Tag: Taiwan
Stevenson’s army, January 12
– The US and others have launched attacks on Houthi positions in Yemen.
– WSJ has best details.
– Politico has background on planning.
– Before the strikes, BBC explained the downsides.
– The US explained with a presidential statement, a statement in the name of the still-hospitalized SecDef, and transcript of a briefing.
– Some on the Hill questioned the legal authority for the attacks.
Poor Tony Blinken. He gets a Time cover and story that reports how he keeps trying to settle the Gaza war.
But NYT reports how much he has been rebuffed by Israel.
David Ignatius sees a path to progress
And Graeme Wood says some pressure on Israel has worked.
In anticipation of the Taiwanese elections, the US Senate passed a resolution.
Pentagon IG reports problems tracking Ukraine aid.
NYT sees fight between political think tanks supporting Trump.
Like many of you, I have grudging admiration for Winston Churchill — admiration because of his leadership in WWII, grudging because of many other actions, such as Gallipoli, “aerial policing,” India and the Empire. But you gotta love him for his adventure as a soldier and war correspondent in the Boer war, as recounted in last week’s Economist.
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Stevenson’s army, January 11
– FT says Biden is sending SAIS Dean Steinberg and Bush NSA Steve Hadley to Taiwan after elections.
– WaPo says China is mapping Indian Ocean for sub warfare
– Bloomberg says US/Chinese war would cost $10 Trillion.
– Politico says NSC scuttled Biden trade initiatives
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Stevenson’s army, January 9
– Fred Kaplan says SecDef Austin should go. [I’m more concerned to know his medical condition. Presidents and certainly officials in the military chain of command for combat operations should not be afforded the same privacy regarding health as ordinary citizens.]
– Politico says Netanyahu is losing control.
– WSJ tells how Macron bungled French relations in Africa.
– NBC tells what AMLO wants from the US
– Intercept says CNN vets Mideast stories with Jerusalem bureau.
– SAIS prof Ed Joseph discusses Serbia’s election.
– Politico’s China Watcher backgrounds Taiwan’s coming elections
War on the rocks has good think pieces — on Iraq lessons for Gaza and on Army special operations forces.
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Stevenson’s army, November 24
-FT says senior officials dismissed detailed warning about Hamas attacks
– Taiwan opposition crumbles, WSJ says Beijing loses.
– WaPo says Russia & China plan tunnel to Crimea
–NYT doubts PA could govern Gaza
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Stevenson’s army, November 11
– NYT has interactive graphic on the Gaza tunnels.
– WOTR writer revisits his article on Israel’s urban warfare
– Prof Hal Brands analyzes Chinese strategies for Taiwan
Politico discusses the Trump plan for Gaza:
LET IT BURN: Trump has a plan for the Israeli-Palestinian conflict: just let it burn.
“You have a war that’s going on and you’re probably going to have to let this play out … because a lot of people are dying,” he also told Univision reporter ENRIQUE ACEVEDO last night. “There is no hatred like the Palestinian hatred of Israel and Jewish people. And probably the other way around also, I don’t know. You know, it’s not as obvious, but probably that’s it too. So sometimes you have to let things play out and you have to see where it ends.”
“Eventually there’s peace, because you’re going to have a winner and a loser,” Trump continued.
It’s as pure a distillation of EDWARD LUTTWAK’s “let it burn” theory as there exists. In his seminal 1999 Foreign Affairs article “Give War a Chance,” Luttwak wrote “an unpleasant truth often overlooked is that although war is a great evil, it does have a great virtue: it can resolve political conflicts and lead to peace … fighting must continue until a resolution is reached.”
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Stevenson’s army, October 19
– NYT says intelligence analysis points to errant Palestinian missile in hospital attack.
– Israeli TV channel reports on SecState Blinken meeting with Israeli cabinet
– Mark Cancian assesses US ability to help arm Israel, Ukraine and Taiwan.
– Jordan failures lead to talk of McHenry
– Brookings assesses erosion of US democracy
This was yesterday’s edition:
– There’s no legal authority for US combat operations to help Israel. HFAC chairman McCaul says he’s drafting an AUMF. More from Defense News.
– US secretly sent ATACMS to Ukraine. Background on the process from Politico and from NYT.
– NYT notes that until now Netanyahu has been a reluctant warrior.
– Tom Warrick has lessons for postwar planning.
– In Atlantic, Andrew Exum warns of misconceptions about Gaza war.
– You can’t beat somebody with nobody. Now there’s an alternative to Jordan, speaker pro tem McHenry. Jordan angered the centrists, especially the appropriators.
-Eurasia Group has big survey of US views on foreign policy.
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