US Navy – An extremely well done, documentary, in-depth look at the Joint Strike Fighter competition.

• PBS Nova: Battle of the X-Planes
• PBS Nova: Transcript of show

Background – Iraq – A follow up to last week’s article on the administration’s plans for the Middle East after Iraq. – “The hawks think of themselves as neo-Wilsonian moralists. They really do want to change the whole world, through the use of, and the threat of, military force. That’s the whole idea. Whether it will work, and whether the American public will support it, is another question.”

• The New Yorker: Marching Forward