Tag: Defense

Stevenson’s army, March 30

– IGs report on Ukraine aid.

– RUSI reports on Ukraine lessons.

-WaPo reports on Bibi-Biden split; Axios has more.

– Axios reports on how Zients runs the WH. Note that SecTreas Yellen attends the staff meeting.

-USD Kahl explains why no F16s to Ukraine.

-Trump think tank prepares “battle plans” for Mexico

– Senate votes 66-30 to repeal Iraq AUMFs, but McCarthy may not take House vote.

– Feds work hard to recruit young employees.

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Stevenson’s army, March 27

– Israel in turmoil.  US weighs in.

Senator blocks DOD nominations in abortion fight.

– Military Times looks at vaccine refusers.

– NPR tells of military interest in the Arctic.

– Breaking Defense says Turkey is losing interest in S-400.

– AP says China is winning friends in Utah.

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Stevenson’s army, March 26

– NYT says Asia is gearing for war.

– WaPo sees “five families” in the House GOP.

-Reuters sees US-China fight over undersea cables.

– NYT analyzes Biden-Netanyahu disagreements.

-Poli sci study funds independent redistricting commissions lead to 2.25 times as many competitive districts. Hooray!

– Conservative prof wants to change GOP primary system. Intriguing ideas.

– Marine reservist sees legal opportunity to expand “1202 authorities.”

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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Stevenson’s army, March 23

I am back from a week in Doha when I wasn’t posting, and Charlie is back from a few days away:

Back at my desktop and partway through the accumulated newspapers, here are some links.

– Stimson has a bunch of reports. I especially liked the “Chimera of Technological Superiority” paper.

– Lots of Iraq reflections [today is the 20th anniversary of the start of the US war]. Reporter John Walcott was right.  As was Jim Fallows.

– A Marine calls for a more family friendly military personnel system

– SAIS prof Ed Joseph sees a Kosovo deal.

– US News said US intell helped India against China.

– Fred Kaplan assesses the Xi-Putin summit. WaPo notes the absence of a pipeline deal.

– Two views on US aid to Ukraine: surprising success or much too slow.

– NYT analyzes DeSantis foreign policy.

– Max Boot sees return to 1930s GOP foreign policy.

– RollCall notes Biden’s high success rate with 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, 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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Stevenson’s army, March 11

– Chinese diplomacy secures Saudi-Iranian rapprochement.

– Some analyses.

Surprise in Israel.

– WSJ says China also winning in South China Sea.

Russia threatens Moldova.

– Lawfare piece sees mild congressional restraints on use of force.

– SAIS profs Barno & Bensahel analyze US military recruiting problems.

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Stevenson’s army, March 10

– Alerted by FT’s John Thornhill, I want to share the UK Defence Ministry’s commissioned Sci-Fi stories to help think about future warfare.

– Lithuanian intelligence says Russia can fight two more years at current pace in Ukraine.

– NYT reveals what Saudis want from US in return for normalizing relations with Israel.

– There still aren’t many budget details for defense and foreign policy. Defense News has this summary.

– And Indopacom has leaked its wish list.

– Politico notes European differences over China.

Max Boot confesses he has been wrong about foreign policy.

– WaPo earlier had interesting maps about US & Ukraine.

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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