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10 July 2012 14:46
- The Dutch parliament has voted to withdraw from the Joint Strike Fighter program, but does that actually mean anything?
- India will soon have a 'nuclear triad'.
- Infinity Journal is a title I had not previously heard of: 'an online, peer-reviewed “journalzine” concerned with strategy as the product of consciously linking ends, ways, and means.' (H/t Abu Muqawama.)
- The China-Japan territorial dispute is now an iPad game.
- The alliance debate we've been hosting as part of the Defence Challenges feature is also going strong at International Security Discipulus.
- Chinese hackers now targeting the Indian navy?
- How the PLA is adopting American 'precision operations' doctrine.
- Hugh White in East Asia Forum:
As its economy grows Indonesia will have more money to spend on increasing its air and naval forces, and it will have more need for them as Asia’s old US-led order is challenged by China. This could be bad news for Australia because it will increase Indonesia’s weight as an adversary. But it could also be good news because it will increase Indonesia’s weight as an ally.