Military Moves

A recent op-ed in the NY Times by Robert Kaplan describes the recent expansion of Asian militaries, most notably China, Japan, Korea, and India. All have been spending more money on their militaries for things like nuclear weapons research and their navies. The navies of some of these countries is growing larger than western european powers like France and England, who have cut their military budgets while these east asian countries have largely expanded theirs. It is hard not to be concerned a little when any country is beginning to focus and spend so much more money to arm itself and it is very disturbing to know that so many countries in one area is doing it. I do not wish to say that they shouldn't protect themselves or they don't have the right to do it, but we can only hope that these armies aren't being expanded to one day march on other countries or be used for imperial purposes(which some might argue is what the U.S. has done with its army in Iraq).