In What Ernst Jünger Can Teach Us About Awe, Sam Alaimo explains how the author of The Storm of Steel helped him reflect on his own experience of war.
‘Ernst Jünger’, he writes, ‘has a way of reminding me of memories I rarely take the time to resurrect. At other times, he helps me put words to memories I simply stored away in my knuckle dragger mind, a phase of life in which I was more concerned with accumulating experiences than I was on learning from those experiences.’
In Countering Russia’s Long-Range Drone Threat, Fabian Hoffman describes European efforts to develop fighter drones. In doing this, he reminds us of the (frequently forgotten) ‘need for detection and tracking capabilities that provide early warning and guide the intercepting projectiles to their targets’.
In the most recent episode of Fullbore Friday, Commander Salamander explores one of ‘history’s abandoned alleyways’, a special operation to disrupt the use of neutral territory to resupply U-boats operating off the coast of West Africa. (Kudos to My Favorite Amphibian™ for providing readers with lots of useful maps.)
In Antifa, Terrorism, and Political Warfare, John Robb compares today’s Antifa with its namesake, the short-lived Antifaschistische Aktion of the last two years of the Weimar Republic.
In the course of advising readers How to Get Hired by ICE, Raging Mandrill notes that Immigration and Customs Enforcement has been beefing up its presence in the vicinity of Seattle, New York, and New Orleans. This, he opines, reflects concerns that enthusiasts for illegal immigration will try to disrupt traffic passing through these ports.
In The ‘War Studies’ Problem, Secretary of Defense Rock bemoans the tendency of academic programs related to security to avoid ‘serious engagement with the study of war itself’.
“Kudos to My Favorite Amphibian™ for providing readers with lots of useful maps.” Indeed. As a Geographer and Artillerist I am, not surprisingly, also a confirmed cartophile. I deeply appreciate Commanders Salamander’s efforts.