Day: August 27, 2022
Stevenson’s army, August 27
Daniel Levy is President of the US Middle East Project, where you can find his full statement of August 25:
– NYT says Ukrainian civilian leaders want an offensive to break out of the current stalemate but military want to delay until new weapons are in hand.-
– WaPo has journal of Russian officer who has turned against the war.
– NYT has more background about US military in Syria.
– NYT explains concerns over humint information in Trump documents.
– NYT also has good chronology of the case.
– Fascinating annotated version of the FBI documents are in both NYT and in WaPo.
– In FP, Matthew Kroenig says IR theory predicts a great power war.
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