Be subtle! Be subtle! And use your spies for every kind of business. Sūnzǐ 孙子 (Sun Tzu) The Art of War When nations are in a shooting war, they use spies. When nations are in a trade war, they use spies. On Wednesday, April 2, 2025, US President Donald Trump declared a trade war on […]
While researching the work of my fourth great grandfather , William Pennell, while British consul in Bahia, and his vice consul, his nephew, William Follett, the question is what is the Brazilian side of the story? I did find an academic reference that showed the correspondence between the British Consul and the then government of […]
Back in the 1980s when I first embarked on historical investigations, the US State Department had its own analog, paper-based Wiki that covered almost every diplomatic dispatch going back centuries, millions of three by five inch index cards. And each told a story. It was amazing to go through those old cards to find what […]
