- The National Interest is hosting a detailed debate about the US AirSea Battle strategy.
- Mark Bowden in The Atlantic: how to think about drone warfare.
- What's behind the Indian Government's recent decision to impose capital controls?
- Newly released documents confirm CIA's role in the 1953 Iranian coup.
- The Iraq war has not cured America of neo-conservatism. It's in rude health in the Republican Party.
- In a country where lifelong employment is the norm, Japanese workers who refuse to take redundancy are not fired but sent to a chasing-out room.
- Singapore Airport sends Australia a message about infrastructure in the Asian century.
- 'For better or worse, violence usually provides the most definitive answers to three major questions of political life: statehood, territoriality, and power.'
Tuesday links: AirSea Battle, Singapore, Japan, neo-cons, drones and more
Published 20 Aug 2013
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