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Stevenson’s army, June 18

– You don’t have to buy the 592-page book. The media have excellent summaries of the lowlights. Here’s WaPo; now NYT; Vox has a good checklist. BTW, NYT book reviewer calls it “tedious.”
Trump gave WSJ an interview to rebut Bolton.

-In what I see as a preemptive leak to protect Lt.Col. Vindman, somebody told the Post he would be on the O-6 promotion list and said they were worried that the President might strike his name.
Two curious articles about Israel’s dalliance with China — in FP and in Lawfare.
– Prof. Thornhill has piece on civil-military relations.

My SAIS colleague Charlie Stevenson distributes this almost daily news digest of foreign/defense/national security policy to “Stevenson’s army” via Googlegroups. I plan to republish here. To get Stevenson’s army by email, send a blank email (no subject or text in the body) to stevensons-army+subscribe@googlegroups.com. You’ll get an email confirming your join request. Click “Join This Group” and follow the instructions to join. Once you have joined, you can adjust your email delivery preferences (if you want every email or a digest of the emails).

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