K Street & Green Bay Rd.
Musings from the main routes through the nation's capital and the North Shore of Chicago, respectively...
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Photo reblogged from The Economist
Daily chart: the world’s most innovative companies. A new report from Thomson Reuters rates innovative firms by analysing the success of their patent applications. Of the 100 companies in the list, 40 are from America, 27 from Japan and 11 from France.
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Link reblogged from Center for the Study of the Presidency & Congress
A little analysis for work from your faithful, yet very inattentive, blogger.
By Dan Mahaffee
The increasing assertiveness of Chinese foreign policy, specifically in the South China Sea, has driven the United States to look at rebalancing its military and diplomatic posture away from the attention that has been paid to the Middle East and South Asia towards the Pacific…
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Link reblogged from Petty Tyranny
Rob Ross’ fall 2009 International Security article “China’s Naval Nationalism: Sources, Prospects, and the U.S. Response” is, I humbly believe, one of the single best articles on China’s naval strategic culture. I base this assessment on two things. First is his persistent interviewing…
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No photoshop at the office, so this is my poor quality salute to the Georgetown Hoyas valiant stand against the Chinese military.
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Link reblogged from JEFFERSON REX
Shortlist.com explains:
Little Tao Tao was born to his captive-bred mother Cao Cao last year. To prevent him from getting used to humans, since his birth staff have only ever approached him while wearing completely inconspicuous panda suits and have observed him and his mother from afar. As such they are hoping that he will adapt to life in the wild.
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Patrick Mercer, a Conservative MP and former army officer, told the Daily Telegraph: “I find it strange that we are willing to use these sort of measures against the Irish yet when Englishmen step out of line and behave in this atrocious and appalling way, we are happy to mollycoddle them. If the police want cannon then they should be allowed to use them. I have used water cannon myself and I found them extremely effective.Today’s word of the day is “mollycoddle.”
(Source: Guardian)
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Quote reblogged from PoliticalprofFirst, some history. The Pentagon’s budget has risen for 13 years, which is unprecedented. Between 2001 and 2009, overall spending on defense rose from $412 billion to $699 billion, a 70 percent increase, which is larger than in any comparable period since the Korean War. Including the supplementary spending on Iraq and Afghanistan, we spent $250 billion more than average U.S. defense expenditures during the Cold War — a time when the Soviet, Chinese and Eastern European militaries were arrayed against the United States and its allies. Over the past decade, when we had no serious national adversaries, U.S. defense spending has gone from about a third of total worldwide defense spending to 50 percent. In other words, we spend more on defense than the planet’s remaining countries put together.Fareed Zakaria, The Washington Post. (via politicalprof)
A stunning figure indeed, but let’s not forget the global security responsibility that the U.S. has shouldered as other countries have looked inward.
Whether that’s the right choice for us is an entirely different debate, but it cannot be in our interest to retreat from the global stage and leave a vacuum behind.
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I can’t tell you how many people I spoke to today [yesterday] that had that same, distant stare that I saw in the September to December 2008 period…It’s that peer-into-the-unknown look that’s quizzical and confounded.William O’Donnell, head of U.S. Treasury strategy at RBS
