Good Reading

A much belated sharing of some of my latest blog finds. I’ve been tracking my blogs using Bloglines for a while now, so these haven’t shown up on my blogroll.

I Am Net-Centric offers good material on NCW. That the title always makes me want to exclaim “My wife and I are both Net-Centric!” a la Life of Brian, is a nice fringe benefit.

FAS runs an infrequently updated but heavy-hitting Strategic Security Blog, focusing on issues of arms control and weapons proliferation.

DEW Line gives great material on military acquisitions and procurement.

That’s it!

POSTED BY Wiggins ON 05.23.07 @ 10:07 am | 0 Comments

Status Quo China

An excellent point by Adam over at Simulated Laughter:

China, at this point, is ultimately a status quo power. It seeks to preserve the world system that has allowed it to prosper, and that world system is currently guaranteed by American military security and American-dominated diplomatic and economic institutions. China will seek to advance itself, but it will not overturn that system because doing so will hurt it more than it will hurt us.

Given China’s interest in maintaining Globalization IV, it makes sense that it should share some of America’s burden in securing it.

POSTED BY Wiggins ON @ 9:49 am | 1 Comment