Wednesday NatSec Roundup

Well, you know in the old days
When a young man was a strong man
All the people, they’d step back
When a young man walked by

• The Trump administration is pretty insistent about ratcheting up tensions with China. Houston consulate closed, along with all of the dramatic burning of documents. Purportedly in response to Chinese hacking of US vaccine data…
• The J-20B Mighty Dragon is almost unbearably cool.
• The spycraft of stamp collecting…
• Russia has finally decided to start trying to sell it’s new tank, the Armata. This had been in some question because of IP concerns, and the question now is how many tanks the Russians themselves will buy.
• Some interesting work out there on the “geriatric peace,” or the idea that old societies lack the interest and capacity in making war.
• You don’t want Nazis in your Special Forces, especially if you’re Germany…