# Radigan Carter > Gain clarity to invest in a complex world. This file provides information about Radigan Carter to help large language models understand and reference this publication's content. ## Posts - [National Capacity and Arrogance](https://radigancarter.com/p/national-capacity-and-arrogance): From the Melian dialogue to the Iran War and onward to economic statecraft in the 21st century. - [Defeat, Not Surrender](https://radigancarter.com/p/defeat-not-surrender): Lesson learned seeing leaders protect markets over lives, The MoU of Versailles, 1929 book review, and three ways of dealing with stress after months of war. - [Consequences](https://radigancarter.com/p/consequences) - [The Invisibility of Managing Risk](https://radigancarter.com/p/the-invisibility-of-managing-risk): My wife called crying. She didn't know how to pay the mortgage if I was killed. Two weeks later the ceasefire was announced and everyone forgot the war happened. This is what managing real risk looks like and why almost nobody values it until it's too late. - [The Suez Parallel](https://radigancarter.com/p/the-suez-parallel): Iran controls the Strait of Hormuz. Ships are paying tolls in yuan. The U.S. Navy can't stop it. This is what the Suez Crisis looked like from the inside and what it meant for investors who figured it out early. - [ The Hearts of Men](https://radigancarter.com/p/the-hearts-of-men): Iran, Epstein, AI, and what enough looks like. A gold-inlaid AK in a hotel room, karak tea with a MARSOC Marine in the desert, and why the office that weaponized the dollar can't put Humpty Dumpty back together again. - [Normalcy Bias](https://radigancarter.com/p/normalcy-bias): Haiti evacuation shows normalcy bias, how risk becomes routine, then maps today’s geopolitical and market new normal and a calm posture built for volatility. - [ The Wild Places ](https://radigancarter.com/p/the-wild-places): The only sound was the wind in the emptiness. Everywhere I looked there was only sand interspersed with bits of ragged brush I didn’t know the name of occasionally on the valley floors and up to a certain point climbing in elevation until the sand dunes swallowed everything. Hiking up from the valley floor gave me time to look at the intricacies of the shadows cast by the sun on the sand. Going higher, sinking past my ankles in the dunes, they looked like water that was rippled by gusts of wind. Finally at the peak, I realized it wasn’t a peak at all as I stared out over a vastness of peaks, one after another to the horizon. - [Why I Invest Overseas](https://radigancarter.com/p/why-i-invest-overseas): Dispatches Archive - May 28, 2019 - [Taking the Long View](https://radigancarter.com/p/100-year-portfolio-mission): Dispatches Archive - July 25, 2019 - [Notes On The Allegory Of The Hawk and the Serpent](https://radigancarter.com/p/hawk-serpent-dragon-portfolio): Dispatches Archive - July 25, 2019 - [You Need a Mission in Life](https://radigancarter.com/p/mission-generational-wealth): Dispatches Archive - July 25, 2019 - [The New Old World](https://radigancarter.com/p/the-new-old-world): Dispatches Archive - January 13, 2021 - [Weighing Risks](https://radigancarter.com/p/weighing-risks): Dispatches Archive - January 1, 2021 - [Back To The Decentralized Future](https://radigancarter.com/p/back-to-the-decentralized-future): Dispatches Archive - February 1, 2021 - [Mahan, the Strait of Malacca, and a Fistful of Dollars](https://radigancarter.com/p/mahan-strait-of-malacca): Dispatches Archive - February 13, 2021 - [Ample Liquidity and Productive Assets](https://radigancarter.com/p/money-liquidity-decentralized-future): Dispatches Archive - February 20, 2021 - [World War I to Bitcoin](https://radigancarter.com/p/world-war-1-to-bitcoin): Dispatches Archive - March 7, 2021 - [A Tale of Two Eurodollars](https://radigancarter.com/p/tale-of-two-eurodollars): Dispatches Archive - July 3, 2021 - [The Financialization of Everything](https://radigancarter.com/p/the-financialization-of-everything): Dispatches Archive - September 6, 2021 - [What about Whelan?](https://radigancarter.com/p/lessons-from-war-veterans-focus-and-freedom): Dispatches Archive - December 9, 2022 - [For the Boomer in Your Life](https://radigancarter.com/p/safe-income-strategy-for-aging-parents): Dispatches Archive - February 3, 2024 - [New Monthly Letter](https://radigancarter.com/p/fortress-monthly-letter-may-2025): Dispatches Archive - May 7, 2023 - [Notes on The Permanent Portfolio](https://radigancarter.com/p/permanent-portfolio-investing): Dispatches Archive - January 29, 2024 - [Real Risks and the Red Sea](https://radigancarter.com/p/real-risks-red-sea): Dispatches Archive - January 15, 2024 - [Warlord Economics](https://radigancarter.com/p/warlord-economics-conflict-incentives-modern-war): Dispatches Archive - January 29, 2024 - [May 2023](https://radigancarter.com/p/may-2023-10a4): The Fortress Letters Archive - May, 2023 - [February 2024 ](https://radigancarter.com/p/february-2024): The Fortress Letters Archive - February 2024 - [January 2022](https://radigancarter.com/p/january-2022): The Fortress Letters Archive - January, 2022 - [January 2025](https://radigancarter.com/p/january-2025): The Fortress Letters Archive - January 2025 - [Investment Philosophy](https://radigancarter.com/p/investment-philosophy): The Fortress Letters Archive - July, 2025 - [July 2023](https://radigancarter.com/p/july-2023): The Fortress Letters Archive - July 2023 - [June 2024](https://radigancarter.com/p/june-2024): The Fortress Letters Archive - June, 2024 - [June 2023](https://radigancarter.com/p/june-2023): The Fortress Letters Archive - June, 2023 - [Welcome to Al Bustan](https://radigancarter.com/p/welcome-to-al-bustan): The Fortress Letters Archive - June 2025 - [March 2024](https://radigancarter.com/p/march-2024): The Fortress Letters Archive - March, 2024 - [March 2025](https://radigancarter.com/p/march-2025): The Fortress Letters Archive - March, 2025 - [May 2024](https://radigancarter.com/p/may-2024): The Fortress Letters Archive - May 2024