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Chapter 3: Asymmetry Is the Oldest Strategy
Section I: Opening Provocation: The Strong Lose Because They See Only Strength Empires do not fall in spite of their strength. They fall...
john raymond
Jul 7, 20252 min read
Dear Jake Broe: Trump Lets It Slide—And That’s the Story
Jake Broe, in his latest Ukraine update , covers a whirlwind of wartime developments, culminating in a record-breaking Russian drone and...
john raymond
Jul 6, 20253 min read
GOP Voters in Texas Are Fucking Morons: Their Leaders Clearly Don’t Care About the People of Texas
Drowned, Washed Away, and Forgotten Texas was once again struck by deadly flooding. Torrential rains submerged entire neighborhoods,...
john raymond
Jul 6, 20252 min read
Chapter 2, Section VII. Conclusion: The Coordination Collapse of the West Begins with One Man
Trump's presidency was never just a national crisis. It is an international rupture. To understand his true strategic significance, one...
john raymond
Jul 5, 20252 min read
Chapter 2, Section VI. Trump the Chaos Node: Disruption as Treason in Asymmetric War
In symmetric war, the enemy faces you across the battlefield. In asymmetric war, the enemy sits beside you in your own command tent. In...
john raymond
Jul 5, 20252 min read
Chapter 2, Section V. Why Asymmetric Warfare Makes Traitor Generals So Dangerous
In symmetric warfare, the rules are straightforward. Two sides face each other with comparable means—troops, tanks, strategy, and...
john raymond
Jul 5, 20252 min read
Chapter 2, Section IV. Pillar One: Regime Security Is Just Strategic Selfishness
We often hear that autocrats obsess over "regime security." But this phrase—neutral and clinical—obscures the brutal simplicity of what...
john raymond
Jul 5, 20253 min read
Chapter 2, Section III. The Continuum of Selfishness: Why Not All Actors Betray
When we talk about betrayal, we often resort to cartoonish binaries: someone is either a patriot or a traitor. But in truth, loyalty—like...
john raymond
Jul 4, 20253 min read
Chapter Two, Section II: The Traitor General and the Byzantine Problem
How do we coordinate when one of our leaders is a saboteur controlled by a foreign power? This is the question posed by the Byzantine...
john raymond
Jul 4, 20253 min read
Chapter Two, Section I: Opening Provocation — What If the Buffoon Is Also the Traitor?
People argue endlessly over what, precisely, Donald Trump is. Is he mentally unfit? A malignant narcissist? A fascist? A grifter? A...
john raymond
Jul 4, 20252 min read
VII. The Lessons Never Learned
The War on Terror was not merely a military failure or a policy mistake. It was an epistemic collapse. The greatest strategic mistake of...
john raymond
Jul 3, 20253 min read
VI. Indoctrination and the Disappearance of “Sides”
In the age of asymmetric warfare, the traditional concept of warring "sides" begins to collapse. What replaces it is not clarity, but...
john raymond
Jul 3, 20252 min read
V. Russia Saw What We Refused to Learn
After 9/11, America launched a war that restructured its own understanding of power. But while we were busy bombing Baghdad and...
john raymond
Jul 3, 20252 min read
IV. Regime Security Over National Security: How Bush’s Self-Preservation Project Masqueraded as National Defense
After 9/11, the United States had an opportunity to rise above fear and respond with clarity, strength, and wisdom. Instead, what we got...
john raymond
Jul 3, 20252 min read
Section III: Bush’s Lie Was the Attack
We must dispense with the comforting fiction that war begins when the bombs fall. In asymmetric warfare, the war begins with the lie. The...
john raymond
Jul 3, 20253 min read
Section II: The Lamppost Problem — Fighting Where You Can, Not Where You Should
There’s an old parable about a drunkard who loses his keys at night and chooses to look for them beneath a streetlamp—not because that’s...
john raymond
Jul 3, 20253 min read
Chapter One: The War on Terror and the Manufacturing of Stupidity
How Bush Made Us Blind and Putin Used That Blindness to Gift Us Trump Section I: Opening Provocation — Why Didn’t We Get Smarter? How...
john raymond
Jul 3, 20254 min read
William Spaniel Gets Into the Asymmetric Game With No Lines on Maps
William Spaniel, long celebrated for his clear and rigorous modeling of traditional military conflict, has—perhaps unwittingly—entered...
john raymond
Jul 2, 20253 min read
Lev Parnas: Good With Smoke, Poor With Mirrors
I mean no offense, I seek only clarity... Lev Parnas is an insider, but not a mastermind. He knows the smoke—the shady deals, the...
john raymond
Jul 2, 20252 min read
As a Democrat and a Republican: What I Want Is Not Hard to Understand
It is time to return to a true and equal center for the people. People have spent so long dividing the world into tribes—blue vs. red,...
john raymond
Jul 2, 20252 min read
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