Less Useful Each Year

Uber-analyst Thomas Barnett points out that a key intel assessment of China is "less useful each year."

The report wasn't that bad, just stunningly limited in its war-within-the-context-of-war mindset, which is par for the course. Having the Pentagon be our primary interpreter of China's rising power is pathetically limited, like interpreting a football game by only watching the field judge recite his calls But such is our 19-th century view of "power."