Matthew Hill is a doctoral student at Cornell University's Department of Government.
- Is the US intelligence community too big for its own good? Some CIA analysts think so.
- Sino-Indian security relations haven’t been great lately. Now it looks like a media war has broken out.
- When it comes to assessing China’s grand strategy, Sydney Freedberg argues Beijing’s just muddling through.
- Regardless, the US Air Force isn’t taking chances: there are new preparations to disperse F-22s across the Pacific in case of a crisis.
- The news still isn’t great regarding the Pentagon’s other stealth fighter. The F-35 apparently has 363 production flaws.
- With US Quadrennial Defense Review just around corner, Europe would like to know what Washington’s strategic priorities actually are.
- Jay Ulfelder argues that we’re witnessing a systemic trend of state collapse in many parts of Africa and the Middle East.
- Post-Nairobi, here’s a summary of the smart takes on al-Shabab’s strength.
- Finally, a submarine appears to have surfaced out of a Milan street, in what is surely one of the more surreal marketing campaigns of recent years.