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Eccentric and Idiosyncratic Commentary on Current and Military Affairs
2/28/2025 If Trump had been president in 1940: “Winston, Germany didn’t invade Poland, you did. We’ve spent too much money, and you haven’t said thank you enough. Hitler is offering…
2//24/2025 Donald Trump and MAGAworld have been screaming their heads off that Europe and NATO are dependent on the Unites States for their defense, and have not been spending enough…
2/21/2025 Purge among the Joint Chiefs of Staff and other senior military leadership. When do we stop talking about being on the verge of a constitutional crisis and admit we…
11/22/2012 Scott N. Hendrix is watching the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade, which just featured the US Air Force Band and Honor Guard. The HONOR GUARD could not manage to all…
2/13/2025 Apparently Donald Trump, President of the United States and Vladimir Putin, President of Russia are to meet and end the war in Ukraine. Ukraine is not invited. I would…
2/10/2025 I was just watching video of the Trooping of the Color — the spectacular parade held every year in June to celebrate the monarch of Great Britain’s birthday. The…
1/30/2025 There is a sort of life-cycle factor at play. Ukraine started the war with a smaller army that was better trained and much more motivated, the Russians started with…
Scott N. Hendrix, Ph.D. hendsn1@gmail.com Much of the discussion about auftragstaktik seems an example of what has been described as “Wehrmacht Penis Envy,” an infectious fetishization of the German Army…
10/15/2024 For the first two years of the war in Ukraine I was publishing periodic observations about the war. What follows below is my attempts to offer a larger perspective. …
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