The Post-Partisan Emporium

  Bracing for Impact John Michael Greer I think it was Lenin who said that there are decades in which nothing happens, and then there are months in which decades happen. It’s a useful reminder that the pace of historic change is not smooth. We’ve all seen immense changes take place over the last few decades, but in the industrial world, at least, most of them have happened slowly.  Recent headlines suggest, though, that the pace is picking up to a remarkable extent. A brief survey of the landscape of crisis ahead of us may thus be helpful. As I write these words, to start with, Russian forces on the eastern front of the Russo-Ukrainian war have pushed their way through the Ukrainian lines and are moving to encircle the fortress city of Avdeevka, the linchpin of the Ukrainian defenses in the western Donbass.  At the same time the war between Israel and the Hamas militant movement is blazing, as 300,000 Israeli troops converge on the Gaza Strip while Israeli and Hezbollah forces exchange

  Wars and Rumors of Wars An Assessment and Advice for the Managers of GAE LIBRARIAN OF CELAENO The logic is inescapable; war is coming.  The managerial regime that currently governs the US survives through global rent seeking and manufacturing demand for dollars which would become unfeasible in a multi-polar world.  Ukraine is a melting glacier of a country that will soon release devastating floodwaters across Eurasia and the battle has now shifted to preparing the public for a reality it has been shielded from since WWII- the empire demands a sacrifice.  The rub of course is how to make it happen. Most of you reading have by now at least heard of  The US Army War College Quarterly: Parameters  paper “A Call to Action: Lessons from Ukraine for the Future Force.”  Written by Katie “nothing says ‘serious’ like authoring a paper under a diminutive” Crombe and John A. Nagl, the paper spells out what the US Army has learned since the SMO began.  The central lesson is that the US Army, not