Stevenson’s army, August 17

My SAIS colleague Charlie Stevenson distributes an almost daily news digest of foreign/defense/national security policy to “Stevenson’s army” via Googlegroups. I plan to republish here. If you want to get it directly, follow the instructions below:

– I’m really troubled by the efforts by Trump and Netanyahu to make US policy toward Israel a partisan matter. I think any member of Congress should be able to visit any country which receives overt US economic or military aid — and aid should be suspended or cut when they can’t.

– FSOs complain that Trump administration is naming far more political appointees than past administrations.

– Axios tells how USTR determined winners and losers from the China tariffs.

– BTW, some good news: the security clearance backlog has been reduced.

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