July 29th, 2026, in the Modern era, as the Wall Street Journal reports today’s news, the headlines are worth time-stamping as an archive — The politics (watch out for that left turn), and AI (oh open-source Anthropic), and historic wildfires in Europe (but nada about the clear and present security dangers of, uh, climate change) […]
Category: Provocation and Diversion
Trump says he needs another $500 (or $600) billion
On the Donald J Trump ‘Truth Social’ site, this past week the US President announced he would be calling for a vastly expanded military budget. He explained that he wants to build a ‘Dream Military’ … Here at Strategic Demands we say ‘no’ to billions and billions more for new conflicts, wasteful spending, and misdirected […]
Diversion, danger, and a deepening security crisis
Asymmetric war is not a modern phenomena. Throughout history tactics and strategies intended to drain the more powerful have been deployed. As a conflict extends, costs rise for the powerful. ‘Other’ threats are set aside. Provocations divert attention and now in our time we are presented with a threat far greater than asymmetric threats of Mujahideen-Jihad(ism)
