A behemoth (buh-HEE-moth) – from the Hebrew for “beast” – is something that is enormous, especially a big and powerful organization. In the Old Testament, the behemoth was a beast from the Book of Job – a primeval chaos-monster (king of the animals of dry land), the counterpart of the leviathan (king of the animals of the water). As I used it today in the brief about US / China relations: “We now find ourselves watching our politicians discuss the possibility of war against not one, but two military behemoths.”