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Edifice of Trust Podcast

Sep 24, 2019

In his recent book (co-authored with Bing West), former Secretary of Defense and Marine Corps General Jim Mattis writes about his military career and the key factors for battlefield success. An important element is what he call the commander's intent. It is vitally important that all the troops under his command...


Sep 17, 2019

After forty plus years of economic expansion and growing prosperity, Chinese Present Xi Jinping finds himself in a dilemma. Economic growth has allowed China to regain much of its stature as a world power but only because the Chinese rejected communist ideals and principles to create a form of state capitalism...


Sep 10, 2019

America's decades long policy of engagement with China has been a failure. China has used our engagement and that of other developed countries to become, not only prosperous, but a formidable military power, a predatory mercantilist economic power and a technologically advanced oppressor of the Chinese people. The...


Sep 2, 2019

Thomas Sowell's 1999 book, The Quest for Cosmic Justice, addresses many of the issues we face today including identity politics, social justice and entitlements, income inequality, personal truth more important than reality (sometimes called being woke) and the rejection of American principles. The Edifice of Trust...