'The boundary dispute notwithstanding, China has always had leaders who have been, on the whole, positively disposed towards India.'
Both sides continue to explore opportunities to advance their defense ties despite the challenges.
Appeals to justice resonate powerfully, as is evident in “The Verdict,” a must-see movie about a bedraggled, alcoholic lawyer arguing a life-redeeming case with the deck stacked against him. There’s a simple reason why most movies have happy endings: “We the People” want to believe that when the “System” is rigged by the wealthy and well connected, it’s still possible to win, at least some of the time.
Xi Jinping's dictatorship isn't what the end of history was supposed to look like.
New players are creating a more multipolar and complex Indian Ocean environment 
Numerical superiority allows China’s second and third sea forces to flood the maritime gray zone in ways that its neighbors, as well as the United States, may find very hard to counter.
The United States failed to stop China’s rise; indeed, it didn’t even really try. Moreover, during the process of its rise China reformed its economy without substantially reforming its political system. Over the past 15 years, China has begun to convert economic power into military power, and now fields one of the world’s most formidable military establishments. The question has become “What impact will China’s rise have on the global order?” The best answers here seem to be that China will maintain some elements of that order, while changing others to its advantage.
It can be difficult to separate the important from unimportant on any given day. Reflections mean to do exactly that — by thinking about what happened today, we can consider what might happen tomorrow.
As Pyongyang runs out of money for missile tests, expect more hacking. 
Originally published under the title "The Russian Attack Against America You Didn't Hear About."
Russia has deployed two additional S-400 batteries to the Russian Far East, according to satellite imagery analysis.
The evidence ranges from a new long-range Chinese missile to ramped-up European defense spending, an annual assessment of the world’s militaries finds. 
The National Defense Strategy does a service by getting the diagnosis right. But that is only the first step. To get the right prescription—the defense program—we will have to develop the operational concepts that link the ends sought with the means we can procure to achieve them.
Leaders are learners, and learners are readers.
In his brilliant book tracing the origins of the First World War, “The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914,” Christopher Clark says, “The protagonists were sleepwalkers, watchful but unseeing, haunted by dreams, yet blind to the reality of the horror they were about to bring into the world.” 
Peter Sloterdijk has spent decades railing against the pieties of liberal democracy. Now his ideas seem prophetic.
The first steps involve classifying an organization's data and then controlling who can access what based on their need to know.
Artificial intelligence (AI) has finally caught the Indian government’s attention.
The United States often brags about its military power, but how do we actually rank? World powers have gone to war over the centuries for a multitude of reasons, and we often use military strength to determine a country’s stability today. It’s harder to determine the best militaries in the world than you might think, but the Global Fire Power Index creates an annual ranking that takes a number of factors into account.
