Monday NatSec Roundup

But there stood Hector,
shackled fast by his deadly fate, holding his ground,
exposed in front of Troy and the Scaean Gates.

• Reading Great Books with Colonels; Jackie Whitt’s reflections on teaching the Great Books course at the Army War College.
• Shatter the Nations, which sounds like one of the first good histories of the war against ISIS.
• Russia once again contemplating the construction of a couple new helicopter carriers…
• Ooh lasers! Although a friend of mine describes this as “giant ship shoots down model airplane with laser…”
• Interesting piece on corruption in Chinese military shipbuilding, although corrupt or not they seem to be able to crank out lots of ships…
• Early thoughts on the impact of COVID-19 on trends in armed conflict…