A recent report published by the Japan Times has stated that now under Kishida’s government the days of Japan’s military being dependent on the US are over: Taken together, Abe’s policies marked a historic shift in Japan’s defense policy and regional standing. No longer would Japanese security be a matter of wishful thinking, willful blindness […]
U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Mark Milley recently stated that it would be extremely difficult to completely drive out the Russian military from Ukraine. He added that believes that eventually both parties will be brought to the negotiating table. So much for helping Ukraine to win this war. As we read in the Japan […]
There is a great distance that we put between antiquity and now. We imagine the ancients looking like the actors in movies like Troy and 300. But reading Julius Caesar’s account of his conquest of Gaul, one sees parallels with the modern world. In antiquity, there were oligarchs, just like today, and there was also […]
