Jan 15, 2023
Since Elon Musk bought Twitter, we've learned much about how thoroughly the information environment has been corrupted and manipulated by politically-motivated actors in Big Tech and the US government. Does the regime change at Twitter herald a new era, or more of the same?
Oct 31, 2022
As the war in Ukraine enters its eighth month, both sides are digging in for a long, hard winter. After a series of Ukrainian successes, the Russians have increased the intensity of the conflict, knocking out civilian infrastructure and calling up hundreds of thousands of reservists to throw into the mix. Jocko and...
Jun 13, 2022
Columbine. Virginia Tech. Las Vegas. Parkland. Buffalo. Uvalde.
America has become the land of mass shootings. Jocko & Darryl
discuss what might be behind this, and what, if anything, we can do
about it.
Link to Atlantic Ditch Run 800 fundraiser for veterans, via the
Gary Sinise Foundation:
May 24, 2022
The war between Russia and Ukraine has slowed to a grinding pace. The lightning strikes attempted by Russia in the early days of fighting were blunted by a determined Ukrainian defense, and Russia consolidated & refocused its forces to battle the heavily-fortified Ukrainian positions in the eastern part of the country....
May 16, 2022
For most of history, and in much of the world today, there were no effective police, courts, prisons, or states. People and groups protected themselves according to the law of honor immortalized as the epitaph of the Roman consul Lucius Sulla: No friend ever served me, and no enemy ever wronged me, whom I have not...