PinnedSplashHere we go again. Another Medium page run by a mid-20s, underemployed college grad with too much time on his hands. Time for the elevator…May 23, 2023May 23, 2023
The Tsar’s Black Riders: Origins of the Russian Secret Police“Nothing is true. Everything is permitted.” While it is unlikely the FSB will ever adopt a motto from the Assassin’s Creed video game…2d ago2d ago
AES Backwards: West Africa’s New Kids on the BlocL-R: Assimi Goita (Mali), Abdourahamane Tiani (Niger), and Ibahim Traore (Burkina Faso) at the first AES summit on July 6. (Source…Jul 13, 2024Jul 13, 2024
The Right’s New ArmyHow radical progressivism is resurrecting democracy’s greatest enemyJul 10, 2023Jul 10, 2023
Prologue: A Bloody FormalityA vastly over-simplified narrative of the Spanish Civil War, 1936–39.Jul 7, 2023Jul 7, 2023
SITREP: AfricaA Second Scramble for the Continent has come and gone — and the East won.May 29, 2023May 29, 2023
Debrief: Learning from History’s VillainsNow that the SADF series is out for the world to see, I think I have some explaining to do. The most important question first: Why cold…May 27, 2023May 27, 2023
Fighting Stretched Thin, Part IV: Strategy, Conclusions, and Bibliography.Edit: A commenter pointed out that I failed to include the sources I used for this publication. This error has been corrected at the end of…May 26, 2023May 26, 2023
Fighting Stretched Thin: Lessons from the SADF’s Border War, Part IThis is the first part of an essay I wrote on the South African Defence Force in February of last year. The inclusion of the SADF in Eugen…May 23, 2023May 23, 2023
