Tag: 2020 Election
Stevenson’s army, November 3
– Lots of out-of-state money flowing in.
– Defense firms back election deniers.
-15% swing to GOP by white suburban women.
– In review of book mentioned by brownbag guest, George Packer notes political violence in US 1917-21.
– Politico suggests Biden shouldn’t have shunned Chinese ambassador.
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Stevenson’s army, October 14
– NYT has important background on interagency debates before new order on Chinese tech.
– NYT also has details on US-Saudi pissing match.
– Axios has background on French West Africa policy.
– Military Times quotes conservatives arguing recruiting shortfalls are because the armed forces are too “woke.”
– US is punishing countries with child soldiers after waiving that sanction for years.
– NYT has short piece on subpoenaing former presidents, citing this CRS study.
– WaPo has details on the finally reopening Air & Space Museum.
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Stevenson’s army, June 5
– LA TImes says momentum is shifting toward Russia in Donbas.
– Ross Douthat says he can’t be a Ukraine hawk forever.
– Australian says China is winning in Asia.
– Together on a byline for the first time in decades, Woodward & Bernstein compare Nixon and Trump.
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Stevenson’s army, February 4
– WaPo has the best tick-tock on the raid that killed the ISIS leader.
– Fed Kaplan assesses how the war on terror is going.
– NYT reveals how Putin has sanctions-proofed Russia.
– US reveals more Russian planning for pretexts for Ukraine war.
-WSJ says even renewed Iran nuclear deal will leave it within 12 months of a bomb.
-State Dept approves new Mideast arms sales.
-Documents show Trump WH considered using NSA to gather election info.
– Wired says an independent US hacker took down North Korea’s internet.
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Stevenson’s army, February 1
– Summits lead to deals. Qatar’s leader met with Biden and won “Major Non-NATO Ally status” CNN has background. Qatar promised help with the Taliban.
– Archives confirmed what Politico and others reported previously: President Trump often shredded documents which by law should have been preserved; so they’ve been taped together.
– There’s also more evidence that Trump sought DOD or DHS to seize voting machines.
– North Korea is bragging about its missile tests.
– NYT looks for patterns in recent African coups.
– [This came up in class Monday] FT analyzes German internal debates over Russia and Ukraine.
– Location matters.Both Boeing and Airbus promise to build new tankers in US.
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Stevenson’s army, January 20
– NYT explains how & why White House walked back Biden statements on Ukraine at news conference.
– BTW,the CIA director made a secret visit to the region shortly before SecState Blinken’s trip there.
– After CODEL to Kyiv, Senators are planning Ukraine support legislation.
– CIA says Havaan Syndrome does not seem to come from a foreign power’s worldwide effort. CNN has one report; WaPo another.
– WH released a new directive on NSA role in DOD cybersecurity. I think WSJ exaggerates the significance. In my view, this is just the latest in an administration planned clarification of duties within government. The bigger problem, as Lawfare noted last month, is that the US now has officials with overlapped authorities and only one is legally an “officer of the United States” with real authority. This question of authorities is an important one we’ll talk more about in class.
– It’s hard to show unity when leaders are seated 20 feet apart, but Russia and Iran tried that yesterday.Look at the photo!
-Amy Zegart discusses the role of nongovernmental sources doing spying.
– A think tank studying presidential transitions has a report on the Trump/Biden change.
– Deja vu: GOP plans rerun of 1994 campaign to capture Congress.
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).
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