Tag: Defense
Stevenson’s army, January 26
– McConnell backs down on filibuster demand; Senate moves to get organized.
– Defense News says Eisenhower’s military-industrial-[congressional] complex is still in place.
And as a reader of broadsheet newspapers, I was intrigued by this report on typography.
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Stevenson’s army, January 25
NYT sees global links of far-right groups.
NYT also reports on China’s challenge to US in space. But their story is so long, they added a “takeaways” summary.
But US still sees a role for B52s.
WSJ notes China surpassed US in FDI last year.
Politico says OMB was “broken” by Trump politics.
Some Democrats want to pass stimulus bill by filibuster-proof reconciliation process. Punchbowl notes that takes a long time, starting with a budget resolution, first in 3 years. CRS has a new backgrounder.
Jim Fallows assesses the Biden inaugural address.
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Stevenson’s army, January 24
-WaPo notes that the Senate is still stymied by a failure to agree on new organizing resolution.
-NPR interviewed former Senate staffer Adam Jentleson about his new book condemning the filibuster. [Many of you know that I support the filibuster for strategic and tactical reasons, but I want to keep it safe, legal, and rare — by making it harder to start and prolong. I suggest filibuster opponents, now mostly Democrats, consider that the loss of just one Democratic Senator could, overnight, permit majoritarian rule by the GOP.]
WSJ now confirms what NYT and WaPo also learned — that Trump was narrowly stopped from using Justice to overturn the election results.
Vanity Fair reports Trump’s pressure on the acting SecDef in the final days.
TR does a FONOP.
I’ve long viewed Sen. Tom Cotton [R-Ark.] as Dean Acheson did Sen. Robert Taft [GOP leader in early 1950s]: “He has a brilliant mind, until he makes it up.” It seems that Cotton gilded his military resume.
NYT notes we have a serious GPS vulnerability problem.
Good read: I’ve just finished Peter Westwick’s fascinating study of the history of stealth technology. Like Paul Kennedy’s book on the problem-solving engineers of WW2, Westwick shows how middle-level technicians brainstormed, bargained, and compromised over issues and largely succeeded. I’ve also never seen a better case for funding alternate R&D programs instead of settling on a sole source.
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Stevenson’s army, January 23
– WSJ says China wants a reset with Biden.
– NYT says CCP was strengthened during pandemic.
– CSIS reports on China’s aggressive sea patrols.
-And its coast guard gains new powers.
-SecDef Austin confirmed 93-2.
Atlantic surveys presidential biographies.
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Stevenson’s army, January 22
Charlie Stevenson’s writes: “So what do you do when you see a picture of yourself — from 40 years ago — on the homepage of the New York Times?
Share it, of course.” If you don’t know who the person in the foreground is, you are young:
Both House & Senate voted overwhelmingly for the waiver for Austin to be SecDef; Senate vote to confirm will come Friday 1030. Fred Kaplan explains why.
NPR says many veterans were part of attack on the Capitol.
As expected, administration seeks extension of New START, which doesn’t require Senate approval.
Steve Coll warns of problems facing Biden in Afghanistan.
Last week I sent NYT article questioning the promise of hypersonic weapons. Here’s the study on which that was based.
Just Security has some good ideas for a new AUMF.
A bit of history: how a 1930s populist got de-platformed.
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Stevenson’s army, January 19
Several hearings today for national security nominees. Three former SecDefs and several other former DOD officials support Austin.
Defense News notes Mattis’ failure to understand civilian politics.
Two reports about extremists in the US military — from NYT and Military.com.
AP details the collapse of police command structure at the Capitol.
WOTR has good think piece about military traditionalists and futurists.
Trump’s “1776 Commission” reports that progressivism is like fascism. Thought you’d like to know.
My SAIS colleague Charlie Stevenson distributes this almost daily news digest of foreign/defense/national security policy to “Stevenson’s army” via Googlegroups. I plan to 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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