Recalling Flanders Fields
Memorandum Subject: War, Death, and Remembrance In Flanders Field To: All Readers and Interested Parties From: Greg Smith, Author Date: 1 November 2025 BACKGROUND: At the eleventh hour, on the eleventh day of the eleventh month of 1918, the guns fell silent. For four long years, the war that was ignited with a pistol shot […]
The China Problem
Memorandum Subject: The China ProblemTo: All Readers and Interested PartiesFrom: Greg Smith, AuthorDate: 21 October 2025 BACKGROUND: Throughout the Cold War, both the US and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) competed for global influence. Most of the competition was through diplomatic, economic and other indirect methods. Espionage was rampant on both sides, as […]
Russian Threats and Warnings
Memorandum Subject: Russian Threats and Warnings To: All Readers and Interested Parties From: Greg Smith, Author Date: 4 October 2025 BACKGROUND: From the 1950’s through the end of the Cold War in 1989, both the US and USSR regularly crossed airspace boundaries. Sometimes there were inadvertent crossings, while at other times the action was deliberate. […]
Mind Control and the CIA
Memorandum Subject: October NewsletterTo: All Readers and Interested PartiesFrom: Greg Smith, AuthorDate: 30 September 2025 BACKGROUND: Between 1952 and 1953, at the height of the Korean war, Soviet and Chinese officials claimed that the US and UN allies were using chemical and biological weapons. The claims were reinforced by coerced confessions made by captured […]
September Newsletter – Rethinking GWOT
Memorandum Subject: September Newsletter To: All Readers and Interested Parties From: Greg Smith, Author Date: 4 SEP 2025 BACKGROUND: America was roused to action on the morning of September 11, 2001. A group of nineteen terrorists hijacked four commercial airliners, flying two of them into the twin towers of the World Trade Center in New […]
Stalemate and Slaughter
Memorandum Subject: Intelligence Update (S2) To: All Readers and Interested Parties From: Greg Smith, Author Date: 17 AUG 2025 BACKGROUND: On July 28, 1914, Austria-Hungary declared war against Serbia after a Serbian nationalist assassinated Archduke Ferdinand. Russia and Serbia were allied and already mobilizing in anticipation of a war. Germany had previously pledged support to […]
The Atomic Age and Nuclear Nightmares
Memorandum Subject: Communications Update (S6) To: All Readers and Interested Parties From: Greg Smith, Author Date: 11 AUG 2025 BACKGROUND: Eighty years ago, the world changed in a flash. A new and terrible weapon of unimaginable power, developed in secret, was proven to be more than a theoretical concept. On July 16, 1945, at Trinity […]
A Dangerous World
Memorandum Subject: August Newsletter To: All Readers and Interested Parties From: Greg Smith, Author Date: 4 AUG 2025 BACKGROUND: Most of America is asleep or not paying attention to the dangerous situations occurring around the globe. During the month of July, several conflicts started, resumed, or intensified. The typical hot zones of Ukraine, Gaza and […]