Tag: Defense
Stevenson’s army, February 19 and 20
February 20:
– US warns China about aid to Russia.
– FT notes lack of support for Ukraine in global south.
– US avoided UN fight over Israel/Palestine.
February 19:
– FT has two valuable articles. SAIS prof Mary Sarotte on Putin’s distortions of history and report on planned secret US talks with Taiwan [now exposed]
– Lots on Wagner group — from Politico, from WaPo
– CNAS has a new tracker on Russia developments
– AP poll finds reduced GOP support for Ukraine
– NYT notes new military competition in near space.
– WSJ said some DIA knew of UAPs in Trump admin, but didn’t raise alarms.
– Politico on Germany’s “shadow foreign minister”
– Eli Lake defends Iraq war
– Intercept has warnings for whistleblowers
– FWIW, revelations about Fox News.
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Stevenson’s army, February 16
– WSJ says Russia’s forces are depleted.
– Politico reports a private comment by Blinken calling Crimea a Russian red line.
– FT reports Latin American countries resist US calls for help for Ukraine.
– Steve Walt lists what Putin got right.
– Defense Priorities has a good collection of comments on Ukraine.
-FP has summary of the rise of China hawks.
-No surprise here: Politico says Chinese balloon is argument for increased defense spending.
– CBO report on the debt ceiling.
-I agree with this op-ed falling for defense budget to be split into capital and operational expenses.
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Stevenson’s army, February 14
– NYT says Ukraine order for aid groups to leave Bakhmut may be prelude to its own withdrawal.
– WaPo says US has warned Ukraine of problems sustaining aid levels.
– Politico says US won’t send ATACMs because of US inventory shortages.
– Moldova says Russia planned coup.
– Ian Bremmer doubts US sabotaged Nordstream 2.
– Fred Kaplan explains new search for balloons.
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Stevenson’s army, February 11
– Politico says administration is preparing defense budget bigger than this year.
– WSJ reports Moldova government collapse.
– WSJ says quake recovery is hurting Erdogan politically.
– Poll has new insights into extremists.
– AEI’s Kori Schake calls Biden foreign policy a “mess”
– RAND analysts lists Russian mistakes in Ukraine.
– RollCall notes how committees chairs bought votes.
– I mention tick-tock stories a lot. WSJ’s Ben Zimmer has derivation.
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Stevenson’s army, February 9
– Sy Hersh says the US secretly destroyed the NordStream 2 pipeline. He says that public comments by Jake Sullivan and Victoria Nuland and Biden that NordStream wouldn’t go ahead if Russia invaded Ukraine allowed the administration to call it a secret military operation rather than a covert operation requiring notification of Congress. The White House denies the story, but Hersh typically has many, many plausible details.
– CNN says the Chinese balloon was noticed and cited in intelligence reports but they weren’t treated as significant.
– US says the balloon could collect communications signals.
– NYT details an expected executive order limiting US technology investments in China.
– Trump’s final Acting SecDef has given a strange interview to the Hill.
-In WOTR, four airmen offer lessons from the air war over Ukraine.
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Stevenson’s army, February 5
– NYT has a ticktock on US decisions to shoot down the spy balloon.
– NYT also reveals the campaign that saved several LCS from decommissioning. [Proving again that where you stand depends on where you sit.]
– New Yorker explains GOP rift over Ukraine.
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