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Stevenson’s army, afternoon edition

Why wait til morning when there are several really good articles to share?
– Politico says national security officials were blindsided by Trump’s Syria decision.
– Military author Mark Bowden found military officers troubled by Trump’s policies and behavior even before Syria.
-Here’s a chapter on Syria 2013 by former NSA Susan Rice.
-Peter Beinart reviews the Rice, Power, and Rhodes memoirs.
-Just Security has a primer on leaking to Congress.
– I also found interesting this piece on China at the UN.

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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