Author Archives: Harper

HARPER: WANG YI’S EUROPEAN ADVENTURE

China’s top foreign policy man, Wang Yi, was at the Munich International Security Conference and spent a week traveling around Europe. Before returning home, he stopped in Moscow, where he presumably met with President Putin. At Munich, Wang Yi announced … Continue reading

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HARPER: KIRKUS REVIEW PRAISE FOR THE PORTABLE PAT LANG

Kirkus Review has joined Publisher’s Weekly in praising Col. W. Patrick Lang’s anthology of strategic writings, The Portable Pat Lang. Excerpts from the Kirkus Review follow: “U.S. Army veteran and commentator Lang offers a collection of assorted writings on military … Continue reading

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HARPER: MUCH ADO ABOUT SOMETHING

Col. Lang sends his greetings as he recovers from an illness and is regaining strength. In the interim he has asked TTG and Harper to moderate the site. Commenting on the recent incident involving the Chinese surveillance balloon that traversed … Continue reading

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PUBLISHERS WEEKLY LAUDS PORTABLE PAT LANG

It’s a sign of humility that this illuminating collection from Lang, an Army colonel and retired head of the Defense Intelligence Agency’s global human intelligence service, isn’t titled I Told You So. In the many clear-eyed essays and other writings … Continue reading

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HARPER: BUY THESE BOOKS

Regular readers of this blog are well-aware of its importance as a voice for sanity at a time of great domestic and strategic turmoil.  Col. Lang has tirelessly hosted this Committee of Correspondence for the past 18 years.  During the … Continue reading

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The Human Factor: The Phenomenon of Espionage

by W. Patrick Lang ­­June 2022 — The just released second edition of Col. Lang’s classic work on the art of human intelligence is now available to order from Amazon or iUniverse.  Publisher’s Weekly’s Booklife calls The Human Factor, “A … Continue reading

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Dear Hearts Across the Seas: A Memorial Day Prayer

The following article by Pat Lang appeared in America magazine in 2006. Patrick Lang      May 29, 2006 “For 14 hours yesterday, I was at work—teaching Christ to lift his cross by the numbers, and how to adjust his crown; and … Continue reading

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HARPER: CAN PUTIN SAY `YES’?

After more than a month of fighting and significant losses, the Russians now claim they have redeployed to concentrate on the Donbas region, having “achieved the objectives of the first phase of the special military operation.” Yes, they are regrouping … Continue reading

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HARPER: IS PUTIN HOLDING BACK IN UKRAINE INVASION?

The deeply flawed execution of the February 24 Russian three-front invasion of Ukraine raises the question whether Putin has been surrounded in the Kremlin by “yes men” who are a Russian equivalent of the American neocons who spoke of the … Continue reading

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HARPER: SAUDIS GOT AWAY WITH MURDER

While it is certainly a good thing that President Biden signed a recent Executive Order mandating a speedy declassification of the thousands of pages of FBI files on Saudi Arabia’s involvement in the September 11, 2001 attacks, the other side … Continue reading

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