Welcome to the War You Didn’t Notice: Living in Fifth-Generation Conflict Since 2019

There was no declaration. No troop movement you could point to on a map. No shock-and-awe campaign lighting up the night sky. And yet somewhere around 2019, the world shifted—and it hasn’t felt normal since. That’s because the battlefield changed. We are now living inside what military thinkers call Fifth-generation warfare. And unlike every war that came before it, this one isn’t being fought over land. It’s being fought over you.

We cannot go back in time to take advantage of opportunities we have already passed up

My good friend Robert Stacy McCain fisked an article from The New York Times, one which tried to make the case that American women postponing childbirth might still have children later in life. “Fertility delayed is fertility denied” is one of the great maxims of demographics. As a matter of statistical average, postponing parenthood means …

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A New Cuba

As of early April 2026, Cuba is experiencing a severe economic and energy crisis exacerbated by a near-total U.S. oil embargo, leading to nationwide blackouts and fuel shortages. A sanctioned Russian tanker recently brought a temporary fuel lifeline, while the government announced the release of 2,010 prisoners amidst mounting internal pressure and ongoing talks with the Trump administration

The Future of Armored Warfare in the Drone Era; Adapting to a Battlefield That Now Sees Everything

The romantic image of armored columns rolling forward under cover of smoke and artillery has been replaced by something far less cinematic: vehicles hiding, dispersing, and moving like hunted animals under constant aerial surveillance. Cheap drones—$500 quadcopters and $20,000 FPV kamikazes—are hunting million-dollar platforms with ruthless efficiency. The lesson is not subtle. If you can be seen, you can be targeted. If you can be targeted, you can be killed.

New EVs

electric vehicles

Even though Tesla has exhibited supremacy in electric vehicle development, the EV revolution got off to a bad start due to a few isolated, but well publicized, reports of car and cell phone battery fires. Hurting worse was the lack of conformity for charging stations/plugs. China and European car makers are expanding their increasingly better EV models while Ford, GM and Honda, being unable to catch-up with the technology, scaled back their battery-tech programs after Trump relaxed federal mandates.

The Modern Plato

As I was responsible yesterday for your overconsumption of wine, perhaps I can offer amends today.  Remember that in the discussion of the nature of a chair, Plato hypothesized that the form of a chair existed separately from the existence of any particular chair or of the craftsman who make them.  That form did not depend on space or …

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