There Will Be War is a landmark science fiction anthology series that combines top-notch military science fiction with factual essays by various generals and military experts on everything from High Frontier and the Strategic Defense Initiative to the aftermath of the Vietnam War.
Included in this volume are these short stories or essays.
- The Fog of War
- Ideological Defeat
- Battleground
- Surprise
- Nonlethal
- Abdullah Bulbul Amir
- Render Unto Caesar
- See Now, a Pilgrim Information in War Harmonica Song
- Galileo Saw the Truth
- By Thought Alone Doughfoot Sanctum
- Learning from Viet Nam
- Major Pugachov’s Last Battle
- A Glorious Triumph for the People Poems
- Ligdan and the Young Pretender
- Decisive Warfare: Retrospect and Prospect
- Crown of Thorns
- The Eyes of Argos
- The Highest Treason Friction in War
- Uncertainty and Defense Notes
To be a successful soldier you must know history. What you must know is how man reacts. Weapons change but man who uses them changes not at all. To win battles you do not beat weapons-you beat the soul of the enemy man. — George S. Patton (Epigraph to The Fog of War)
The third challenge is the degradation of man and society, primarily in the relatively developed and rich West. The West (but not only it) is falling victim to urban civilization living in relative comfort but also detached from the traditional habitat in which humans formed historically and genetically. The continuous spread of digital technologies, which were supposed to promote mass education, is increasingly responsible for general dumbing-down and increases the possibility of manipulating the masses not only for oligarchs, but also for the masses themselves, leading to a new level of ochlocracy. In addition, oligarchies that do not want to share their privileges and wealth deliberately endarken people and encourage the disintegration of societies, trying to make them unable to resist the order of things that is increasingly unfair and dangerous for most of them. They are not only promoting but imposing anti-human or post-human ideologies, values, and patterns of behavior that reject the natural foundations of human morality and almost all basic human values.…
The fifth source of tension in the world system – the above mentioned, almost instantaneous by historical standards, avalanche-like change in the global balance of power; a rapid decline of the West’s ability to syphon off GWP caused its furious reaction. The West, but primarily Washington, is destroying its once privileged position in the economic and financial sphere by weaponizing economic ties and using force in a bid to slow down the weakening of its own positions and to harm competitors. A barrage of sanctions and restrictions on the transfer of technology and high-tech goods breaks production chains. The unabashed printing of dollars, and now the euro, accelerates inflation and increases public debt. Trying to retain its status, the United States is undermining the globalist system which it created itself, but which has given almost equal opportunities to rising and more organized and hardworking competitors in the World Majority. Economic deglobalization and regionalization are underway; old global economic management institutions are faltering. Interdependence, which used to be seen as a tool for developing and strengthening cooperation and peace, is increasingly becoming a factor of vulnerability and undermining its own stabilizing role. — An Age Of Wars I by Sergei A. Karaganov
As the author says “But I urge the reader not to fall into panic and despondency. There are recipes, and some solutions are already in the making. I will speak about them in my next article.” That I will be reading and provide a link in one of my forthcoming posts.
A couple weeks ago I ordered more coffee from my roaster and when I received the order I found that he had sent me whole beans rather than the grind that i wanted. I wrote him and complained and he sent me what I had ordered and told me to give the whole beans to my friends. So I picked up the ground coffee this past Thursday and have been handing out free coffee beans.
I was also busy this past week removing POP! OS from the dual boot that I had set up with Zorin OS. There are a lot of posting on the Internet about removing one of the OS in a dual boot on a Windows machine but not much when the dual boot is on a Linux machine. I finally got some help from the Zorin Community; mostly from a someone in Germany that knew what I needed to do. I now have only the Zorin OS on my laptop.
I say only Zorin on there but I also have managed to get an Android OS on there. It is not a dual boot but is a Linux container. “A container image is a lightweight, stand-alone, executable package of a piece of software that includes everything needed to run it: code, runtime, system tools, system libraries, settings.” I don’t know what all that means but I know that I tried to install Waydroid along with POP! and couldn’t do it. I was able to do it with only the Zorin OS on Linux and now have the ability to run Android apps on my Linux laptop.
A can not run ALL Android apps on there now; Poplar Flow will not run there and none of the MobilityWare solitaire games will run on it. The apps that have an ARM file format will not run and then there are 3-4 other reason an app from the Play Store will not. The are a lot there that will run and I have a lot more available at F-Droid. However, now that I have a way to run Android apps on a Linux device I probably will only do it occasionally.