Since our earliest Social Studies classes in Junior High School the teachers talked about the ?political left and the political right?. However, to my recollection the only explanation I ever got for the terminology was that the British Parliament had the Liberals seated on the left side of the chamber and the Conservatives seated on the right. Nobody cared to go into more … [Read more...] about Political – Left to Right
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Save Lives ? Get a New Infantry Rifle
By: James M. McDonough Army Major General (Ret.) Robert Scales wrote an excellent article (Gun Trouble) in the January/February 2015 issue of the Atlantic Magazine. The thrust of this article echoes the complaints, pleas and curses of untold thousands of American infantry for the last fifty years. To wit: The M-16 rifle (and its latest iteration, the M-4 carbine) uses … [Read more...] about Save Lives ? Get a New Infantry Rifle
KENT?S LAW EXPLAINED
?A new and disruptive technology that shows great early promise will always take much longer to come to fruition than originally envisioned; but it will have more profound and unforeseen effects than could have been imagined.? - William H. Kent, PhDUnlike Moore?s Law which predicted the doubling of computer capabilities every two years as a function of the intense … [Read more...] about KENT?S LAW EXPLAINED
War Arabia and Persia: The Past and The Future
By James M. McDonough For USMilitary.comThere has been much uncertainty over the looming conflict between the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and the Islamic Republic of Iran. However, using a historical perspective it is possible to predict future actions in this region of the world. As the ?Kingdom of Saudi Arabia? and ?The Islamic Republic of Iran? are both 20th Century … [Read more...] about War Arabia and Persia: The Past and The Future