- Sure, why not, they can afford it: Pakistan announces a huge military budget increase.
- Our thanks to Sir Humphrey at the British milblog Thin Pinstriped Line for his kind endorsement of The Interpreter last week.'
- 'Japan's present circumstances have made aircraft carriers both more useful and less affordable than ever.'
- New evidence that Syria's rebels have Russia's most advanced shoulder-fired anti-aircraft missile.
- The new issue of The Economist focuses on Germany, a reluctant hegemon in which debate about Europe's future is 'almost wholly absent'.
- Assessing North Korea's economy via satellite.
- Another nice timelapse video, this time of Ho Chi Minh City (h/t Alan Davies):
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