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Stevenson’s army, February 4

– President Biden makes major foreign pol;icy speech this afternoon during visit to State Dept.

-Politico reports how he spends his days.

– WSJ notes that his China advisers are a “team of rivals.”

– The Axios weekly China report summarizes the many proposed approaches to China.

Last year Congress created an Afghanistan Study Group, probably with the intent or expectation that outside experts would question the Trump policy of rapid withdrawal. That’s how it worked out. The full report is here.
And the troop withdrawals from Germany are now on hold.
The Senate has approved a power-sharing arrangement much like what was done in 2001. Democrats now control the committee agendas. Here’s the new list of Democratic members.
New resource on congressional redistricting.

CNAS has a bunch of reports on Iran.

National Security Archive has compiled declassified report on Rumsfeld’s notorious snowflakes.

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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