– Why is Russia showing restraint in Ukraine, NYT asks.
– Are US leaders thinking before they talk about Ukraine, Tom Friedman wonders.
– Did CIA director’s meeting with MBS solve anything?
– Can Congress be reformed? Retiring David Price has doubts.
– Is GOP divided over earmarks?
– Why hasn’t Biden ended the interagency fight over China tariffs?
– Is Russia losing on the electronic battlefield, as David Ignatius argues?
– What have we shipped to Ukraine? Breaking Defense answers.
– Why did we send mentally disabled men to fight in Vietnam?
My SAIS colleague Charlie Stevenson distributes this almost daily news digest of foreign/defense/national security policy to “Stevenson’s army” via Googlegroups. I 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).
Even without Trump's chaos, the expansion would be unlikely to last much longer. We are…
China will want to assert sovereignty over Taiwan. Israel will annex the West Bank and…
Power should flow from the choices of individuals, organized how they prefer. Forcing people into…
This is a cabinet of horrors. Its distinguishing characteristics are unquestioning loyalty to Donald Trump,…
Trump is getting through the process quickly and cleanly. There are lots of rumors, but…
I, therefore conclude with a line from the Monk TV series. I may be wrong,…