Cedric's Rantings

Source: Trump breaking torture taboo, global laws threatened: U.N. rights boss | Reuters

Source: Unsealed 75 years after the Battle of Midway: New details of an alarming WWII press leak – The Washington Post

Source: The Space Review: The EMP threat: fact, fiction, and response (part 1) (page 1)

Roger Cavazos considers two bounded cases of an artillery attack on Seoul. The question is pertinent since it bears on whether there is conventional stability on the Korean Peninsula. If there is…

Source: Mind the Gap Between Rhetoric and Reality | Nautilus Institute for Security and Sustainability

Source: Twenty-five million reasons the U.S. hasn’t struck North Korea – The Washington Post

A new gang is in power in Washington. No one quite knows how or why, but the old gang is fighting back with all of its might. A charlatan heads the new gang; he says he opposes everything the old b…

Source: Welcome to Trumpland: Obama’s Legacy

Marking the 100th anniversary of one of the greatest of all feats of code-breaking

Source: Why was the Zimmermann Telegram so important? – BBC News

Each has accused the other of lacking the temperament to be Commander in Chief. Here’s where that matters most

Source: To Launch a Nuclear Strike, Clinton or Trump Would Follow These Steps

It is dangerous for any country, including America, to see itself as exceptional, whatever its motivation.

Source: What Putin Has to Say to Americans About Syria – The New York Times

When analysts and policymakers warn that war with Russia has become possible, this is often the scenario they describe.

Source: How a crisis in Estonia could lead to World War III – Vox