Blogs and blogging

 According to the latest Snowden documents, concerns regarding the maintenance of US offensive and defensive advantages in cyber capabilities have motivated NSA targeting of the Chinese IT and infrastructure company Huawei. Western financial sanctions in response to Moscow's annexation of the

Two on Taiwan: an opposition party releases a report showing an alarming military imbalance with China (thanks Malcolm), and John Mearsheimer argues that China's rise is really, really bad news for Taipei. Critics of politically appointed ambassadors assume that professional diplomats are uniformly

Is the Pentagon needlessly antagonising Congress over its 2014 budget? James Joyner thinks so. Meanwhile, David Edelstein argues that the proposed cuts to frontline strength represent an attempt by the Obama Administration to credibly underscore its unwillingness to engage in extensive military

How Iranian academic nuclear research may have flowed into military applications. Larry Summers on America's turn towards a 'Downton Abbey economy'. CFR's multimedia guide tracking international responses to the world's armed conflicts has been updated. The seven habits of an effective Indonesian