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Kevin McCarthy’s Proposed Trip to Taiwan, and his new Select Committee on China

(This essay is another in a series of papers that I have been commissioned to write for a group of private clients overseas. It is targeted…

Dec 11, 2022

Kevin McCarthy’s Proposed Trip to Taiwan, and his new Select Committee on China

Dec 11, 2022

The 2022 Midterm Election: What Happened, and What Next

“I think that it was a clear victory for ‘Team Normal’, and we have a huge amount of work to do.” ~ U.S. Representative Liz Cheney, in…

Nov 24, 2022

The 2022 Midterm Election: What Happened, and What Next

Nov 24, 2022

2022 Midterm Elections: How We Got Here, and The Road Ahead

(NOTE: This article was written for a group of foreign business people, and originally privately published with them in October 2022. For…

Nov 8, 2022

2022 Midterm Elections: How We Got Here, and The Road Ahead

Nov 8, 2022

How Much Longer Will the U.S. Support Ukraine?

Putin’s “Special Military Operation” in Ukraine is going about as well for him as it did for Hitler in 1943.

Nov 7, 2022

How Much Longer Will the U.S. Support Ukraine?

Nov 7, 2022

TRUMP’S END GAME

He knows he is not going to win his seemingly endless lawsuits.

Nov 22, 2020

TRUMP’S END GAME

Nov 22, 2020

ANYONE TAKING BETS?

Two years ago I posited that Trump would not be reëlected. I further added a “wild card” theory that he might even abandon his office…

Nov 15, 2020

ANYONE TAKING BETS?

Nov 15, 2020

When you’re bragging, you’re winning. When you’re explaining, you’re losing.

The Trump campaign have now reached a point where they are publicly acknowledging the painfully obvious…

Oct 19, 2020

When you’re bragging, you’re winning. When you’re explaining, you’re losing.

Oct 19, 2020

Coronavirus and the “Soft Revolution” to Come

I have three grown children. One of them lives nearby in the DC Metro region. She has already lived through the worst of the “first wave”…

Jun 27, 2020

Jun 27, 2020

PRESCIENCE

In the deep winter of 1992, on my way to begin graduate school at Kansas State University, I wrote this short essay as part of an…

Jan 18, 2020

PRESCIENCE

Jan 18, 2020

We don’t have funerals in combat zones.

Funerals are for the families back at the soldier’s home or final resting place. We, the “battle buddies”, have our own ceremonies to…

Dec 24, 2019

Dec 24, 2019

Harry Ramsbottom

Harry Ramsbottom

Retired military officer with combat service in Afghanistan, Iraq, and the Balkans. Former counterinsurgency intelligence instructor. Whistleblower.

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