Tag: State Department
Stevenson’s army, June 14
– FP details administration efforts to kill Iran nuclear deal before the election.
– And it wants to undermine Missile Technology Control Regime in order to sell drones.
– Politico says Foreign Service is still disproportionately Ivy League
– Hudson has a good roundup on South Asia..
– NYT says GOP Senators have a common theme — bashing China.
– WSJ’s Michael Gordon surveys US civil-military tensions.
– Fred Kaplan critiques Trump West Point address.
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Stevenson’s army, June 9
– Esper and Ryan are open to renaming military bases. Urging them on is Gen. David Petraeus.
– Erdogan says he has a deal with Trump on Libya.
– New bill would prevent Trump from using nuke against a hurricane.
–State Dept in DC reopening June 15.
-Reuters says senior officials blindsided by Germany troop withdrawal announcement.
– NDAA markups beginning despite few hearings.
– Prof. Edelman and others see China and Russia practicing “strategic corruption.”
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Stevenson’s army, May 22
I’ve told the class that Congress doesn’t make strategy but often outsources that task to the executive branch. Last year in the NDAA Congress asked for a China strategy. Yesterday, the WH sent it to Congress. I haven’t read it yet — 16 single-spaced pages, after all — but China hawk Josh Rogin likes it.
Heritage Foundation says China’s buildings in Africa are likely bugged.
Lawfare writers have some valuable suggestions on how to create a cybersecurity czar.
Ed Luce of the FT sees Pompeo as “Trump’s Baghdad Bob.” NYT sees Pompeo’s personal strategy to become president as feature of his secretaryship.
NYT says Turkey is winning in Libya.
WSJ says doctors on the TR urged evacuation before Crozier message.
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Stevenson’s army, May 19
– WH vs CDC
– Pompeo vs State IG
– Trump vs US warriors in Afghanistan
– Trump vs WHO
– China hawks vs truth
Also note: Dexter Filkins on the twilight of the Iranian revolution
Think tank analysis of the disinformation war by Russia, China, Iran
In an article on the Flynn case, note this historical reminder: The idea that federal prosecution is exclusively an executive-branch concern is not accurate. The public prosecutor was generally a far less significant government figure throughout the late 18th and most of the 19th centuries than it is today, and most definitely not seen as an inherent bearer of executive power in 1789. The British common-law tradition was one of private prosecution. Although a variety of public prosecutors appeared during the colonial period, private prosecution in the United States persisted throughout much of the 19th century. The early version of the public prosecutor in the United States was considered a judicial officer. In Joan Jacoby’s 1980 The American Prosecutor: A Search for Identity, still a leading history of American prosecutors, she explains: “At the beginning of the nineteenth century in America, the district attorney was viewed as a minor figure in the court, an adjunct to the judge. His position was primarily judicial, and perhaps only quasi-executive.”
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Stevenson’s army, May 18
– I strongly favor a rapid development of an effective and safe vaccine against Covid-19. We all do. But I’m not persuaded that the White House is doing that. On Friday the president announced Operation Warp Speed. He named the head of the Army Materiel Command as “chief operating officer” and a former top official at GlaxoSmithKline as “chief advisor.” HHS put out a press release promising major activities. But I can’t find anywhere an executive order empowering this WH committee to give orders or allocate funds or do the things an executive agency needs to do. Government needs execution and execution relies on authorities.
– NYT has more on the Pompeo activities that triggered an IG investigation by the now-fired State Dept IG.
– Space Command launches a bidding war for its new HQ. [I’ll bet AF gets the announcement out before Nov 3]
– Politico tells what life is like at WH nowadays because of the coronavirus.
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Stevenson’s army, March 30
– Pres. Trump said yesterday he hopes the country can be “back to normal” by June. British health officials said social distancing could be needed until September. Meanwhile AEI & Hopkins experts have a phased, conditions-based plan for dealing with the pandemic that looks reasonable. Here’s the actual document. What it requires is work every day to restore and expand health services to monitor the disease.
– WSJ says companies need federal guidance in allocating medical supplies.
– Army Corps of Engineers is looking at convention centers as temporary hospitals.
– NYT says China’s epidemic monitoring system failed because of political tampering by officials who didn’t want to send bad news to Beijing.
– NYT reports on France’s forever war in the Sahel.
– WaPo’s Jackson Diehl says Pompeo is doing a terrible job .
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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