The most surprising thing I read yesterday

While Tom Ricks is away from his blog, he has selected a few of his favorite
posts to re-run. We will be posting a few every day until he returns. This
originally ran on March 20, 2009.

In the year 2000, the PLA [People's Liberation Army] had more students in
America's graduate schools than the U.S. military, giving the Chinese a growing
understanding of America and its military."

(p. 27, 2008 Joint Operating Environment, a study by the U.S. Joint Forces
Command)

(Hat tip to my very smart CNAS colleague Nirav Patel on this)