Tag: China
Stevenson’s army, March 6
– Two stories reveal the nature of the fight in Ukraine. WSJ on Russia’s deadly attacks, NYT on trench warfare.
– Scholz says China won’t send Russia weapons.
– Iran promises IAEA to turn cameras back on.
– DOD worries that Chinese cranes can spy.
– Politico reprises earlier debt limit fights.
– House GOP boosts committee budgets.
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Stevenson’s army, March 3
– WSJ says Germany isn’t boosting defense as promised.
– Australian think tank says China leads US is key technologies. WSJ summary.
– WSJ sees US-EU clash over Iranian nuclear programs.
– Politico’s NatSec Daily says US won’t criticize India
– FP tells how Ukraine learned to fight
– WOTR has good piece on acquisition reform.
– Politico reports on administration WMD strategy.
Off topic but significant: it’s the phones.
And for fun, look at these maps.
Stevenson’s army, March 2
– WH releases its cyber security strategy.-
– Brookings assesses US support for Ukraine.
-Here’s a list of House China bills.
– But Politico sees softening of administration limits on Chinese investments
– Macron outlines France’s Africa policy.
– Hill reports on Iran’s nuclear capability.
– New Yorker reports on new CIA gym.
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).
Stevenson’s army, Febuary 28
– SIGAR has a new report on why the Afghan forces collapsed. There’s a summary by WSJ.
– NYT has long report on US training of Somali commandos.
– USTR has a new report on Chinese compliance with WTO
– Max Boot reports on Ukrainian corruption problems.
– NYT reports promised tanks are not arriving in Ukraine.
– More US troops in Thai exercises.
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).
– House GOP fights earmarks.
Stevenson’s army, February 27
WSJ first reported, others now follow, that Energy Dept now believes with low confidence that lab leak caused covid 19. Jake Sullivan notes there is still disagreement in intelligence community.
CID director Burns thinks China has doubts about invading Taiwan.
State Dept blames production bottlenecks for slow arms deliveries to Taiwan.
Politico Europe notes that Zelensky has weaknesses, not just strengths.
For some unexplained reason, he fired his top commander on Sunday.
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).
Stevenson’s army, February 22
– The White House has released a fact sheet on the Ukraine war, including embedded links to even more details.
– Politico has a good summary of new laws and policies to counter Chinese technology [relevant to week 7 exercise]
– Yahoo News says Russia plans to take over Belarus.
– Prigozhin accuses Russian military of treason.
– David Frum makes case for AMLO as an autocrat.
– WaPo columnist details GOP budget games.
– Dan Drezner skewers DeSantis foreign policy
– A footnote inspired me to read this article on how, except for US independence, the British won the war of 1775-83.
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).