
New post up at Liberty Unyielding. Enjoy!
New post up at Liberty Unyielding. Enjoy!
A more solvable mystery?
New post up at Liberty Unyielding. Enjoy!
Breaching the peace.
Mariners and the specialty mariner press know it’s big. But mariners can’t fix this. It will take national policies to fix it, and non-specialist citizens therefore need to understand its importance.
So, I reiterate: this is big. After several years of preparations for this day (see, for example, here, here, and here), China has issued a unilateral order that foreign fishing vessels will have to obtain permits from China to fish in two-thirds of the South China Sea (SCS), an area in which China has long made excessive territorial claims. Continue reading “Chinese power move in South China Sea: This is big”
Backing into a maelstrom?
One of these days, the mainstream media will catch up with reality and start reporting things as they are. In the Libya intervention in 2011, the United States “led from behind” – France and Britain being the leaders out front – as a non-hostile kinetic military action sort of developed. Reporters and pundits might have learned from that event that the capitals to watch are those of Europe. They didn’t; but such appears to be the case again.
Britain, France
One watches Obama in vain. But according to foreign media, if one is watching David Cameron, one is seeing things actually happen. Continue reading “Britain taking lead on Syria?”
A difficult year.
Readers, 2012 was a doozie for TOC. There hasn’t been a year in my life when so many things came at me and my family so fast. I’ll catch you up just a little bit, as I have been away from the blogs for several weeks, and I know some of you are concerned.
The onslaught began in February 2012, Continue reading “The year 2012”