- 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 Crimea have had immediate ramifications for the Russian banking system. But could those sanctions backfire to Putin's advantage?
- In light of events in the Ukraine, Lawrence Freedman revisits the art of crisis management.
- Richard Garske takes on the argument that drones will substitute for manned systems, pointing to the enduring principles of complementarity in combined arms warfare.
- Taipei is slashing troop numbers and capping its defence budget. J Michael Cole asks: is Taiwan's military becoming too small to defend itself?
- Iran is apparently building a floating model of the USS Nimitz. Analysts suspect its fate is to be blown up as a propaganda stunt.
- Eastern Europe is increasingly relying on the inherent deterrence of NATO membership. But is the institution capable of credibly fulfilling this function?
- With US carrier cuts off the table for the time being, MacKenzie Eaglen and Byan McGrath argue that America needs even more flattops.
- Finally, while commentators frequently lament that drone and cyber technologies render warfare increasingly like a video game, Adam Elkus observes that it is the deterministic logic of videogames mimic our simplistic notions of strategic interaction.
Military & strategy links: Snowden, Russia sanctions, Huawei, Iran's fake carrier and more
Published 25 Mar 2014