Monday linkage

• Japanese Prime Minister Hatoyama's personal views on the Futenma marine base issue, the single biggest issue in US-Japan relations at the moment.
• The converging worlds of journalism and think tanks.
• Thanks to World Politics Review for alerting me to news that Vietnam is buying a fleet of new submarines.
• Twenty-nine tips for bad writing about Afghanistan. I liked no.27: 'Totally ignore all of the literature on Afghanistan and then complain that nobody knows anything about something that is actually somewhat well researched. This allows you to fill an imaginary void with your bad analysis and then claim that it’s original and important.'
• I know I've been linking to Walter Russell Mead's blog a lot lately, but the guy is just so damn quotable. On Copenhagen:

...the Accord of Copenhagen is a catastrophe for European policy. On an issue that Europe has pushed for many years, one that in many ways encapsulates Europe’s distinctive view of where the world should be heading, Europe was irrelevant when the deal came to be made.