Author Archives: Merrick "Mac" Carey

US Army Modernization And Transformation: Presentation By Merrick “Mac” Carey AUSA Global Force Symposium in Huntsville, Alabama Today the United States and the US Army are once again positioning for a two-front war, as we did in the Spanish American war, World War Two, and during the Cold War. The [Read More...]
The Microsoft Russian Hack Raises Major Questions For Policymakers In a legally required filing, Microsoft on January 19 disclosed that senior executives’ e-mail accounts had been hacked by “a nation-state associated threat actor” widely believed to be Nobelium, a cybercriminal group affiliated with Russia’s government. This is the [Read More...]
Lexington Institute: Statement on Hamas Attacks on Israel Sometimes events take place that are so heinous, so out of the realm of acceptable behavior that it is incumbent on all honorable individuals and organizations to speak out. Such an event occurred this weekend in Israel.  The Lexington Institute [Read More...]
The Commerce Department Clips Russian And Chinese Wings (From 1945) Long considered a Beltway backwater, the Commerce Department has become one of the central stages of national security policymaking. With the announcement that it would begin accepting applications for $52 billion in semiconductor subsidies that Congress approved last year as [Read More...]
Jefferson’s Political Revolution Thomas Jefferson was 33 years old when he wrote the Declaration of Independence, so it is probably too late for you and me to achieve such a notable level of fame. He also attempted, in his draft, to blast the [Read More...]
The Goodhart Rule (From The International Economy) In March 2021, Bloomberg BusinessWeek published an essay on economist Charles Goodhart’s 1975 law that “any observed statistical regularity will tend to collapse once pressure is placed upon it for control purposes.” The examples cited in the Bloomberg article are [Read More...]
FTC’s Surrender To EU Degrades U.S. Law And Delays Cancer Detection While President Biden pledges to fund scientific breakthroughs that will “end cancer as we know it,” his appointees on the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) are making unprecedented concessions to European regulators that will hamper early cancer detection. Every year, 600,000 [Read More...]
The U.S. Navy’s Arleigh Burke Destroyer: Success, and Insurance Policy (From The National Interest) The Arleigh Burke-class DDG-51 guided missile destroyer is the most capable surface ship in the U.S. Navy and is the workhorse of the fleet. Today, sixty-two of them roam the oceans, giving meaning to American “command of the seas” and [Read More...]
Has China’s Rise Peaked? (From The National Interest) Even though the Western mainstream view is that China is a military and economic dynamo that is quickly leaving America behind, the world may be turning against the Middle Kingdom, and Chinese leadership may be turning to a harsh brand [Read More...]
Jefferson’s Political Revolution Thomas Jefferson was 33 years old when he wrote the Declaration of Independence, so it is probably too late for you and me to achieve such a notable level of fame. He also attempted, in his draft, to blast the [Read More...]
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