Day: September 9, 2019
Stevenson’s army, September 9
Several threads run through all the major stories on the Afghan peace talks: the president wanted a US troop withdrawal and a Camp David meeting where he could appear the dealmaker; Bolton favored only a partial withdrawal; Pompeo wanted the agreement and agreed to the meeting. The actual position of the Taliban and the Afghan government is disputed. NYT has the best tick-tock. WaPo has a good analysis of the internal dissent.
FT reports analysis by European economists that over one third of all foreign direct investment [FDI] is phantom transactions for tax avoidance.
SAIS grad John Gans notes how Henry Kissinger got back in Nixon’s good graces after a Bolton-like exclusion.
Defense News outlines the NDAA issues in conference.
Lawfare has an ingenious — and, in my view, too clever by half — proposal to allow the House unilaterally to cut off funds for unauthorized military operations.
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. If you want to get it directly, 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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