Chinese Military Strategy

An interesting article I found in an issue of The Economist was one on the current increase in Chinese military spending and a shift in it's military strategy. The United States' victories, using high-tech weapons, against the Iraqi army in the 1991 Gulf War and 2003 Invasion of Iraq showed the Chinese military strategists that a very large army was no longer enough to win. Chinese strategy has been shifted to an Anti-access/area denial focus, with scores of surface-to-air missiles, satellite killers, and anti-ship missiles. They are even believed to be in possession of a ballistic missile capable of landing a warhead on the deck of an aircraft carrier from thousands of miles away! This is designed to prevent United States intervention if Taiwan were to ever secede.

Right now I'm learning the Latin Language. I currently halfway through the first of the four books in the Cambridge Latin Course, meaning I'm essentially one eighth of the way through completing the course. I won't be posting comments in Latin anytime soon due to this. Before you go ahead, buy $50 worth of Latin textbooks and workbooks, study your brain out, and read Caesar in to original Latin, remember the following pros and cons: 
Pros:

• Latin is the basis for a large number of languages, including French, Spanish, Italian, Romanian Portuguese, and Maltese (I think). Knowing Latin facilitates the learning of the aforementioned languages, though if you want to learn any Slavic, Germanic or non-European languages you're out of luck.
• Several great authors wrote in Latin, such as Vergil, Julius Caesar, and Thomas Aquinas.
• It has been shown to boost SAT scores.
• There is some exceptional music written in Latin.
• Lingua Latina est optimus! (The Latin language is very good).

Cons:

• If you think that English grammar is confusing (which it is not), then Latin is not recommended for you. In my Latin textbook, there are tables upon tables upon tables showing the different forms of different nouns and verbs depending on their place in the sentence, whether they are plural or singular, and whether they belong to the first, second, or third declensions (nouns), or the first, second, third, or fourth conjugations.
• People might think you are a nerd, crazy, or have too much time on your hands.
• It does not have nearly as much practical application as some other languages.

Personally, I think that the pros outweigh the cons, but I'll let you be the judge of that.

I can haz nukes?

This weekend I used nukes in Civ V for the first time. I was playing as the Mongol Empire on chieftain difficulty, quick speed, medium world size and an earth world type.  Since I had conquered most of Europe, all of Asia, and bits of North America and Australia, and was in a golden age, I had an income of around 800 gold/turn. With this, I bought three or four atomic bomb units and nuked the Russians quite a bit.

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