Tag: Taiwan
Stevenson’s army, September 30
After last night’s dispiriting display of socially-distanced mud wrestling, let’s turn to something completely different.
Two bipartisan congressional reports on important national security matters: a House panel on future defense and a task force report on arms control.
WSJ reports how China is taking control of various international organizations.
A retired Navy captain writes about Chinese actions in the Taiwan strait.
US Navy has moved ship to help Greece against Turkey.
SAIS profs Barno and Bensahel preview their new book about military adaptation.
Russian Duma goes remote because of Covid infections.
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Stevenson’s army, September 25
The panel set up to recommend modernization measures for Congress has approved a bunch of suggestions.
SFRC had hearing on aspects of F35 sale to UAE.
Washingtonian notes DC statehood would require a Constitutional amendment
WOTR has article on US relations with Taiwan.
Next week we talk about the budget. It looks as if the president is trying to to turn limited pilot program/test authority into a nearly $7 billion giveaway of $200 cash cards for prescription drugs.
There’s a lot of discussion about Atlantic article warning of election disruption. Scary.
CFR has new report on what to do about Venezuela.
Many sites –Politico, Axios, FP and others — have good weekly posts on China. Politico’s is especially interesting this week.
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Stevenson’s army, September 17
Today is the anniversary of the signing of the Constitution in Philadelphia in 1787.
Germany is offering the US a Nordstream2 deal.
Reuters first reported planned US sarms sales to Taiwan, now WSJ has more details.
RealClearDefense has more on nuclear weapons modernization — a topic in next week’s exercise.
NYT says Africom wants to expand US drone operations into Kenya.
WaPo reports reduced US journalist presence in China.
DNI now agrees to election briefings.
Vast KGB files declassified.
Brown study documents increased militarization of US police.
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Stevenson’s army, September 1
On this 81st anniversary of the Nazi attack on Poland that started WW2 in Europe, here is some news.
– US government has declassified the “6 assurances” the Reagan administration made to Taiwan. [Only the FT had the story, but here are the documents.]
– President Trump has routinely said, including last night, that he sent National Guard troops to Kenosha and calmed the situation. In fact, no federal action was taken, and the troops were deployed under an interstate agreement. Trump really doesn’t understand the law under which the Guard operates.
– NYT notes how few officers of color have been general officers in the Marine Corps.
– The Hill explains the crazy month Congress faces.
-House Democrats threaten subpoenas to get State/Defense testimony on Afghanistan.
– Opposition party won elections in Montenegro, with complications for NATO.
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Stevenson’s army, August 31
– I missed the strength of Trump’s support in 2016 because I didn’t follow social media. I still don’t, but I look fro journalists who do. So I flagged this NYT report about conservative dominance of Facebook. And I know from Pew studies that 43% of Americans get their news from Facebook. And Congress is using social media much more than in the past.
– I’ve regularly sent around the Military Times polls of service people on political questions. Their methodology makes the results suggestive rather than certain, but it is surprising to see the drop in support for Trump compared with 4 years ago.
– NYT today notes Taiwan’s military exercises and fears of a Chinese attack. I also commend USNIP’s speculative story about a possible US-Chinese war over Taiwan.
– Also see Politico’s column on how the Chinese view the US elections.
– I’ve never worked in the Pentagon building. [My two summers with the Navy Dept were in the old Main Navy on Constitution Ave.] So I was surprised to read about how technologically “retrograde” the building is.
– CNAS has good material on US sanctions policies globally.
– Breaking Defense reports on the new Unified Command Plan.
More later. I’m just beginning to catch up on the papers from last week.
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Stevenson’s army, August 14
French navy goes to help Greece against Turkey.
Chinese navy near Taiwan.
US seizes ships with Iranian oil.
David Ignatius praises UAE-Israel agreement.
Slate has more background.
I recently read Robert Draper’s excellent book on the start of the Iraq war. Here’s the NYT review.
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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