TOC Ready Room 27 October 2025: Two pings (Aircraft carrier to counterdrug fight off Venezuela; Geopol rhetoric versus actual results)
Peloni: A very important high level review of recent events in which US policy aligns actions in the Caribbean with policy shifts in the Middle East.
What’s wrong and right with the world of national security and power rhetoric.
J.E. Dyer, a retired Naval Intelligence officer, blogs as The Optimistic Conservative, Oct 27, 2025
Feature image: U.S. Navy photo by Photographer’s Mate 2nd Class Felix Garza Jr. (Via Wikimedia Commons)
These will be a pair of Ready Room notes on the headline topics. More people with each passing month seem to be catching up with the OODA loop of current events (while others like the Carlson/Owens fold are pegged on bizarre takes that have nowhere to go). And so much is always happening that it’s not a good use of time to try to write at length about most of it.
Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman meets with Palestine Liberation Organization Secretary General Hussein al-Sheikh at the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C., on October 4, 2022. [Photo by U.S. Department of State from United States – Public Domain, 



![Israeli Attack on Qatar. Photo via Youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XmRsgEq4v9g [Resized]](https://www.israpundit.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/Screenshot-2025-10-26-165950-678x381.png)


