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A Most Sordid Profession: Sanguijuelas, Garrapatas, Piojos, Capulinas, Lampreys

Posted on April 27, 2018 by Fred Reed

A few thoughts on our disastrous  trillion-dollar  military: It is unnecessary. It does not defend the United States. The last time it did so was in 1945.  The United States has no military enemies. No nation has anything even close to the … Continue reading →

Posted in Americana, Civilizational Collapse, Deep Thought, Evolution, Foreign Policy, Military

Herding Hamsters And Other Cosmic Reflections

Posted on April 16, 2018 by Fred Reed

Disordered thoughts on the National Cockatoo’s latest antics One:  The aghastment and horrilation about the terrible, appalling, shocking etc nature of gas warfare is nonsense. There is nothing unusually  hideous about the use of toxic chemicals. Hidous, yes, but not … Continue reading →

Posted in Foreign Policy, Military, Politics, Uncategorized

Diving Days: No vast political importance

Posted on November 2, 2017 by Fred Reed

The  Atlantic waters off Snead’s Ferry in North Carolina are shallow, maybe 125 feet to the continental shelf. Several  wrecks lie on the bottom, mostly in advanced stages of disintegration, sunk by U-boats in the early years of the war. … Continue reading →

Posted in Everything, Military

The Military instinct: The Human Race as Feral Dogs

Posted on October 19, 2017 by Fred Reed

As Washington bombs Afghanistan, Libya, Somalia, Iraq, and Syria, militarily threatens Russia, Venezuela, North Korea, and China, sanctions Cuba, North Korea, Russia, Ukraine, Iran..one may wonder: Why? Are wars about anything, or just wars? In modern times, a reason of … Continue reading →

Posted in Civilizational Collapse, Deep Thought, Everything, Foreign Policy, Military

A Vet Remembers: A Bad Mood, a Six-Pack, and a Typewriter

Posted on October 2, 2017 by Fred Reed

This column is on lactation and isn’t going to write a damned word until half-October. People are talking about some Vietnam series by Ken Burns, I think it is .I saw the original, so I’ll pass. But if we want … Continue reading →

Posted in Americana, Everything, Magazine Stuff, Military

Milk-Bar Clausewitzes, Bean Curd Napoleons: In the Reign of Kaiser Don

Posted on August 3, 2017 by Fred Reed

Why do those inadequate little men in Washington and New York dream of new wars? Because the empire is near a tipping point. Washington must either either start a war in Korea, or gets faced down by the North, its … Continue reading →

Posted in Everything, Feminism, Foreign Policy, Military, Politics

General Lee Speaks: Had it Figured Out

Posted on June 8, 2017 by Toadstool

“The consolidation of the states into one vast empire, sure to be aggressive abroad and despotic at home, will be the certain precursor of ruin which has overwhelmed all that preceded it.” Robert E. Lee The man was perceptive. Amalgamation of … Continue reading →

Posted in Americana, Civilizational Collapse, Everything, Foreign Policy, Military

Memorial Day and the Rising Gorge: More than I Can Take

Posted on June 1, 2017 by Fred Reed

Apparently I have missed Memorial Day by being on the road in Guanajuato. I gather I should have thanked Our Boys for their service to the exceptional nation. I will pass. My tolerance for nauseating twaddle has diminished with the … Continue reading →

Posted in Americana, Deep Thought, Everything, Military, Politics

The China-US Arms Race: If One Arm is Right, the Other Will Be Left, No?

Posted on May 18, 2017 by Fred Reed

This worthy and public-spirited column seldom dives into the thickets of military hardware, which it regards as excessively technical. However, the arms race between China and Washington is of enough gravity that its more exotic armaments may be of interest. … Continue reading →

Posted in Everything, Foreign Policy, Military

The Marine Corps, 1966: Not Too Many Snowflakes

Posted on May 4, 2017 by Fred Reed

This is criminally long. It will probably leave no  space on the internet for anything else. It was published in the magazine of Army Times in 1979. It describes a Parris Island that no longer exists. In fact it describes a world that … Continue reading →

Posted in Americana, Everything, Military

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