrs in when this went down in 1970 and it was way above Lt. concerns ….. but interesting, and led to a beard…… One point of clarity however re …. ‘His service in Vietnam had included adapting a fighting force from a […]

We looked around the writer’s huddle on the Balcony with rain coming in. We have a crowd that has lived in multiple states, including the urban and rural areas of several. Both categories have commonality, though some of that seems to have become abraded in recent times. There is some discussion about what Rocket saw […]

There is a lot going on, isn’t there? The President of the United States visited a town that used to be spelled “Kiev.” A call presumably was made to notify Russia that any interference with the visit would constitute an act of war on their part, and maybe justify a nuclear response. Several of us […]

17 February 2023: Vic, You mentioned the homeless encampment in Washington at McPherson Square as being across the street from the renowned Army-Navy Club, a historic structure and institution that reflects old relationships from two venerable organiztions that once held individual Cabinet possessions in our Government. My lovely wife and I had brunch there last […]