Thanks. I’ve actually read your #51 a couple of times. To summarize, the success of an article V strategy is contingent on some as yet unrealized black swan event. It’s in effect a bit of a Hail Mary strategy. Hail Mary strategies, while stunning when they succeed, don’t succeed all that often. It also assumes a more or less unified response to the black swan event. Is that really a valid assumption?
Your post also seems to imply that an article V convention is the only viable strategy. I strongly disagree with that. There are other strategies on the table that are viable (more viable in my view) that are also not mutually exclusive to an article V convention. I make no secret of my advocacy of an internal relocation and concentration strategy as a way of achieving freedom and liberty. There are some advantages of such a strategy that are not immediately apparent, such as it separating the talkers from the doers. Another advantage of an internal relocation strategy is that it doesn’t preclude other strategies but rather allows you to enter into those strategies from a position of relative strength.
You close your post by noting that a general chooses his field of battle. Given. But I would also add that a general is wise to have a place of refuge to base his operations from.