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Col. Paul Yingling's seminal AFJ article calling out the systemic failure of American military leadership

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Good article. The US needs to start sharing some of the burdens of maritime security with its allies, especially in the Atlantic, so it can focus on the Pacific.

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Hackers aren't so cute anymore, are they?

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"The State Department took the unusual step of replacing the head of its Japan section in an attempt to calm a mounting furor over remarks about Okinawa allegedly made by the career foreign service official."

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"Philippines, Indonesia agree to seek cooperation over the Spratly and Paracel chains "

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"C.J. Chivers of the New York Times has an article today on the dangers of Libyan arms winding up on the black market, where they could make their way to terrorist groups. On the surface this might seem to be an argument against arming rebel groups fighting Qaddafi’s cruel rule. In actuality, it is the opposite."

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"Security analysts say the armed uprising in Libya poses a long-term security threat — that weapons looted from government stockpiles could circulate widely, including heat-seeking antiaircraft missiles that could be used against civilian airliners. "

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"The nightmare began in August with Blaster, a new kind of virus, which infected computers through their Internet connections, without e-mails or attachments, replicated on its own, and may have played a role in the recent blackout in the U.S. Northeast. A week later, things got worse: the sixth version of SoBig,a virus more sophisticated and cunning each time it appeared, was programming innocentcomputers to an unknown sinister end. In Finland, Michael Shnayerson learns how a ponytailed virus hunter, Mikko Hypponen, raced to defuse the threat—and how lethal these cyber-plagues can be."

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"Last summer, the world’s top software-security experts were panicked by the discovery of a drone-like computer virus, radically different from and far more sophisticated than any they’d seen. The race was on to figure out its payload, its purpose, and who was behind it. As the world now knows, the Stuxnet worm appears to have attacked Iran’s nuclear program. And, as Michael Joseph Gross reports, while its source remains something of a mystery, Stuxnet is the new face of 21st-century warfare: invisible, anonymous, and devastating."

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"But in spite of the seemingly inevitable and rapid diminution of U.S. eminence, to write America’s great-power obituary is beyond premature. The United States remains a highly capable power. Iraq and Afghanistan, as horrendous as they have proved to be—in a broad historical sense—are still relatively minor events that America can easily overcome. The eventual demise of empires like those of Ming China and late-medieval Venice was brought about by far more pivotal blunders."

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" there is a viewpoint in China that India isn't a very mature nation because they lack maturity in governance. Some might say that is like the pot calling the kettle black - and some might be right."

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Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates met his Chinese counterpart, Liang Guanglie, in Vietnam on Monday for the first time since the two militaries suspended talks with each other last winter, calling for the two countries to prevent “mistrust, miscalculations and mistakes.”

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But suggesting that the U.S. is unclear about what China’s intentions are with regards to its DF-21D anti-ship ballistic missile seems like a bit of a red herring. Despite some difficulties in diplomatic and military-to-military dialog, Beijing’s behavior and military efforts are perfectly comprehendible and understandable.

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"This sun-baked airfield was built atop Okinawa’s rocky coral by Americans during the cold war, but these days its roaring jets proudly display the red sun of Japan. "

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"The two U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents who were attacked in Mexico this week yelled out that they were American diplomats to their assailants, who nonetheless killed one agent and wounded the other in a barrage of gunfire, U.S. lawmakers and officials said Thursday. "

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"China has frequently been frustrated—sometimes justifiably—to see its investments in the West blocked on national security grounds. So perhaps it's satisfying to see Western companies now scrambling to understand the new national security review process for foreign investments in China that Beijing unveiled over the weekend. That doesn't necessarily make it good policy, though."

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More proof that there is too much misunderstanding out there about cyber security. I include myself in that statement.

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"Leaks also confirm that Arab states favor bombing"

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Oh, to be a fly on the wall. How bad is the flow of defectors over the Yalu these days?

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Huawei has a serious trust issue in America, and the way it pursued this deal hurt its cause.

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