Harlan Ullman

Make no mistake. What Russia is attempting in Ukraine is shocking and awing. It is not Shock and Awe. I should know. In 1995, I chaired the group that originated the concept of Shock and Awe. But first, what were Russia’s aims and strategy in Ukraine? President Vladimir Putin laid out his demands for a […]

Vladimir Putin has not surprised the West with the recognition of independence and immediate deployment of “peacekeepers” into the breakaway Ukrainian provinces of Luhansk and Donetsk. But he has shocked it. The question remains what will be his subsequent actions and will he turn shock into awe with his next moves? And what should our […]

For the moment, the Ukraine crisis seems less tense as, reported, Russia has moved some of its forces from the Ukraine border back to garrisons. Some will suggest that perhaps this is a signal similar to the Cuban Missile Crisis of nearly sixty years ago. When Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev ordered his ships destined to […]

Before the US gets too bogged down in Ukraine, history offers a cautionary note for the Biden administration and the nation. On August 7, 1964, Congress passed with, only two dissenting votes, the Tonkin Gulf Resolution that consigned Americans to a decade’s long war it would lose in Vietnam over attacks by North Vietnamese PT […]

Last November 15, President Joe Biden signed the $1.2 trillion Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act). How much of that bill has already been spent so far? The public will be shocked and probably not surprised by the answer. But before providing that answer, the Act was intended to: Deliver clean water to […]

Make no mistake: Mind control is here and now and in ways, most people fail to recognize. The term “mind control” reeks of Orwell’s 1984 and a dystopian universe where humans are semi-automatons regulated by a higher authority resident in science-fiction movies. In reality, people are affected every day by lesser degrees of “mind control” […]

A year ago, I proposed six recommendations for the incoming Biden administration to consider as it developed its policies. The administration did not. As it begins its second year, on the current course, the administration is in or close to extremis. Inflation is at thirty-year highs. The filibuster seems here to stay. The Build Back […]

January 6 marked a day of reckoning in America. One year ago, rioters protesting the 2020 presidential election had stormed the US Capitol. Donald Trump was impeached for fomenting the insurgency and, then, acquitted by the Senate. A recent poll showed over 90 per cent of registered Democrats and 70 per cent of Independents believed […]

Whether or not schools, colleges and universities still issue report cards, one is desperately needed to grade how well or badly the United States is doing at home and abroad. Unfortunately, no adults seem to be around to ensure that necessary corrective action will be taken to rectify deficiencies and low or failing grades. Fortunately, […]

The arrival of Omicron and the extraordinary mutations that may have created a far more contagious and possibly lethal virus paints what could be a very grim picture for 2022. Thus far, Covid-19, A-D variants, will claim more lives than were killed in all the wars the United States has fought since 1776. Omicron threatens […]