Tag: Defense
Stevenson’s army, August 17
– Speaker Pelosi is calling the House back from recess to vote to “save the Postal Service.” This is mostly for show, of course, because the House has already passed, in May, the HEROES Act, with $25 Billion more for USPS. The Senate has never taken up the House bill.
– SecDef Esper ordered DOD planners to cut $2.2 billion in defense health care costs.
– Joint Doctrine planners envision a future battlefield with no lines on the map.
– Planned trade review talks with China were cancelled.
– Putin is ready to help Belarus.
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Stevenson’s army, August
– Former Ambassador to Russia McFaul says President Xi is not a Stalin.
– Nominee as Ambassador to Germany is anti-Jewish and worse.
– Iran policy on hold with Hook’s departure.
– Take note: what Flournoy would do as SecDef.
– You probably have to access this piece through the SAIS library or similar site, but I urge you to read David Gompert’s article in the new Survival [from IISS] “Spin-on: How the US Can Meet China’s Technological Challenge.” I have long valued Gompert’s analyses of defense issues and agree the US needs to boost government R&D in key areas to match China. He has the numbers and the suggestions.
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Stevenson’s army, August 10
– Senators Cruz and Rubio among those newly sanctioned by China.
– SecDef Esper says US troop numbers in Afghanistan will be below 5,000 by November.
– Lawfare writer says use of IEEPA for TikTok stretches law to breaking point.
– Dan Drezner sees world collapsing around Mike Pompeo.
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Stevenson’s army, August 7
So I’m back from a few days by a river, relaxing and canoeing. What did I miss?
– The Saudis may be developing nuclear capability.
– CIA isn’t helping GOP investigation of the Bidens. But the real issue it seems to me is to preserve exclusive responsiveness to the intelligence committees.
– Congress may block Trump drone sale policy.
– Provocative US official’s visit to Taiwan.
– We are trying to get Syrian oil.
– Esper may move US troops from Germany to Romania, Baltics, Poland.
– New book by CNN reporter says Pentagon withheld military options from Trump.
– Fred Kaplan has a good piece on Hiroshima,
AEI’s Norm Ornstein laments changes in the GOP over the decades.
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Stevenson’s army, August 1
Please join me in celebrating the anniversary of my home state’s admission to the Union in 1876, just in time to provide 3 electoral votes to the GOP presidential candidate, Rutherford Hayes, who won 185-184.
– NYT has more on the problems in the Postal Service that could mess up the elections.
-GOP speechwriter David Frum tells more about the post-election war game.
-FP reveals Biden has 49 working groups on foreign policy, involving 2000+ people.
-Politico says DOD will play a lead role in vaccine distribution.
– Africom says it’s moving its HQ. Just don’t know where.
– WSJ says Japan is moving toward a “preemptive” [i.e. first] strike option.
– CNAS has a good study on informal tools Congress has to influence defense policy.Conf
– FP says new NDAA has provision to reduce money laundering.
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Stevenson’s army, July 31
– Tata is out. Good.
– Diplomats push back at returning to offices.
– Postal Service cuts back just when it’s needed for elections. That’s one of several threats to the elections discussed in a good CFR session.
-CFIUS had increased workload in 2019. Here’s the official report.
– The USG didn’t run its pandemic playbook, as it should have.
– Intriguing idea: non-kinetic ASAT
– Back to normal: approval of Congress falls
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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