WIRED: Four Contradictions In Obama’s Defense Plan. “Sometimes the analysis in the strategy suggests a policy choice that the strategy actually disavows. Sometimes it walks back controversial points. Sometimes it makes pledges that sound sensible at first blush — but don’t actually make sense the more you think about them.”

UPDATE: Herschel Smith writes: “The ironic thing about your link of Spencer’s post on Obama’s new defense policy is that it could have been titled ‘another rube self-identifies.’ Ackerman was a big Obama supporter.”