Archive - Arming for the War We're In

"Cognitive Warfare" fails the cognitive test

The term is a step backward.

Nov 17 • Matt Armstrong

Photo Friday #8 (belated)

Three pics from a chilly morning “gravel” ride several years ago in Switzerland.

Nov 15 • Matt Armstrong

October 2025

Photo Friday #7

Oct 31 • Matt Armstrong

AI's Hallucinations

What I thought would be a simple task resulted in profoundly defective maps

Oct 28 • Matt Armstrong

Photo Friday #6

I’m going to make Photo Friday easier on me and post a single picture from now on (probably).

Oct 24 • Matt Armstrong

The Division of Korea: a roadmap for the cold war

In 1945, the US negotiated with itself to divide a peninsula unnecessarily while knowing the Russians could not be trusted

Oct 23 • Matt Armstrong

Photo Friday #5

Overlooking Lake Zürich

Oct 17 • Matt Armstrong

Forgotten history of the Wilbur J Cohen Building

There is so much more its story than being home to VOA since 1954

Oct 16 • Matt Armstrong

How it was possible to build and sustain public support for a war effort?

A question asked by American psychologist Gustave Gilbert to Hermann Göring at Nuremberg

Oct 13 • Matt Armstrong

Photo Friday #4 (belated)

Pictures from Tuscany.

Oct 13 • Matt Armstrong

Nothing good comes from a revisionist narrative spawned by a political agenda

For long time readers, the below note will be familiar.

Oct 5 • Matt Armstrong

Photo Friday #3 (belated)

The (formerly) local pond

Oct 4 • Matt Armstrong

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