Edward N Luttwak

Much of my work is more "military" than strategic and thus requires tactical and operational analysis before one can consider the theater level & finally grand strategy. But the technical level also counts, for which I must rely on experts: youtube.com/watch?v=zKFgFq…

Maxwell was never funded by Mossad . True he was Jewish and was still Hyman Binyamin Hoch when Montgomery pinned the Military Cross for unusual bravery in combat on his uniform in 1945. Also true he supported Israel as do all non-neurotic Jews. But Mossad goes for quieter types

Xi Jinping has ordered the construction of the world's largest dam on the Yarlung Zangbo in occupied Tibet whence it flows into India and Bangladesh as the Brahmaputra. I once saw its immense power in the Arunachal highlands. Earthquakes are possible, droughts likely. India?

The conspiracy theorists explain that Epstein worked for Mossad. It cannot be known if that is false. What can be known is that instead of his Manhattan town house he would have lived in a rented apartment, with no jet or private island, just taxis to Coney island.

At the UN, Iran denounces Israel for its "unprovoked.. attack against Iran of June 2025, an.. ....a serious and unambiguous violation of international law." But it hugely celebrates Iran's two massive missile bombardments of Israel in 2024, a tad inconsistent but at the UN...

Exemplary Editorial in Wash Post on the conspiracy theory epidemic, rooted in a) the paranoia of the resentful b) a Govt record of suppression of the truth and suggestion of the false incl the Iraq 2003 war I testified against citing simple ethnograpic facts. CIA ? Zero

Unity Mitford Rediviva

grateful for his name.

Amused by today's Washington chatter on Iran, in Wash Post & NPR but originating from resident "Tehran voices" Prof Vali Nasr & co. Today's offering: because they were wickedly attacked they might choose to go for a bomb ! So why all those centrifuges ? Was it for ice cream ?

The US Ambassador in Jerusalem complains that the Ministry of the Interior is uncooperative in processing the local administrative requirements of Evangelical entities. He himself is beyond any suspicion: his very serious charge requires immediate & thorough investigations ,

Going full Der Stürmer, Tucker Carlson displays an image of Epstein with an Israeli flag as the background, to imply that Epstein was a Mossad agent who lured US political leaders into illegal trysts with under-age girls, to subject them to Zionist blackmail.

During all the years of Arab Israeli wars from 1947 till 1974 no Arab government tried to kill any Israeli political leader or viceversa. But high authorities of the Islamic Republic of Iran have issued warrants for the murder of Donald Trump with substantial bounties.

Ayatollah Khamenei has congratulated Iranians at large on their great victory . True they won Columbia University but lost Lebanon and Syria. True they enlisted T Carlson but exhausted Trump's patience. The regular Iranian military who do shave can save the country....

Recent events remind us that an Intelligence Reorganization Act is badly needed, Too many agencies fragment information. They can be reduced to three. And one must focus on human intel , staffed by Americans interested in foreign parts w a language or two. CIA tech is good...

Bibi did not "let Assad go" . He fled to Moscow in fear of being tortured before being killed by the gents now trying hard to play nice..but who just cannot help themselves when there are non-Sunnis within range , Alawites, Druze, Ismailis. Only fools believed their promises

It turms out that Israel cannot coexist with the Caliphate extremists playing nice in Damascus after all, because they just HAVE to kill non-Sunni Alawites and Druzes. Israel cannot retain the loyalty of its own hard-fighting Druzes if it does not protect their brethren .

Assad's fall released Syria from its unhappy subjection to Iran's Twelvers. The winners were Sunni Islamists and Caliphate aspirants ready to kill Twelvers, Nosairis ("Alawites") and Druses. In need of US aid they promised to protect minorities. But the urge to kill prevails.

Social media provide infinite opportunities for gratuitous malevolence eg youtube.com/shorts/pcHaMGL… inspired by Khamenei's false claims of military success, --he even congratulated his fellow Iranians for having won a great victory --while broadcasting from a bomb shelter.

am amazed by the crass ignorance of Jews surprised by overt anti-semitism at Harvard, Stanford etc. Modern racial anti-semitism was born in central European universities when admission by written exams allowed entry to Jews. Even with indigent parents their grades were too high

In WP 07/13 A23 G Will presents S. Macedo and F Lee " in Covid's wake: How our Politics Failed Us". Senior academics became mobs against the opponents of lockdowns & A Fauci acted as China's operative to cover up his own key role, 100 Stanford academics denounced a colleague...

almost all Israelis are competent in English, as well as in Hebrew of course and usually in one other language--many can converse in three languages, or four.