Circuitous

This post almost certainly will not be as well-organized as I wish it could be. I feel that the topic is of great importance, but I am unconfident of my ability to organize an argument, and I am painfully aware that I know far less about the topic than I ought to. Consequently, I welcome dismissive comments as well as substantive ones – part of what I need/want to do is learn more about the topic, and I’m having trouble even figuring out where to start. This will all become clear in a bit, I hope.

[Read more…]

NOFORN//TS//SCI Unredacted

Classified materials and their handling appears to still be a news story. Back in 2016, I wrote a bit [stderr] about Clinton (Hillary)’s personal email server, which was accurate as far as I could make it, but that story has been somewhat shaded by recent mis-handling stories. Having to watch journalist and lawyers on the topic can be extremely painful, because of my constant awareness that the information about how classification regimes work is out there and all you need to do is a day or 2 of research.

[Read more…]

Ignorant Pontificating

I’m going to declare this up front: I have no private knowledge about this topic; my beliefs are formed by a lot of study of the topic since 1978, a lot of strategy gaming, and a lot of news reading. Naturally, any commentary about nuclear strategy is going to be either a) ignorant except for open source material or b) muzzled by secrecy. I.e.: Those that talk about this stuff are ignorant, those that aren’t ignorant are silent.

[Read more…]