- The 2014 US Quadrennial Defence Review has been released.
- There have been responses from the DC think tanks, including the right-of-centre American Enterprise Institute and the left-of-centre Center for a New American Security. For an alternative perspective, see Kori Schake at War on the Rocks.
- With respect to the Crimea crisis, Walter Russel Mead argues that US energy exports will be of little use in offsetting Russian influence in the short run.
- Meanwhile, a number of US naval assets have begun to converge in the vicinity of the entrance to the Black Sea, including the carrier USS George HW Bush.
- Adam Elkus argues that strategists need to stop seeing artificial intelligence and robotics in terms of sci-fi tropes, and instead grapple with the real computational grammar these systems are imposing on modern warfare.
- The relationship between a changing climate and international security isn't just speculation – just look at the rise of Genghis Khan.
- Cyber-theft of defence industrial secrets isn't just a Western problem: hackers may have stolen secret documents on Russian-Indian military aerospace ties.
- At Arms Control Wonk, Mark Hibbs analyses Japan's evolving policy on transferring its weapons-grade plutonium to US.
- Finally, Vice magazine has a surprisingly revealing set of video dispatches from the Ukraine and Crimea. Check out the series here, and see an example below:
