Tag: Defense
Stevenson’s army, July 30
– LA Times has a summary of Robert Draper’s new book on the Iraq war. [I’m happy to say I just got a copy from my newly reopened library.]
– I have a piece debunking the “wag the dog” theory. Yes, foreign policy decisions including use of force, are often driven by domestic political considerations, but the US just doesn’t start wars in presidential election years.
–DOD now sees protesters and journalists as “adversaries” in mandatory training manuals.
– The Gang of 8 are feuding over what to tell us about foreign interference in the election.
– DOD announced withdrawal of troops from Germany. Fred Kaplan has a good critique.
Reading between the lines, it looks to me as if DOD is slow-rolling the matter, making it easy to reverse course after the election.
Daily Beast reports on all the dark money flooding into our elections this year.
Congratulations to the NYT editor who wrote the line saying the tech execs who testified yesterday all wore “trust me suits” and ties.
Breaking news: the quarry for the Stonehenge stones has been found 15 miles away. Still not know is how they were transported 4500 years ago.
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Stevenson’s army, July 29
– SFRC Democrats blast Pompeo for hurting State. Their report.
– Former DHS head Chertoff says agency has been “hijacked” for political purposes. New Yorker has close look at DHS budget.
-US cooperates with Japan on East China Sea
-Jim Steinberg co-authors critique of China policy.
-James Palmer offers Asian war metaphors to supplant Thucydides.
–CNAS has new proposals for 5G.
– Army War College prof defends strategy of “not losing.”
– Retiring Army officer says retired 4 stars shouldn’t make political endorsements.
– Dean Cohen urges us to memorize poems.
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Stevenson’s army, July 21
– More federal agents to more cities.
– Bolton unleashed.
– Risks of war with Iran as Netanyahu prepares for a Biden presidency.
Senate hearing for controversial USD[P] nominee.
– Are we doing too many FONOPS?
– How China fudges its statistics.
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Stevenson’s army, July 20, late edition
More hot news on a hot day. The administration is planning to send federal agents to Chicago and perhaps New York as it has to Portland. Lawfare says they are claiming an intelligence mission — to protect monuments and statues.
Just Security has discovered that AG Barr has done this sort of thing before and bragged about it.
In other news, Dan Drezner gives a barely passing grade to Pompeo’s Unalienable Rights Commission
A group has a bipartisan list of suggested defense budget cuts.
Reuters has a special story on Chinese amphibious capabilities.
Brookings has a new site for its China assessments.
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Stevenson’s army, July 20
– Politico has a long piece trying to show that SecDef Esper is stronger and more independent of Trump than earlier reports suggested. But it has mixed anonymous assessments from inside the Pentagon. It says NSA O’Brien is angling for the job. It says CJCS Milley is domineering over Esper.
– NYT has more on the whistleblower complaint against SecState Pompeo
– NYT excerpts a chapter from a new book about the Iraq war where Colin Powell tries to justify his UNSC testimony.
– NYT says lobbying is changing because of the coronavirus: they’re working mainly in home states rather than DC. But they are working to get special interest provisions in the next pandemic relief bill.
– Former cyber official makes the case against a WH Cyber Czar.
Stay cool. Look at the Celsius temps not Fahrenheit.
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Stevenson’s army, July 18
– What are federal agents doing on the streets of Portland? Is it “Barr’s Gestapo”? A law prof raises important questions.
– Politico says the administration is evading Congress in some new DOD appointments.
– Despite last year’s law blocking cuts, administration has plans to cut US forces in Korea.
– Everybody does it: WHO is hiring US public relations firms.
– Biden says he is now receiving the classified intelligence briefings traditionally given to major party nominees.
– Simon Kuper of FT calls for some US introspection.
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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