Tag: Defense
Stevenson’s army, September 5
This seems right for Labor Day (courtesy of @ClydeHaberman):
-WaPo has a history of the holiday — established for political, anti-union purposes. FYI, the 1894 law also set Christmas as a federal holiday for the first time.
-Some Republicans are pushing for a convention to amend the Constitution. FYI, in the 1990s we were within 1 or 2 states for a similar convention to add a balanced budget amendment. A worried Congress passed a line item veto bill — that was soon ruled unconstitutional by the Supreme Court. Be careful: wholesale rewrites may contain too many extreme changes, and lose, as Chile’s new constitution did this weekend.
– NYT sees lots of low tech in Russian weapons.
– DOD seems divided over Africa policy.
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Stevenson’s army, September 3
– In addition to the regular pending bills, Congress faces September fight over new $47 Billion request for emergency spending.
– NYT says Biden democracy speech is linked to analysis that “MAGA Republicans” can be isolated from other GOP voters.
– Congress notified of new arms for Taiwan.
-WSJ says Chinook fires came from using mis-catalogued O-rings.
–Russia keeps NordStream closed.
-In Atlantic, two former officers blame generals for Afghan failings.
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Stevenson’s army, September 2
– Defense contractor lobbyists want boost for inflation.
– Appropriators plan stopgap until December.
– Axios says India has gone from buying 1% of Russian oil to 13%.
– State criticizes Iran’s response on nuclear deal.
– 50 in House also hit Iran deal.
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Stevenson’s army, September 1
– SAIS Prof Mark Cancian analyzes US aid to Ukraine.
– SAIS Prof Tom Mahnken discusses US-China tech competition.
– At Vox, Jonathan Guyer sees a possible Iraq civil war.
– Former SecDef Esper sees danger in extreme partisanship.
– Political scientists see more GOP use of unreliable information than Democrats.
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Stevenson’s army, August 27
Daniel Levy is President of the US Middle East Project, where you can find his full statement of August 25:
– NYT says Ukrainian civilian leaders want an offensive to break out of the current stalemate but military want to delay until new weapons are in hand.-
– WaPo has journal of Russian officer who has turned against the war.
– NYT has more background about US military in Syria.
– NYT explains concerns over humint information in Trump documents.
– NYT also has good chronology of the case.
– Fascinating annotated version of the FBI documents are in both NYT and in WaPo.
– In FP, Matthew Kroenig says IR theory predicts a great power war.
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Stevenson’s army, August 25
– Politico has rundown of the Sept fight to pass spending bills.
– FP reports Congress-executive branch fight over new foreign aid program.
– Taiwan plans increased defense spending.
– NYT has interactive maps on how China could blockade Taiwan.
– State Dept releases paper on Russian lies about Ukraine.
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