Writing & Thoughts
Reflections on naval history, political science, amateur radio adventures, and music.
The Pentagon released its first batch of declassified UAP files this morning. 162 documents from the FBI, DoD, NASA, and State, with more to come on a rolling basis. Videos, photos, eyewitness reports going back decades. Predictably, the internet is already running with it.
The FCC has published new rules in the Federal Register that will become effective for US Amateur Radio operators on 13 February 2026. These changes align US allocations more closely with international standards while maintaining some legacy channels.
Are air power and sea power comparable in their abilities to produce strategic effects? Air power and sea power are both fully capable of achieving great strategic effect.
For most of my adult life, I was a writer — just not a novelist. I knew how to research. I knew how to argue. What I had not yet learned was how to inhabit the past rather than simply describe it.
I was twelve years old when my father pulled a book off a library shelf and changed everything. Here is what I noticed, decades later: the shelf is not evenly stocked.
There is a moment, standing on a bridge at sea in the middle of the night, when the weight of command settles on you like the salt air itself. That is not knowledge you read in a book.