A recent RAND Corporation report questioned whether China’s military—the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) — is even ready for a conventional war. The report highlighted logistical inefficiencies, lack of combat experience, and organizational weaknesses that could hinder China in a traditional…

There’s an old story that, sometime in the 1960s, NASA spent millions to create a pen that worked in space. American engineers worked for years on a high-tech marvel that could write in zero gravity. Facing the same problem, the…