The Alien Tort Statute, enacted aspartof the Judiciary Act of 1789, permits federal courts to recognize private claims in for a limited number of international law violations.
To be fully realized, they have to learn to see themselves aspartof a system and recognize how they are affected by and causing effects on the system and others within it, as they exercise agency.
As the last observation hinted, the Chinese recognize that information technologies are an integral partof the so-called RMA. Chinese strategists clearly identify the direct link between information superiority and victory in conflict.
And Republicans should recognize that much as they may dislike what Hagel said about the security policies of the Bush Administration, those policies became partof a big detour away from traditional Republican beliefs in small government and fiscal restraint.