Rana Mitter has his premise exactly correct. The 1937-1945 war in China is largely unknown and not long remembered. In 1943, Allied leaders decided that the campaign in China was second tier in their long-term plan to defeat the Axis Powers—Germany, Italy, Japan, and other minor players. Yet the Sino-Japanese war was critical to our […]
Monthly Archives: June 2014
The Sun’s Energy
The folderol re global warming, i.e. climate change, focuses, on-the-whole, on man’s pollution of the atmospheric. I would suggest that this notion is misguided. All energy and life on our planet emanates from the sun—a cauldron of nuclear fusion (H-bombs). Let’s explore how much of the sun’s energy reaches the earth—93 millions-miles distant. Astrophysicists calculate […]
Malaysia Missing Flight
It’s now thirteen weeks since Malaysia Flight 370—a Boeing model 777 aircraft disappeared. It’s not where the searchers heard the pings in the Indian Ocean: about one-thousand miles off the coast of western Australia. Searchers are at a loss. Flight 370 seems to have vanished into the ether, or elsewhere. Today, I received an email […]
Thoughts About D-Day, 6 June 1944
We thank and honor the men who landed on the Normandy beaches on June 6th 1944. All are heroes. I was fifteen years old when we heard a radio announcer blurt that the Allies had landed on the beaches in northern France. Involved were 130,000 Allied soldiers from USA, Britain, Canada, and the Free French. There was […]