Cold Hard Facts
Operations-Level Planners Use Data, Not Good Idea Fairies
The world today is not moved by propaganda. It is moved by the correlation of forces and means.
The two superpowers — The Russian Federation and The USofA — bear responsibility to allow mankind to develop peacefully without being obliterated. For the first time, Russia has singled out Europe as a separate strategic entity. Russians are ready now, for the first time, to sacrifice Europe for anything.
Today is between The Russian Federation and The USofA
The two big dogs don’t care about Chihuahuas such as Europeans. They have to figure out how to handle this situation today so we do not slide into nuclear conflict. And that’s what they are all the time out of sight.
If NATO goes to it against Russia [With what?], The USofA will let Russia finish off Europe. [IMO, this process is underway.]
— Andrei Martyanov
When I was in graduate school -- 1965-1969 -- we did volleyball on Sunday evenings. Mixed, guys and gals on the same team. One evening, as I was serving, I noticed that one gal across the net was utterly incompetent to handle a serve. So I served to her repeatedly. After several iterations, her team members told me not to pick on her. Several more iterations and my team members told me to stop picking on her. Everyone was unhappy at me. I told her team members to themselves step in front of her to handle the ball I served her. They didn’t like that. Everyone kept abusing me, except the gal I served to, interestingly. We finished the game quickly. My team won, taking all points to zero.
The next Sunday, I happened to be in a net position so was doing a lot of jumping up and down. On one jump, the teammates next to me went up next to me and hit my mouth with their elbows. I was stunned, fell on the floor, soon got up, and soon discovered a front tooth broken off. The one who I think broke the tooth -- I could not be sure -- said he was sorry, this was an accident but maybe also poetic justice had been done for what I had done to the gal the previous Sunday. I remarked that I had not broken her tooth or sent her to the floor. Everyone present jeered at me and dared me to continue the game. I did. But I did not go back for more games thereafter.
All of us were Seminarians in NYC at the then most prestigious Protestant -- in fact formerly Presbyterian, but then, as still, Ecumenical [Non-Denominational] -- Seminary in The USofA. The volleyball court was in the gym of the famous Rockefeller church next door. I graduated at the Seminary, received my Diploma. But I did not attend my graduation ceremony, which was held in the Sanctuary of said Rockefeller church. Nor did I alert faculty that I would not attend. I have never given a cent to that Seminary even though I consider myself one of her most loyal and productive sons.
