Some years ago, I stumbled on a manual for military strategy. It argued that the struggle to control the flow of information to the battlefield is every bit as important as controlling the flow of food and ammunition. I never found that site again, but I keep thinking about it as our Dear Leader lashes out at the press, and his minions stifle the flow of information about what they are really up to.
Now, the fog of “alternative facts” is getting thicker than the air in Beijing… which is what we will get if the Trumpsters succeed in bringing our environmental standards down to Chinese levels.