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Stevenson’s army, April 10

– In week 12 of the Conduct [of Foreign Policy] course, we’ll have an exercise where you try to coordinate administration responses to breaking news items. Some officials may push for a political spin. That happens in government, as WaPo discovered from  emails between officials at HHS bragging about getting changes in CDC announcements more favorable to Trump positions.

– OMB has the new skinny budget. It shows a small increase for defense, and a 12% increase for international affairs spending. A perennial fight over policies and budgets comes between service chiefs and combatant commanders, as Real Clear Politics reports.

– NYT considers Moscow’s motivations in military moves toward Ukraine.

– Profesor and former APSA Fellow Brian Alexander hosted an interesting program on changing norms in Congress. Take a look.

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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