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Stevenson’s army, January 23

-Politico reports attacks on Houthis.

-Defense Priorities analyzes the options.

– Fred Kaplan  is encouraged by emerging Gaza peace plan.

– RollCall sees Palestinian aid as an issue.

-Semafor says Israel want 2km no man’s land in Gaza

– Iran hawks Gerecht and Takeyh say Iran doesn’t want a war

– NYT worries about tipping point in Mideast conflicts

– FP’s Steve Walt says in terms of foreign policy, it doesn’t matter whether Trump or Biden wins

– New reports on Trump on Ukraine and Trump on Taiwan [from Politico’s China Watcher:

TRUMP WON’T COMMIT TO TAIWAN’S DEFENSE: The likely Republican candidate in the November U.S. presidential election, Donald Trump, refused to commit to a U.S. defense of Taiwan in the event of a Chinese invasion attempt.

Publicly declaring his position on Taiwan’s defense would put him in “very bad negotiating position” with Beijing, Trump said in a Fox News interview on Sunday.  Trump laced those comments with complaints about the self-governing island’s dominance of the global semiconductor supply chain. “Taiwan did take all of our chip business … they took our business away. We should have stopped them. We should have taxed them. We should have tariffed them,” Trump said.

Lawfare summarizes new cyber laws.

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, with occasional videos of my choice. 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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